1 Chronicles 9:23

New International Reader's Version

These Levites and their children after them were in charge of guarding the gates of the house of the Lord. The house of the Lord was also called the tent of meeting.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:32

So the Levites carried out their duties for the tent of meeting and for the Holy Room. They worked under their relatives who were in the family line of Aaron. They helped them serve at the Lord’s temple.

1 Chronicles 26:12

Those groups of men guarded the gates. They worked under their leaders. They served at the Lord’s temple, just as their relatives had served.

1 Chronicles 9:22

The total number of the men who were chosen to guard the entrances was 212. They were listed in their family history in their villages. David and Samuel the prophet had appointed them to their positions. They appointed them because they trusted them.

1 Chronicles 9:24

The men who guarded the gates were on the four sides of the tent. They were on the east, west, north and south sides.

2 Chronicles 23:19

Jehoiada stationed guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple. No one who was “unclean” in any way could enter.

Nehemiah 12:45

The priests and Levites did everything their God wanted them to do. They made things pure and “clean.” The musicians and the men who guarded the temple gates also served God. Everything was done just as David and his son Solomon had commanded.

Ezekiel 40:45

The man said to me, “The room that faces south is for the priests who guard the temple.

Ezekiel 44:14

But I will still appoint them to guard the temple. They will guard it for all the work that has to be done there.