2 Kings 11:6
Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. You will take turns guarding the palace.
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- 1 Chr 26:13-19 : 13 They cast lots, both young and old, according to their families, to determine which gate they would be responsible for. 14 The lot for the east gate went to Shelemiah. They then cast lots for his son Zechariah, a wise adviser, and the lot for the north gate went to him. 15 Obed-Edom was assigned the south gate, and his sons were assigned the storehouses. 16 Shuppim and Hosah were assigned the west gate, along with the Shalleketh gate on the upper road. One guard was adjacent to another. 17 Each day there were six Levites posted on the east, four on the north, and four on the south. At the storehouses they were posted in pairs. 18 At the court on the west there were four posted on the road and two at the court. 19 These were the divisions of the gatekeepers who were descendants of Korah and Merari.
- 2 Chr 23:4-5 : 4 This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors. 5 Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others will stand in the courtyards of the LORD’s temple.
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- 2 Kgs 11:7-82 verses86%
7 The two units who are off duty on the Sabbath will guard the LORD’s temple and protect the king.
8 You must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever approaches your ranks must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.”
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5 He ordered them,“This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.
- 2 Chr 23:4-63 verses82%
4 This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors.
5 Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others will stand in the courtyards of the LORD’s temple.
6 No one must enter the LORD’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the LORD.
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3 I 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.”
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12 These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had assigned responsibilities, like their relatives, as they served in the LORD’s temple.
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10 There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.
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11 The royal bodyguard took their stations, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king.
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11 The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.
- 1 Chr 9:23-242 verses72%
23 They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the LORD’s sanctuary(that is, the tabernacle).
24 The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides– east, west, north, and south.
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6 Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
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11 Whenever the king visited the LORD’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
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10 You counted the houses in Jerusalem, and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.
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6 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.
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29 After them Zadok son of Immer worked opposite his house, and after him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, guard at the East Gate, worked.
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19 He posted guards at the gates of the LORD’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.
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19 When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
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18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- Jer 17:19-202 verses70%
19 Observance of the Sabbath Day Is a Key to the Future The LORD told me,“Go and stand in the People’s Gate through which the kings of Judah enter and leave the city. Then go and stand in all the other gates of the city of Jerusalem.
20 And then announce to them,‘Listen to the LORD’s message, you kings of Judah, and everyone from Judah, and all you citizens of Jerusalem, those who pass through these gates.
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22 At 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.”
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39 over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
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16 From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people of Judah
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11 Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
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6 He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.
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6 I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!
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3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
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1 The Prince’s Offerings“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.
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19 And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon and their colleagues who were guarding the gates– 172.
- 1 Chr 9:26-272 verses69%
26 The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary.
27 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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10 Then I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. He was confined to his home. He said,“Let’s set up a time to meet in the house of God, within the temple. Let’s close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. It will surely be at night that they will come to kill you.”
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45 He said to me,“This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
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28 Whenever the king visited the LORD’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
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2 The LORD said to me:“This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.
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24 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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25 Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who were guarding the storerooms at the gates.
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18 he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.
- 2 Kgs 22:5-62 verses68%
5 Have 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,
6 including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
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8 The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.
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18 At the court on the west there were four posted on the road and two at the court.
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6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.
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5 The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.
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26 and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.
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48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet and the sides were 5¼ feet on each side.
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17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.