2 Kings 11:5
and ordered them, “This is what you are going to do: One third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.
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1 Kings 10:5the food on the table, how his officials lived, how his servants operated and how they were dressed, the clothes of the waiters, and the burnt offerings he presented at the Lord's Temple, she was so astonished she could hardly breathe.
2 Kings 16:18He took down the Sabbath canopy they had built in the Temple, as well as the king's outer entrance to the Lord's Temple. He did this to please the king of Assyria.
1 Chronicles 23:3The Levites over thirty years old were counted, and there was 38,000 in total.
1 Chronicles 24:3With the help of Zadok, a descendant of Eleazar, and Ithamar, a descendant Ahimelech, David placed them in divisions according to their appointed duties.
Ezekiel 44:2The Lord told me, “This gate will stay shut. It is not to be opened. No one is allowed to come in through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has passed through it. So it will stay shut.
Luke 1:8While Zechariah was serving as a priest before God, on behalf of his priestly division,
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:5-13
4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord , and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord , and showed them the king's son. 5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house; 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at… Read the whole commentary →