26. For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office and were over the chambers and treasures of the house of God.
27. And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
28. And certain of them had the charge of the vessels of ministry, that they should account for them when they were brought in and out.
29. Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels and all the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.
30. And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
31. And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum, the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
32. And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the showbread, to order it every sabbath.
33. And of these there were singers, princes of the fathers of the Levites, who remained in the chambers free from other work; for they were employed in that work day and night.
34. These heads of the fathers of the Levites were heads throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
35. And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah;