Dictionary of Bible Themes » 5000 Humanity » 5200 Human civilisation » 5324 gatekeepers
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.
The ancestry of gatekeepers
1 Chronicles 9:17-22 See also 1 Chronicles 26:1-13; Ezra 2:42; Nehemiah 7:45
The special status of gatekeepers
Ezra 7:24 See also Ezra 2:70; Nehemiah 7:73; Nehemiah 12:47; Nehemiah 13:5
The functions of gatekeepers
1 Chronicles 9:23-27 See also 2 Chronicles 8:14; Nehemiah 11:19
Examples of gatekeepers
2 Chronicles 35:15 See also 1 Chronicles 15:16-18; Corinthians 16:37-38; 1 C 3-5; 1 C 14-19; Nehemiah 10:28-29,39; Nehemiah 12:25,45
City gatekeepers
2 Kings 7:10-11 See also Nehemiah 7:1-3
See also
5323 gate 5330 guard 5611 watchman 7390 Levites 7467 temple, Solomon's 8490 watchfulness
