1 Chronicles 9:29
Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
The order of service to which the verse belongs was recorded after the return from Babylon, yet it was originally established by David and Samuel, as stated in 1 Chronicles 9:22. Its mention of the Sabbath therefore reaches back to David's time, even though the recorded arrangement comes from the later period.
The verse is part of the account of how work in the temple service was divided, and that account gives a full understanding of the work of the porters, who were gatekeepers. In that division some were assigned responsibility for the sanctuary's vessels and instruments, as well as its supplies of fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices. Some Levites as appointed custodians were set to oversee the sanctuary's vessels and all its instruments of service, along with the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices. Those duties included care of the ministry's vessels and the elements prepared for priestly service.
Those vessels, instruments, and supplies belonged to the sanctuary and were used in sacred service as elements prepared for priestly ministry, so the custodians were responsible for what pertained to the sacred service. The sanctuary named in the verse owns all its instruments and is the tabernacle-temple house of the Lord with its vessels and instruments of ministry, identified as either the tabernacle or the temple. The verse stands among passages describing the tabernacle as the sanctuary after its entry into the promised land and before its incorporation into the temple. It proves the Sanctuary is that tabernacle-temple building, not the whole earth or Palestine nor any land. It is one of nineteen times from Israel's entrance into the holy land to the location of the tabernacle in the temple where the Bible expressly applies the term Sanctuary to that building, joining fifty-six such uses during the wilderness sojourn, showing the Bible dwells largely upon that building under the explicit name of the Sanctuary of the Lord.