He said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath.” And she said, “It will be well.”

He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king’s house

Two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the Lord for the king.

So the captains of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with those who were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

The covered way for the sabbath which they had built in the house, and the outer entry of the king, he removed from the house of the Lord because of the king of Assyria.