Bible verse
They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.
1 Chronicles 9:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Chronicles 9.
23 So they and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the house of the LORD—the house called the Tent.
24 The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.
25 Their relatives came from their villages at fixed times to serve with them for seven-day periods.
26 But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.
27 They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.
28 Some of them were in charge of the articles used in worship, to count them whenever they were brought in or taken out.
29 Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.
30 And some of the sons of the priests mixed the spices.
31 A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.
KJV
And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [was] upon them, and the opening thereof every morning [pertained] to them.
ASV
And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge thereof was upon them; and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.
ERV
And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge thereof was upon them, and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.
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