◄ 2 Chronicles 23:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Jehoiada also put guards on duty at the Temple gates to keep out anyone who was ritually unclean.

New Revised Standard Version
He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada ordered the guards at the temple gates to keep out anyone who was unclean.

New American Bible
Moreover, he stationed guards at the gates of the LORD’s house so that no one unclean in any respect might enter.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.

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He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.

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1 Chronicles 9:23,24 As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the Lord, and the tabernacle by their turns. . . .

1 Chronicles 26:1-32 And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph. . . .

Context
Jehoiada Restores the Worship of the LORD
…18And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition of David. 19He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.20And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.…
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 9:22
All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two hundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.

2 Chronicles 23:18
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