²⁵ Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

⁵ He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

⁸ So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift.

⁷ The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.