And the Levites shall compass the King round about, and every man with his weapon in his hand, and he that entereth [a]into the house, shall be slain, and be you with the king, when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

¶ So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the Priest had commanded, and took every man his men that came on the Sabbath, with them that [b]went out on the Sabbath: for Jehoiada the Priest did not discharge the courses.

And Jehoiada the Priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and shields, and bucklers which had been King David’s, and were in the house of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 23:7 Meaning, to make any tumult, or to hinder their enterprise.
  2. 2 Chronicles 23:8 Which had finished their course on the Sabbath, and so the other part entered to keep their turn.

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