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26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

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Reorganization of Priests and Levites

11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare store chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

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The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 41.6 Gk: Heb they entered

Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their holding for cities to live in.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 45.5 Gk: Heb as their holding, twenty chambers

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.(A)

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