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Jehoiada assigns gates and protects the holy house.
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2 Chronicles 23:4-6

Guard the Thresholds and the Courts

Joash Crowned and Jehoiada’s Covenant · 2 Chronicles 23

Story guide: Jehoiada assigns gates and protects the holy house.

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4This is what you shall do: one third of you who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.

5one third shall be at the king’s house, one third at the Foundation Gate, and all the people in the courts of the house of Yahweh.

6And let no one enter the house of Yahweh except the priests and the ministering Levites; they may enter, because they are holy. And let all the people keep the charge of Yahweh.

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