Verse 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.

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.