2 Kings 11:5
Good News Translation
and gave them the following orders: "When you come on duty on the Sabbath, one third of you are to guard the palace;

New Revised Standard Version
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

Contemporary English Version
and said to them: Here's what I want you to do. Three of your guard units will be on duty on the Sabbath. I want one unit to guard the palace.

New American Bible
He gave them these orders: “This is what you must do: one third of you who come on duty on the sabbath shall guard the king’s house;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do.

that enter

1 Chronicles 9:25 And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.

1 Chronicles 23:3-6,32 And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men. . . .

1 Chronicles 24:3-6 And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their courses and ministry. . . .

Luke 1:8,9 And it came to pass, when he executed the priestly function in the order of his course before God, . . .

the watch

2 Kings 11:19 And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 16:18 The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the temple, and the king's entry from without, he turned into the temple of the Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.

1 Kings 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her;

Jeremiah 26:10 And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went up from the king's house into the house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:2,3 And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut . . .

Ezekiel 46:2,3 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be shut till the evening. . . .

Context
Joash Anointed King in Judah
4And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions and soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord, shewed them the king's son: 5And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do.6Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch of the king's house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and let a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.…
Cross References
2 Kings 11:6
Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch of the king's house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and let a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.

1 Chronicles 9:25
And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.

2 Kings 11:4
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