LXX Concordance for φυλάσσοντες

Counting every male one month old or more, there were 8,600[fn] responsible for the duties of[fn] the sanctuary.

Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of[fn] the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise. Any unauthorized person who came near it was to be put to death.

The spies saw a man coming out of the town and said to him, “Please show us how to get into town, and we will show you kindness.”

“What you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die[fn] since you didn't protect your lord, the LORD's anointed. Now look around; where are the king's spear and water jug that were by his head? ”

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and committed them into the care of the captains of the guards[fn] who protected the entrance to the king's palace.

Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the LORD's temple; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the LORD's temple.

“Go up to the high priest Hilkiah so that he may total up the silver brought into the LORD's temple ​— ​the silver the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his relatives from his ancestral family, the Korahites, were assigned to guard the thresholds of the tent.[fn] Their ancestors had been assigned to the LORD's camp as guardians of the entrance.

Hosah, from the Merarites, also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

Whenever the king entered the LORD's temple, the guards would carry the shields and take them back to the armory.[fn]

So they went to the high priest Hilkiah and gave him the silver brought into God's temple. The Levites and the doorkeepers had collected it from Manasseh, Ephraim, and from the entire remnant of Israel, and from all Judah, Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews, priests, nobles, officials, or the rest of those who would be doing the work.

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the city gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

Remember me for this also, my God, and look on me with compassion according to the abundance of your faithful love.

For my enemies talk about me,

and those who spy on me plot together,

How happy are those who uphold justice,

who practice righteousness at all times.

They have her surrounded

like those who guard a field,

because she has rebelled against me.

This is the LORD's declaration.