They were to keep watch over the Tent of Meeting, the Holy Place and the sons of Aaron their kinsmen for avodah in the House of Adonai.
1 Chronicles 9:23 - Tree of Life Version They and their sons were guards of the gates of the House of Adonai, that is, the Tabernacle. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they and their sons had oversight of the gates of the Lord's house, that is, the house of the tabernacle, by wards. American Standard Version (1901) So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Jehovah, even the house of the tent, by wards. Common English Bible So they and their descendants were the gatekeepers guarding the LORD’s house, that is, the tent. Catholic Public Domain Version as with them, so also with their sons, at the gates of the house of the Lord and the tabernacle, by their turns. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the Lord, and the tabernacle by their turns. |
They were to keep watch over the Tent of Meeting, the Holy Place and the sons of Aaron their kinsmen for avodah in the House of Adonai.
These divisions of the gatekeepers by their chief men had duties corresponding to their kinsmen for avodah in the House of Adonai.
All these chosen to be gatekeepers at the gates were 212. These were registered in the genealogical records of their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their offices.
The gatekeepers were posted on the four sides, toward the east, west, north, and south.
He also stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the House of Adonai so that no one who was ritually impure for any reason could enter.
They kept the ceremonial functions of their God and the ceremony of the purification according to the command of David and of Solomon his son.
He said to me, “This chamber that faces toward the south is for the kohanim who keep charge of the House.
“Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the House, for all its service and for all that will be done in it.