23. and now they guarded the temple gates.
24. There was one full-time guard appointed to each of the four sides of the temple.
25. Their assistants lived in the villages outside the city, and every seven days a group of them would come into the city and take their turn at guard duty.
26. 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.
27. They guarded the temple day and night and opened its doors every morning.
28. Some of the Levites were responsible for the equipment used in worship at the temple, and they had to count everything before and after it was used.
29. Others were responsible for the temple furnishings and its sacred objects, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.
30. But only the priests could mix the spices.
31. Mattithiah, Shallum's eldest son, was a member of the Levite clan of Korah, and he was in charge of baking the bread used for offerings.
32. The Levites from the Kohath clan were in charge of baking the sacred loaves of bread for each Sabbath.
33. The Levite family leaders who were the musicians also lived at the temple. They had no other responsibilities, because they were on duty day and night.
34. All these men were family leaders in the Levi tribe and were listed that way in their family records. They lived in Jerusalem.
35. Jeiel had settled the town of Gibeon, where he and his wife Maacah lived.
36. They had ten sons, who were born in the following order: Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
37. Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth
38. the father of Shimeam. Some of them went to live in Jerusalem near their relatives.
39. Ner was the father of Kish and the grandfather of King Saul.Saul had four sons: Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
40-41. Jonathan was the father of Meribbaal, the grandfather of Micah, and the great-grandfather of Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.