2 Kings 11:5 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 11:5

And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

KJV

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ASV

And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

WEB

and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,

YLT

and commandeth them, saying, `This is the thing that ye do; The third of you are going in on the sabbath, and keepers of the charge of the house of the king,

DBT

And he commanded them saying, This is the thing which ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

About this book

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2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

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14 verses on the floor

1 Chronicles 9:25
And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
Luke 1:23
And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
2 Kings 11:19
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
Luke 1:8–9
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
1 Chronicles 23:3–6
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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