The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges, four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges, four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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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.
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And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges;
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'
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- 2 Chronicles 19:8 (v4) Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of…
- Deuteronomy 16:18 (v4) You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the…
- 1 Chronicles 23:24 (v3) These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in…
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 (v5) He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their…
- 2 Chronicles 29:25-26 (v5) He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad…
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- Psalms 87:7 (v5) Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
- Amos 6:5 (v5) who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
- Numbers 4:2-49 (v3) “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, from thirty years old and…
- Deuteronomy 17:8-10 (v4) If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being…
- 1 Kings 10:12 (v5) The king made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers;…
- 1 Chronicles 6:31-48 (v5) These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there. They ministered with song…
- 1 Chronicles 6:48 (v4) Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17-27 (v5) The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief), who previously served in the king’s gate…
- 1 Chronicles 9:28-32 (v4) Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count. Some of…
- 1 Chronicles 9:33 (v5) These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were…
- 1 Chronicles 15:16-24 (v5) David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and…
- 1 Chronicles 16:38 (v5) and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
- 1 Chronicles 16:41-42 (v5) and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving…
- 1 Chronicles 23:28-32 (v4) For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying…
- 1 Chronicles 25:1-7 (v5) Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who…
- 1 Chronicles 26:1-12 (v5) For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah…
- 1 Chronicles 26:20-27 (v4) Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things. The sons of Ladan, the sons of…
- 1 Chronicles 26:29-31 (v4) Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah…
- 2 Chronicles 20:19-21 (v5) The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an…
- 2 Chronicles 35:15 (v5) The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and…
- Ezra 3:8-9 (v4) 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…
- Ezra 7:7 (v5) Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up…
- Nehemiah 7:73 (v5) So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities.…
- Nehemiah 11:9 (v4) Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.
- Nehemiah 11:22 (v4) The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the…
- Malachi 2:7 (v4) For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
- Acts 20:28 (v4) Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv4–5 Or, to have care over.
Or, to have care over.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv3–5 1Ch 23:3 Now the Levites were numbered from the…
1Ch 23:3 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.
Ver. 3. Now the Levites were numbered.] Not as the people had been, {1Ch 21:5-6} out of curiosity and vainglory: but on piety and prudence, and by a divine instinct.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv3–5 From the age of thirty years and upward; not…
From the age of thirty years and upward; not only till fifty, as it was appointed, Num 4:2,3, but even till their death; for that was but a temporary law grounded upon a special reason, because the Levites were employed in carrying the tabernacle and sacred vessels from place to place; and therefore God would have them freed from those burdens when they came to feel the infirmities of age; which reason wholly ceasing upon the building of the temple, and their work being far easier than it had been, and their service being more a privilege than a burden, their time of service is justly and fitly prolonged.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of…
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upward,.... So they were numbered in the days of Moses, and by his order, and so they were now at first; though afterwards there was a new reckoning of them, Ch1 23:24.
and their number by their posts; or, according to their heads:
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man by man, was thirty and eight thousand; which vastly exceeds the number in the times of Moses; see Num 4:47, but then those above fifty years of age were not numbered, as they now might; since their work in the temple would be much more easy, no burdens to carry, as the ark, the vessels, &c.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv3–4 Upwards - Not only 'till fifty, as it was…
Upwards - Not only 'till fifty, as it was appointed, Num. iv, 2, 3, but even 'till their death: for that was but a temporary law grounded upon a special reason, because the Levites were employed in carrying the tabernacle and sacred vessels from place to place; and therefore God would have them freed from those burdens when they came to feel the infirmities of age: which reason wholly ceasing upon the building of the temple, their work being far easier than it had been, and their service being more a privilege than a burden, their time of service is justly prolonged.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv3, 5 Verse 3. Thirty years and upward] The enumeration of…
Verse 3. Thirty years and upward] The enumeration of the Levites made in the desert, Nu 4:3, was from thirty years upwards to fifty years. In this place, the latter limit is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so laborious now; for the ark being fixed they had no longer any heavy burdens to carry, and therefore even an old man might continue to serve the tabernacle. David made another ordinance afterwards; see on 1Ch 23:24; 1Ch 23:27.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv3–5 1Ch 23:3. From the age of thirty years and…
1Ch 23:3. From the age of thirty years and upward — Not only till fifty, as it was appointed Num 4:2-3, but even till their death: for that was but a temporary law grounded upon a special reason, because the Levites were employed in carrying the tabernacle and sacred vessels from place to place; and therefore God would have them freed from those burdens when they came to feel the infirmities of age: which reason wholly ceasing upon the building of the temple, their work being far easier than it had been, and their service being more a privilege than a burden, their time of service is justly prolonged.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Numbered at the same time, when David caused his…
Numbered at the same time, when David caused his son to be crowned, and made these fresh regulations, ver. 27., and chap. xxvi. 31. --- Upwards, according to the plan given by Moses. David afterwards ordered people of twenty years of age, to begin to serve in the tabernacle, as it was now fixed, and consequently the labours were diminished. This tended to augment the splendour of the religious worship, and to edify the people, who could not attend so constantly, in person.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv3–5 the Levites were numbered . . . thirty and…
the Levites were numbered . . . thirty and eight thousand--Four times their number at the early census taken by Moses (see on Num. 4:1-49; Num. 26:1-51). It was, in all likelihood, this vast increase that suggested and rendered expedient that classification, made in the last year of David's reign, which the present and three subsequent chapters describe.
by their polls, man by man--Women and children were not included.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v4 4. To set forward the work of the house…
4. To set forward the work of the house — Rather, to preside over the work; to attend to the various kinds of service specified in 1Ch_23:28-32.
Officers and judges — Hebrew, Shoterim and Shophetim. They served as local magistrates and judges throughout the various cities of the land. See notes on Jos_1:10, and comp. 1Ch_26:29, and 2Ch_19:8-10.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv3–5 3. by their polls] Lit. by their skulls. “Poll”…
3. by their polls] Lit. by their skulls. “Poll” is an almost obsolete word for “head,” retained in the compound word, “poll-tax.”
thirty and eight thousand] A great increase since the time of Moses; the males from a month old and upwards are reckoned at 22,000 in Num_3:39 and at 23,000 in Num_26:62.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv3–5 (3) Now . . . and—i.e., after the council…
(3) Now . . . and—i.e., after the council had agreed upon it.
The Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward.—A census like that which Moses instituted (Num_4:3; Num_4:23; Num_4:30, &c.), of all Levites “from thirty years old and upward unto fifty years,” for the work of the Tabernacle.
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By their polls, man by man.—Lit., As to their skulls, as to men. The second phrase defines the first, and excludes women and children.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of…
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward. The thing which Joab had rightly resisted (1Ch_21:3-6) and shrunk from doing was now rightly done. There was now a practical and a legitimate object for doing it. This consideration helps to determine what it was that "displeased the Lord" in the former general census of David. In connection with this clause, 1Ch_27:23 should be noted, where we read, "But David took not the number ofthem from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens." The period from the age of thirty years up to fifty (Num_4:3, Num_4:23, Num_4:35, Num_4:39) was fixed under Moses, for those "that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation". (Num_4:47) It is not certain, however, that this census did not inquire, in point of fact, respecting some below this limit of age. For we may note ver. 24 in the first place, and this is partly explained by Num_8:23-25. The number "thirty and eight thousand" of our present verse may be compared with the "eight thousand and five hundred and four score" of Num_4:47, Num_4:48. It is to be observed how promptly the national council did on this occasion commence with the arrangement of the ministers of religion, "the Levites." As we read (Num_4:3) of "thirty years" of age as the appointed age for the commencement of their ministry, and (Num_7:3) of the present or "offering" of "six covered waggons and twelve oxen," which the twelve "princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, princes of the tribes," offered "before the Lord," which greatly lessened the laborious work of the Levites; so we find the commencing age reduced from time to time, to "twenty-five" years, (Num_8:24) and to "twenty years" of age, as in our present chapter (vers. 24-28).
Vers. 3-32.
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The sacred tribe: their service and ours.
We have here
I THE SPECIAL SERVICE WHICH THE LEVITES RENDERED TO ISRAEL. This was four-fold.
1. Assisting at the service of sacrifice. They were "to set forward the workof the house of the Lord" (ver. 4); "their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord," etc. (vers. 28, 29); "to offer i.e. to help at the offering of all burnt sacrifices," etc. (vers. 31, 32).
2. Rendering the service of praise. "Four thousand of them praised theLord," etc. (ver. 5). These were to stand every morning and evening to thank and praise the Lord (ver. 30).
3. Administration of civic business and pacification: "officers and judges"(ver. 4).
4. Guardianship of the gates; preserving from profanation, and so fromDivine displeasure: "porters," i.e. gatekeepers (ver. 5).
II THE CHANGES WHICH OCCUR IN THE FORM OF SERVICE. Even under the same dispensation occasional changes occurred of the way in which God was served. An instance and indication of this is found here. The Levites had no more need to carry the tabernacle from place to place; they thus laid down one of their most solemn and important functions (vers. 25, 26). They were also henceforth to be numbered from twenty (instead of thirty) years of age (vers. 27, 28). And, further, they entered now on the service of instrumental music, systematically arranged (vers. 5, 30). If such minor changes occurred in the same era of religions history, how much greater changes in the order of service might we expect to find when one dispensation gave place to another, when the Law was lost in the gospel? Such we do find. We look, therefore, at
III OUR CORRESPONDING SERVICE UNDER CHRIST.
1. In the matter of sacrifice, the Levites cannot properly be said to haveany successors; for, the one all-sufficient atonement having been offered, there is no sacrifice to be presented, and, there being no officiating priest and no altar "in Christ Jesus," there is needed no ministering Levite. Only that we are all to be priests and Levites in that we are all to present "spiritual sacrifices" of prayer and praise, and of "doing good and communicating," continually unto him. However, there are humbler services to be rendered, needful work to be done, "for the service of the house of the Lord" (ver. 24); and in this useful and worthy ministry, those who take their part cheerfully and do their work faithfully are "approved of him.
2. In the matter of praise, the Levites find their successors in
(1) those who teach and lead in the service of song in the Christian sanctuary;
(2) all who join in and thus encourage others in that service. And they who do their best to perfect the praises of God understanding by that not only attaining to the perfect scientific form of service, but reaching the moral and spiritual ideal of a service in which the music of the instrument and of the voice is subordinated to the melody of the heart, (Eph_5:19) these render an invaluable ministry to the Church of Christ.
1. In respect of administration (officers and judges), as ecclesiastical lawhas given place to civil law, this function of Jehovah"s servants has passed into other hands; yet perhaps they who are peacemakers between their
2. fellows and help to decide disputes between brethren may be said to be the "judges" of the present time.
0. As to guardianship of the gates, with the open throne of grace andaccess at all times to all men, there is little room for us to perpetuate this work of the Levite. But we can, and should, take great pains to preserve the spirit of reverence and pure devotion in the hearts of all who come to worship Christ. C. Consecrated maturity.
On the occasion of the "census," the tribe of Levi had not been taken. A special enumeration of them was now made, and the pattern of the Mosaic census was followed. Those at the age of thirty and above, but under fifty, alone were numbered. But the years from thirty to fifty represent and include a man"s maturity; and, in the case of the Levites, this their maturity lay as a "living sacrifice" on the altar of God"s service. It appears that our Lord began his ministry at the age of thirty. But "who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken." For probably at most three years of his maturity did he lie a "living sacrifice." Make the burden of address a serious and earnest plea that strong men should give the strength of their manhood to holy service for God in the Church and the world. It is the weakness of so many Christian institutions and enterprises . as it so notably is of our Sunday school system that the experienced men and women of middle life hold aloof from them. There have indeed been cases of precocious development before the age of thirty; and we may not, even in our theories or our thoughts, set limits to the gloriously free operations of that Divine Spirit who "divides to every man severally as he wills." Still, the general rule, comprehensively working, is that full culture including something like adequate experience and due self-control is not reached before that age. F.W. Robertson, A. Hallam, R. A. Vaughan, are very familiar illustrations of early maturity. It is also true that there is a limit all too soon reached in most cases to a man"s freshness, power, and originality. A man reaches maturity, and may maintain it awhile; but the time of strong and individual force for any man is usually very brief. No doubt there are cases of strength retained beyond the age of fifty; and there is suitable work in the world for the older men to do. But still, it is in large measure true that a man"s distinct life-witness and life-work are very brief a few swiftly passing years. When they are done he either passes fromthe earth-spheres, or else he must step aside lest he be run down by the hurrying throng who go so much faster than he can go, and who, he begins to think, are going wrong. A man"s strong manhood is his great trust, and this must be for the Lord, wholly consecrated unto him. Then it may be earnestly pressed upon us that
I WE SHOULD ESTIMATE ARIGHT THE PREPARING-TIMES OF LIFE: the spring-times, on which depends the summer beauty; the seedtime, on which depends the autumn harvest; the child-time, on which depends wise fatherhood; the apprenticeship-time, on which depend the business successes.
II WE SHOULD FEEL THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MATURE TIMES: when we can put strength, good judgment, cultured skill, ripe powers, into whatever work we undertake. It is often pressed on our attention that we are responsible for what we have; it may be much more earnestly impressed upon us that we are responsible for what we are or can be.
III WE SHOULD ACCEPT THE PROVIDENCES THAT SET US ASIDE FOR RESTING-TIMES. Some such come in the midst of life"s works for our refreshing. Such come at last when our great life-work is done. We may be spared awhile in the Beulah-land, but in our resting-times we have new and other missions to fulfil. Alas! it takes much grace to make us willing to step quietly aside, and say of the new generation growing up round us, "He must increase, but I must decrease.
In the mystery of the Divine order the later and resting-times of a man"s life may be preparings for the consecrated maturities of the heavenly and eternal spheres. R.T.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v5 And four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments…
1Ch_23:5
And four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made.
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Music and religion
I. The object of music. To praise therewith well expresses the attitude of the Bible towards music. Plutarch says: The chiefest and sublimest end of music is the graceful return of our thanks to the gods. In these words the wisdom of the Bible representation is vindicated. A worthy conception of God is the only thing which can give the true inspiration of music, and keep it pure and noble through all its strains. Thus music and religion ought never to be divorced.
II. Some of the features of the revelation of God which the Bible gives, and see how they agree with the best features of musical life and growth.
1. The Bible reveals God to man, and man to himself; it opens up depths of meaning which ordinary life cannot sound; it calls man the son of God; it bases itself upon the love of God, which passeth knowledge; it speaks of things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive. If we allow music any rights of its own, they must be based upon its claim to give expression which is beyond the power of words, and to utter conceptions which thought cannot formulate. It has the power to take them out of the surroundings even of the deepest thoughts, to lift their aspirations where nothing else can go, to carry them into the presence of a power of harmony and order more fundamental than the skill of the hand or the logic of the mind can represent.
2. Then there is the universality of religion. It is meant for all men: there are all grades and kinds of reception of it. The gospel of Christ is for all men; it has truths for the simple, and doctrines for the wise; it meets all nations of men, each according to its nature and its needs. So music in one way or another affects the simplest and the most cultured, appeals to the joyful and to the sorrowing, defies lines of nationality and of language, and is appropriated by all according to the needs of each.
3. The object of religion is harmony--harmony between heaven and earth, between man and man, harmony in the life of the individual, with its varying experiences. The power of man to appreciate harmony finds a response in the growing resources of the musical art; and the yearnings of man for a better existence, where life shall not clash with death, joy with sorrow, and love with hate, finds an answer in a revelation which destroys death, comforts sorrow, and makes love seen everywhere. There could be no better expression for heaven, aa the place where such a revelation finds its completion, than as the place of music. (Arthur Brooks, D. D.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v4 Of these, twenty-four thousand
Of these, twenty-four thousand
"Of these Levities, 24,000" (See: Numbers)
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six thousand
"6,000 Levites" (See: Numbers)
officers and judges
These Levites listened to legal arguments and administered justice according to the law of Moses.
four thousand
"4,000 Levites" (See: Numbers)
gatekeepers
These Levites guarded the temple entrance so no person who was ceremonially unclean entered.
that corresponded to
"based on" or "according to the descendants of"
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari
These are names of Levi's sons. (See: How to Translate Names)
translationWords
house of God
judge, judges
praise
Yahweh
praise
Levi
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23:3-5 The Levites are recorded according to their roles rather than their families.
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