1 Chronicles 9:27

They would spend the night in their posts all around the house of God, for they were responsible for guarding it. They would open it each morning.

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And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.

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26But the four leaders of the gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the rooms and storerooms in the house of God.

28Some of them were in charge of the temple's equipment; they counted the articles when they were brought in and when they were taken out.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:30They also stood every morning to thank and praise Yahweh. They also did this in the evening

Jeremiah 35:4I took them to the house of Yahweh, into the rooms of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, the man of God. These rooms were beside the room of the leaders, which was above the room of Maaseiah son of Shallum, the gatekeeper.

Romans 12:7If one's gift is service, let him serve. If one has the gift of teaching, let him teach.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 9:15-35

Genealogies; the Employment of the Priests. ( b. c. 1400.) 14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; 16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites. 17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and… Read the whole commentary →

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