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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 23
Solomon is made king—Levites are numbered and assigned their
various ministerial labors.
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1 SO when David was old
and full of days, he made aSolomon his son king over
Israel.
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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
athirty years and upward: and their
bnumber 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 ajudges:
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5 Moreover four thousand were
aporters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the
binstruments which I made, said David, to
cpraise therewith.
6 And David divided them into
acourses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
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7 ¶ Of the Gershonites were, Laadan,
and Shimei.
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel,
and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and
Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
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10 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath,
Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of
Shimei.
11 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.
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12 ¶ The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar,
Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
13 The sons of aAmram; Aaron and
Moses: and bAaron was cseparated, that he
should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn
dincense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to
ebless in his name for ever.
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14 Now concerning aMoses
the man of God, his bsons were named of the tribe of
Levia.
15 The sons of Moses were,
aGershom, and Eliezer.
16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was
the chief.
17 And the sons of Eliezer were,
Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of
Rehabiah were very many.
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14a his [Moses] sons were named of the
tribe of Levi It has already been stated that this listing was
of the Levites, so why the need for the 'redundant' statement here that the
sons of Moses 'were named of the tribe of Levi'? This reason being is that
Moses had 'dual' tribal associations in that Moses was so adopted and
counted as the son of the daughter of Pharoah. And thus as stated in the
JST, Moses was therefore counted as of the tribe of Joseph. "And by this name
[Moses] he shall know that he is of thy [Joseph's] house; for [because] he
shall be nursed by the king's daughter, and shall be called her son." (JST
Genesis 50:29) And thus we are given to understand that one of the seed
of Joseph married into the house of Pharoah and thus also that King of Egypt
who is denoted to have not 'known' Joseph was ironically actually a
descendant of Joseph. Yet he must have held to his 'Egyptian' ancestory,
having lived and been raised in the 'house of Pharoah', rather than his
Israelite heritage.
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18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the
chief.
19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first,
Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and
Jesiah the second.
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21 ¶ The sons of aMerari;
Mahli, and Mushi.
The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but
daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and
Jeremoth, three.
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24 ¶ These were the sons of
aLevi after the house of their fathers; even the
chief of the fathers, as they were counted by bnumber of
names by their cpolls, that did the work for the service of
the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath
given arest unto his people, that they may dwell in
Jerusalem for ever:
26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no
more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service
thereof.
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27 For by the last words of David the Levites
were numbered from twenty years old and above:
28 Because their aoffice
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;
29 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;
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30 And to stand every morning to
athank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;
31 And to offer all burnt
asacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new
moons, and on the set bfeasts, by number, according to the
order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
32 And that they should keep the charge of the
atabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy
place, and the charge of the sons of bAaron their
brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
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