They would spend the night in their posts all around God's sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him.

To Hosah, the door on the west, by the door of Shallecheth, at the footway which goes up, watch by watch.

Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the Tent of Meeting.

And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark.