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2 Chronicles 23:5-7
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 Chronicles 23:5-7
Evangelical Heritage Version
5 One third of you will be in the palace of the king, and one third at the Foundation Gate.[a] All the people will be stationed in the courtyards of the House of the Lord.
6 No one will come into the house[b] of the Lord except the priests and the Levites who are serving. They are allowed to enter because they are holy. All the rest of the people will follow the directions of the Lord.
7 The Levites will completely surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. Anyone who enters the house will be put to death. You accompany the king when he comes in and goes out.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 23:5 In 2 Kings 11:6 this is called the Sur Gate.
- 2 Chronicles 23:6 The term house here refers to the sanctuary building itself and the area immediately surrounding it. See also verses 7 and 10. In this part of Chronicles the Hebrew word for house (beth) is used in different senses. It may be a name for the entire temple complex, including the courtyards for the laypeople, or it may refer only to the sanctuary building, where the priests officiated. The translation distinguishes these uses by using House of the Lord as the title of the whole complex and house or building when the reference is only to the sanctuary building itself. The word house is also used to refer to the king’s palace.
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