Discovery Box1 Chronicles 9:26-33 
Context9:26 The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary. 1 9:27 They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, 2 for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning. 9:28 Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out. 3 9:29 Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, 4 as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices. 9:30 (But some of the priests mixed the spices.) 9:31 Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son 5 of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings. 9:32 Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath.
9:33 The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary 6 and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.
1 tn Heb “in the house of God.”
2 tn Heb “in the house of God.”
3 tn Heb “and from them over the articles of the task, for by number they would bring them in, and by number they would bring them out.”
4 tn Heb “holy place.”
5 tn The word “son” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.
6 tn Heb “were in rooms.” The words “at the sanctuary” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
