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

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

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

Kore 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.

As 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.

The 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.