22. All these chosen to be keepers at the thresholds were 212. These were enrolled by their genealogies in their villages [around Jerusalem], these men [whose grandfathers] David and Samuel the seer had established to their office of trust.
23. So they and their sons had oversight of the gates of the Lord's house, that is, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
24. The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides [of the house of the Lord]–on the east, west, north, and south.
25. Their brethren in their villages were to come in every seven days to be with them.
26. But these Levites, the four chief gatekeepers, were in charge of the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
27. They lodged round about God's house, for the duty [of watching] was theirs, as well as the opening of the house every morning.