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Bible Verses About Treasure-Houses: Priests and Levites in charge of

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Verses on Priests and Levites in charge of

  1. For the four chief gatekeepers were on permanent duty; they were the L'vi'im in charge of accommodations and supplies in the house of God.

  2. Of the L'vi'im, Achiyah was responsible for the stores in the house of God and the stores of holy articles.

  3. The sons of La'dan, the descendants of the Gershuni belonging to La'dan, the heads of clans belonging to La'dan the Gershuni: Yechi'eli;

  4. and the sons of Yechi'eli: Zetam and Yo'el his brother, over the stores in the house of ADONAI.

  5. Of the 'Amrami, of the Yitz'hari, of the Hevroni, of the 'Uzi'eli,

  6. Sh'vu'el the descendant of Gershom, the son of Moshe, was in charge of the stores.

  7. His kinsmen: from Eli'ezer: Rechavyahu his son, Yesha'yahu his son, Yoram his son, Zikhri his son and Shlomit his son.

  8. This Shlomit and his kinsmen were in charge of all the stores of the dedicated things that David the king, the clan heads, the captains over thousands and hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated.

  9. From the spoil won in wars they had dedicated these things to repair the house of ADONAI.

  10. Also included was all that Sh'mu'el the seer, Sha'ul the son of Kish, Avner the son of Ner and Yo'av the son of Tz'ruyah had dedicated. In short, if anyone had dedicated anything, Shlomit and his brothers were in charge of it.

  11. At that time, men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for supplies, contributions, firstfruits and tenths, and to gather into them, from the fields belonging to the cities, the portions prescribed by the Torah for the cohanim and L'vi'im. For Y'hudah rejoiced over the cohanim and L'vi'im who took their position

  12. To supervise the storerooms I appointed Shelemyah the cohen, Tzadok the Torah-teacher and, from the L'vi'im, P'dayah; assisting them was Hanan the son of Zakur, the son of Mattanyah; for these were considered reliable. Their duty was to make the distribution to their kinsmen.