Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
      VI. It is said of some of them that, because the charge was upon them, they lodged round about the house of God,1 Chronicles 9:27; 1 Chronicles 9:27. It is good for ministers to be near their work, that they may give themselves wholly to it. The Levites pitched about the tabernacle when they marched through the wilderness. Then they were porters in one sense, bearing the burdens of the sanctuary, now porters in another sense, attending the gates and the doors--in both instances keeping the charge of the sanctuary.