“So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the LORD’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 9 contains 44 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.