2 Chronicles 23:5
Good News Translation
another third will guard the royal palace, and the rest will be stationed at the Foundation Gate. All the people will assemble in the Temple courtyard.

New Revised Standard Version
one-third shall be at the king’s house, and one-third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
one will guard the palace, and the other will guard Foundation Gate. The rest of you will stand guard in the temple courtyards.

New American Bible
another third must be at the king’s house, and the final third at the Foundation Gate, when all the people will be in the courts of the LORD’s house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

the king's house

2 Kings 11:5,6 And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do. . . .

Ezekiel 44:2,3 And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut . . .

Ezekiel 46:2,3 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be shut till the evening. . . .

the gate

Acts 3:2 And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.

Context
Joash Anointed King in Judah
4And this is the thing that you shall do: 5A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.6And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord.…
Cross References
Exodus 8:13
And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:

2 Chronicles 23:4
And this is the thing that you shall do:

2 Chronicles 23:6
And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 23:4
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