2 Chronicles 23:1-10

11Now in the seventh year, Jehoiada gathered his courage, and took captains of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Johanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, and they entered into a covenant with him. 2And they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the fathers’ households of 2Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 3Then all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And 3Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son shall reign, 4as the Lord has spoken concerning the sons of David. 4This is the thing which you shall do: a third of you, of the priests and Levites 5who come in on the Sabbath, shall be gatekeepers, 5and a third shall be at the king’s house, and a third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courtyards of the house of the Lord. 6But no one is to enter the house of the Lord except the priests and 6the ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy. And all the people are to keep the command of the Lord. 7The Levites will surround the king, each man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever enters the house is to be put to death. Therefore be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”

8The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss any of 7the divisions. 9Then Jehoiada the priest gave the captains of hundreds the spears and the shields and quivers which had been King David’s, which were in the house of God. 10He stationed all the people, each man with his weapon in his hand, from the right 8side of the house to the left 9side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.