Levite temple servants, responsible for protecting the palace and the temple from those who would desecrate it or steal its treasures. City gatekeepers also existed.

1 Chronicles 9:17-22

The ancestry of gatekeepers

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1 Chronicles 26:1-13
Ezra 2:42
Nehemiah 7:45
Ezra 7:24

The special status of gatekeepers

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Ezra 2:70
Nehemiah 7:73; 12:47; 13:5
1 Chronicles 9:23-27

The functions of gatekeepers

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2 Chronicles 8:14
Nehemiah 11:19
2 Chronicles 35:15

Examples of gatekeepers

See also

1 Chronicles 15:16-18; 16:37-38; 23:3-5; 26:14-19
Nehemiah 10:28-29,39; 12:25,45
2 Kings 7:10-11

City gatekeepers

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Nehemiah 7:1-3

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