2 Chronicles 8:14

8:14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon ¹  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, ²  and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. ³  This was what David the man of God had ordered. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 29:25

29:25 King Hezekiah ⁵  stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, ⁶  and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

2 Chronicles 31:2

The People Contribute to the Temple

31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks ⁷  – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 35:10

35:10 Preparations were made, ⁹  and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.

Ezra 6:18

6:18 They appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their divisions over the worship of God at Jerusalem, ¹⁰  in accord with ¹¹  the book of Moses.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”

³ tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”

⁴ tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Or “seer.”

⁹ tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the Lord.”

¹³ tn Heb “and the service was prepared.”

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¹⁸ tn Aram “according to the writing of.”