Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.The total number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their settlements. David and the seer Samuel had appointed them to their trusted positions.So they and their sons were assigned as guards to the gates of the LORD’s temple, which had been the tent-temple.
Better a day in your courts than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than live in the tents of wicked people.
“ 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.