2 Kings 11:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ He commanded them, ‘This is what you are to do: one-third of you, those who go off duty on the sabbath and guard the king’s house ⁶ (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards), shall guard the palace; ⁷ and your two divisions that come on duty in force on the sabbath and guard the house of the Lord^[a]