OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 11:7

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The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the LORD’s house around the king.

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Verse 7. Of you. Levites, who waited on the king’s person alternately. Calmet.—They were divided into three parts, being in actual service, verse 6. Those who went out of office were twice the number, and are here told what to do. Sa thinks that those who entered upon duty, and those who went out, formed two thirds of the Levites, verse 9 and 2 Chronicles 23:8. Menochius.

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