1 Chronicles 9:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 23:30-32 : 30 They also stood in a designated place every morning and offered thanks and praise to the LORD. They also did this in the evening 31 and whenever burnt sacrifices were offered to the LORD on the Sabbath and at new moon festivals and assemblies. A designated number were to serve before the LORD regularly in accordance with regulations. 32 They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the LORD’s temple.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
  • Rom 12:7 : 7 If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;
  • 1 Sam 3:15 : 15 So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the LORD’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 9:23-26
    4 verses
    85%

    23They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the LORD’s sanctuary(that is, the tabernacle).

    24The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides– east, west, north, and south.

    25Their relatives, who lived in their settlements, came from time to time and served with them for seven-day periods.

    26The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary.

  • 1 Chr 9:28-29
    2 verses
    82%

    28Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out.

    29Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.

  • 1 Chr 9:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

    19Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his relatives from his family(the Korahites) were assigned to guard the entrance to the sanctuary. Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the LORD’s dwelling place.

  • Num 3:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7They are responsible for his needs and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

    8And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve in the tabernacle.

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    74%

    32They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the LORD’s temple.

  • 1 Chr 26:12
    73%

    12These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had assigned responsibilities, like their relatives, as they served in the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 8:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14As his father David had decreed, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. This was what David the man of God had ordered.

    15They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.

  • 2 Chr 23:4
    73%

    4This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors.

  • 1 Chr 23:28
    72%

    28Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the LORD’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple.

  • Neh 4:22
    72%

    22At that time I instructed the people,“Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.”

  • 2 Chr 35:15
    72%

    15The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

  • Neh 7:3
    72%

    3I said to them,“The gates of Jerusalem must not be opened in the early morning, until those who are standing guard close the doors and lock them. Position residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their guard stations and some near their homes.”

  • 1 Chr 9:33
    72%

    33The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

  • 2 Chr 34:13
    72%

    13supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

  • 2 Chr 31:16
    71%

    16They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records– to all who would enter the LORD’s temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions.

  • Neh 13:5
    71%

    5He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

  • Neh 11:16
    71%

    16Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God;

  • Ezra 8:29
    71%

    29Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, in the storerooms of the temple of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 28:13
    71%

    13He gave him the regulations for the divisions of priests and Levites, for all the assigned responsibilities within the LORD’s temple, and for all the items used in the service of the LORD’s temple.

  • Neh 13:30
    71%

    30So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.

  • Ezek 40:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    45He said to me,“This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

    46and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the LORD to minister to him.”

  • 2 Kgs 11:7
    71%

    7The two units who are off duty on the Sabbath will guard the LORD’s temple and protect the king.

  • Num 3:31
    71%

    31Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the curtain, and all their service.

  • Num 1:53
    70%

    53But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the LORD’s anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony.”

  • 1 Chr 23:30
    70%

    30They also stood in a designated place every morning and offered thanks and praise to the LORD. They also did this in the evening

  • Neh 10:39
    70%

    39The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
    70%

    11The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.

  • 2 Chr 34:10
    70%

    10They handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.

  • Neh 12:45
    70%

    45They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and his son Solomon.

  • Lev 8:35
    70%

    35You must reside at the entrance of the Meeting Tent day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the LORD so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

  • 2 Chr 31:14
    70%

    14Kore son of Imnah, a Levite and the guard on the east side, was in charge of the voluntary offerings made to God and disbursed the contributions made to the LORD and the consecrated items.

  • 1 Chr 16:37
    70%

    37David Appoints Worship Leaders David left Asaph and his colleagues there before the ark of the LORD’s covenant to serve before the ark regularly and fulfill each day’s requirements,

  • Neh 12:47
    70%

    47So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need. They also set aside the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.

  • Ezek 44:14
    70%

    14Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

  • Num 1:50
    70%

    50But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.

  • Neh 12:25
    70%

    25Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who were guarding the storerooms at the gates.

  • Neh 4:9
    69%

    9So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them both day and night.

  • 2 Chr 23:19
    69%

    19He posted guards at the gates of the LORD’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5
    69%

    5Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,

  • 1 Chr 15:23
    69%

    23Berechiah and Elkanah were guardians of the ark;

  • 2 Kgs 12:11
    69%

    11They would then hand over the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the LORD’s temple,

  • Ezek 44:11
    69%

    11Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.