1 Chronicles 23:2-5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

(2-5) The numbering of the Levites and their appointments.

1 Chronicles 23:2-5

2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

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.

4 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

5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.