2 CHRONICLES 23:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.”
Gatekeepers installed — 'And Jehoiada set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one unclean in any way could enter' (וַיִּתֶּן אֶת־הַשּׁוֹעֲרִים עַל־שַׁעֲרֵי בֵית־יהוה לְבִלְתִּי־יָבוֹא הַטָּמֵא לַעֲבֹדָה). The appointment of gatekeepers (שׁועריים) to the temple gates (שׁערי בית יהוה) establishes cultic purity controls. The phrase 'so that no one unclean in any way could enter' (לבלתי יבוא הטמא לעבודה, literally so that no unclean one enters for service) ensures ritual purity. This is the Levitical function of gatekeeping — controlling access to the sacred space. The restoration of the gatekeeping office indicates a return to Levitical order and cultic propriety.
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