2 Chronicles 23:19 meaning and explanation

He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.

2 Chronicles 23:19, Berean Standard Bible

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Jehoiada the priest has just deposed Athaliah and crowned the boy king Joash, and he is now restoring ordered worship in the temple. Stationing gatekeepers at the gates continues a duty David had arranged for the Levites, and the concern is ritual purity: what is unclean must not enter the holy house.

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