Officers — To take care that all the work of the temple about sacrifices should be punctually performed, either by themselves or others: which they were not to do all at once, but by courses, a thousand at a time. Judges — Not in the affairs of the temple; there the priests presided; but in several parts of the kingdom, where they assisted the princes and elders of every tribe, in the administration of justice.
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1 Chronicles 23:4
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