“ Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomithf the chief. ”
1 Chronicles 23:1 to 1 Chronicles 24:31 . The Levites and the Priests. The Chronicler implies that the organisation of the Levites and priests and the settling of their duties as existing in his...
Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer. No JFB commentary on these verses.
David makes Solomon King. Particulars relating to the Levites This and the following three Chapter s (supplementing the earlier history) describe the arrangements made by David for the organisatio...
(6-23) The twenty-four houses of the Levites.
David's interest in building the Temple and establishing it as the center of worship and of the nation is not only manifest in the material preparation he made in amassing treasure, and carrying out...
I do not interrupt the reading of this list of the Levites, but bring the account altogether into one view, because the observations arising out of the whole are one and the same. The Reader may perh...
Of the sons of Izhar ,.... Another son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 1 Chronicles 23:12 . Shelomith the chief ; the principal descendant of Izhar at this time.
The Numbering of the Levites. B. C. 1015. 1 So when David was old and full of days, he m...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] This and following three Chapter s contain an account of Levites and distribution of their services. Here their number, classification, and work ( 1 Chronicles 23:1-6 ). But 1 Chron...
1 Chronicles 23:3 . Thirty years. So Moses had commanded. Numbers 4:3 . But now it would seem from 1 Chronicles 23:24 , that David numbered the levites from the age of twenty, the number at thir...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the first of four employed on the subject of the Levites and the services distributed among them. The twenty-four orders of priests, sons of Aaron, occupy 1 Chronicle...
The Levites Divided into Three Courses
1 Chronicles 24:22 ; 1 Chronicles 26:26