1 Chronicles 9:23

23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Jehovah, even the house of the tent, by wards.

1 Chronicles 9:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 9:23

So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of
the house of the Lord
They that were appointed in David's time to watch the gates of the temple, their posterity succeeded them in that office; for it was hereditary:

namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards;
that which was at Gibeon in David's time, and now one was erected until the temple was built.

1 Chronicles 9:23 In-Context

21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

22 All these that were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.

23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Jehovah, even the house of the tent, by wards.

24 On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

25 And their brethren, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them: