1 Chronicles 23
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So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

porters

1 Chronicles 9:17-27 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, …

1 Chronicles 15:23,24 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark…

1 Chronicles 16:38 And Obededom with their brothers, three score and eight; Obededom …

1 Chronicles 26:1-12 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah …

2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the …

2 Chronicles 35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according …

Ezra 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, …

Nehemiah 7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, …

praised

1 Chronicles 6:31-48 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the …

1 Chronicles 9:33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who …

1 Chronicles 15:16-22 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers …

1 Chronicles 16:41,42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, …

1 Chronicles 25:1-7 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …

2 Chronicles 20:19-21 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children …

Psalm 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: …

the instruments

1 Kings 10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the …

2 Chronicles 29:25,26 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …

Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments …

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

Zina Zina seems to be a mistake for Zizah; for both the LXX and Vulgate read uniformly () Ziza

1 Chronicles 23:11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah …

Zizah

And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.

The sons

1 Chronicles 6:3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons …

Exodus 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she …

Numbers 3:27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of …

Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, …

separated

Exodus 28:1 And take you to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from …

Numbers 18:1 And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house …

Psalm 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call …

Psalm 106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said…

Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated …

Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, …

Hebrews 5:4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he that is called of …

sanctify

Exodus 29:33-37,44 And they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, …

Leviticus 10:10,17,18 And that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between …

Leviticus 16:11-19,32,33 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for …

Leviticus 17:2-6 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, …

Numbers 18:3-8 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle…

to burn incense

Exodus 30:6-10,34-38 And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, …

Leviticus 10:1,2 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, …

Leviticus 16:12,13 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off …

Numbers 16:16-18,35-40,46,47 And Moses said to Korah, Be you and all your company before the LORD, …

1 Samuel 2:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, …

2 Chronicles 26:18-21 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It appertains …

Luke 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn …

Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; …

to bless

Leviticus 9:22,23 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, …

Numbers 6:23-27 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless …

Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD …

Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

the chief. or, the first

1 Chronicles 26:25 And his brothers by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, …

were very many [heb] were highly multiplied

Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

the sons of Levi

Numbers 10:17,21 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the …

after the house

Numbers 1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head …

Numbers 2:32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by …

Numbers 3:15,20 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by …

Numbers 4:34-49 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the …

by their polls

Numbers 1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head …

Numbers 2:32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by …

Numbers 3:15,20 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by …

Numbers 4:34-49 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the …

by their polls

Numbers 1:2,18,22 Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, …

Numbers 3:47 You shall even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel …

from the age At first David appointed the Levites to serve from thirty years old and upwards; but considering, probably, that the temple which was about to be built, with its courts, chambers, etc., would require a more numerous ministry, he fixed this period, by this subsequent regulation, at twenty years and upwards. In the time of Moses, the age was from thirty years to fifty: here this latter period is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so laborious now; for the ark being fixed, they had no longer any burdens to carry; and therefore even an old man might continue to serve. See the Note on

Numbers 8:24 This is it that belongs to the Levites…

Numbers 8:24 This is it that belongs to the Levites…

twenty

1 Chronicles 23:3,27 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: …

Numbers 1:3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to …

Numbers 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …

Numbers 8:24 This is it that belongs to the Levites…

Ezra 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, …

For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;

for the shewbread It was the priests' office to place this bread before the Lord; and it was their privilege to feed on the old loaves when they were replaced by the new.

1 Chronicles 9:31,32 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum …

Exodus 25:30 And you shall set on the table show bread before me always.

Leviticus 24:5-9 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two …

1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the …

2 Chronicles 13:11 And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices …

2 Chronicles 29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed …

Nehemiah 10:33 For the show bread, and for the continual meat offering, and for …

Matthew 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the show bread, …

Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, …

the fine flour

1 Chronicles 9:29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all …

Leviticus 6:20-23 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer …

unleavened

Leviticus 2:4-7 And if you bring an oblation of a meat offering baked in the oven, …

Leviticus 7:9 And all the meat offering that is baked in the oven, and all that …

pan. or, flat plate
for all manner of measure. The standards of all weights and measures were in the sanctuary; and therefore the levites had the inspection of weights and measures of every kind, that no fraud might in this way be committed. Honesty is inseparably connected with piety; and hence the levites, being sufficiently numerous, were employed to superintend the former, as well as the latter.

Leviticus 19:35,36 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, …

Numbers 3:50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand …

And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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