Thematic Bible: Lodged in the chambers of the temple
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Levites » Lodged in the chambers of the temple
The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.
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.
On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south gate facing north.