1 Chronicles 9:26
Good News Translation
The four chief guards were Levites and had the final responsibility. They were also responsible for the rooms in the Temple and for the supplies kept there.

New Revised Standard Version
for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

Contemporary English Version
The four full-time guards were Levites, and they supervised the other guards and were responsible for the rooms in the temple and the supplies kept there.

New American Bible
while the four chief gatekeepers were on permanent duty. These were the Levites who also had charge of the chambers and treasures of the house of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.

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To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.

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1 Chronicles 26:20-27 Now Achias was over the treasures of the house of God, and the holy vessels. . . .

2 Chronicles 31:5-12 Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground bringeth forth. . . .

Nehemiah 10:38,39 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the tithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their tithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure house. . . .

Nehemiah 13:5 And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.

Context
The People of Jerusalem
25And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time. 26To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.27And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.…
Cross References
2 Kings 7:10
So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We went to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses, and asses tied, and the tents standing.

1 Chronicles 9:25
And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.

1 Chronicles 9:27
And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.

Jeremiah 35:2
Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the treasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.

Ezekiel 40:17
And he brought me into the outward court, and behold there were chambers, and a pavement of stone in the court round about: thirty chambers encompassed the pavement.

1 Chronicles 9:25
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