Devine Scripture

2 Chronicles 23:4

2 Chronicles chapter 23 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;

Context

v.3And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David.

v.4This passage

v.5and a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:3

    And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:13

    And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:25

    And their brethren, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

  • 1 Chronicles 23:3

    And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

  • Luke 1:8

    Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,