1 Chronicles 23:28

New Century Version

The Levites had the job of helping Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Temple of the Lord. They cared for the Temple courtyard and side rooms, and they made all the holy things pure. Their job was to serve in the Temple of God.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:5

Solomon also built some side rooms against the walls of the main room and the inner room of the Temple. He built rooms all around.

1 Chronicles 18:17

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites. And David’s sons were important officers who served at his side.

1 Chronicles 23:27

David’s last instructions were to count the Levites who were twenty years old and older.

1 Chronicles 23:29

They were responsible for putting the holy bread on the table, for the flour in the grain offerings, for the bread made without yeast, for the baking and mixing, and for the measuring.

1 Chronicles 23:4

David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand Levites will direct the work of the Temple of the Lord, six thousand Levites will be officers and judges,

1 Chronicles 28:13

David gave Solomon directions for the groups of the priests and Levites. David told him about all the work of serving in the Temple of the Lord and about the items to be used in the Temple service

2 Chronicles 23:4

Now this is what you must do: You priests and Levites go on duty on the Sabbath. A third of you will guard the doors.

2 Chronicles 23:6

Don’t let anyone come into the Temple of the Lord except the priests and Levites who serve. They may come because they have been made ready to serve the Lord, but all the others must do the job the Lord has given them.

2 Chronicles 29:15

These Levites gathered their brothers together and made themselves holy for service in the Temple. Then they went into the Temple of the Lord to purify it. They obeyed the king’s command that had come from the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:5

Hezekiah said, “Listen to me, Levites. Make yourselves ready for the Lord’s service, and make holy the Temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove from the Temple everything that makes it impure.

2 Chronicles 31:11

Then Hezekiah commanded the priests to prepare the storerooms in the Temple of the Lord. So this was done.

2 Chronicles 31:2

King Hezekiah appointed groups of priests and Levites for their special duties. They were to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to worship, and to give thanks and praise at the gates of the Lord’s house.

Ezra 8:29

Guard these things carefully. In Jerusalem, weigh them in front of the leading priests, Levites, and the leaders of the family groups of Israel in the rooms of the Temple of the Lord.”

Nehemiah 11:24

Pethahiah son of Meshezabel was the king’s spokesman. (Meshezabel was a descendant of Zerah, the son of Judah.)

Nehemiah 13:9

I ordered the rooms to be purified, and I brought back the utensils for God’s Temple, the grain offerings, and the incense.

Jeremiah 35:4

Then I brought them into the Temple of the Lord. We went into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, who was a man of God. The room was next to the one where the officers stay and above the room of Maaseiah son of Shallum, the doorkeeper in the Temple.

Ezekiel 40:17

Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard where I saw rooms and a pavement of stones all around the court. Thirty rooms were along the edge of the paved walkway.

Ezekiel 41:26

There were windows and palm trees on both side walls of the porch. The side rooms of the Temple were also covered by a roof over the stairway.

Ezekiel 42:13

The man said to me, “The north and south rooms across from the private area are holy rooms. There the priests who go near the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings: the grain offerings, sin offerings, and the penalty offerings, because the place is holy.

Ezekiel 42:3

There was thirty-five feet of the inner courtyard between them and the Temple. On the other side, they faced the stone pavement of the outer courtyard. The rooms were built in three stories like steps and had balconies.

Ezekiel 44:14

I will put them in charge of taking care of the Temple area, all the work that must be done in it.