Bible Verses About The Levites: Keeping the gates of the temple

And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chiefe.

For they were porters to this time by companies of the children of Leui vnto the Kinges gate eastward.

And Shallum the sonne of Kore the sonne of Ebiasaph the sonne of Korah, and his brethren the Korathites (of the house of their father) were ouer the worke, and office to keepe the gates of the Tabernacle: so their families were ouer the hoste of the Lord, keeping the entrie.

And Phinehas ye sonne of Eleazar was their guide, and the Lord was with him.

Zechariah the sonne of Meshelemiah was the porter of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

All these were chosen for porters of the gates, two hundreth and twelue, which were nombred according to their genealogies by their townes. Dauid established these and Samuel the Seer in their perpetuall office.

So they and their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lord, euen of the house of the Tabernacle by wardes.

The porters were in foure quarters Eastward, Westward, Northward and Southward.

And their brethren, which were in their townes, came at seuen dayes from time to time with them.

For these foure chiefe porters were in perpetuall office, and were of the Leuites and had charge of the chambers, and of the treasures in the house of God.