2 Chronicles 23:19
He set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
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1 Chronicles 9:23So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, even the house of the tent, by wards.
2 Chronicles 8:14He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 23:13-21
Joash Crowned and Athaliah Slain. ( b. c. 878.) 12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord : 13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason. 14… Read the whole commentary →