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LEVITES, Were overseers in building and the repairs of the temple
1 Chronicles 23:2-4
2. He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the LEVITES.
3. The LEVITES were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
4. David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of The LORD's house, six thousand were officers and judges,
Ezra 3:8-9
8. Now in the second year of their coming to God's house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the LEVITES, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the LEVITES, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of The LORD's house.
9. Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God's house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the LEVITES.