1 Chronicles 23:32
And that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of LORD.
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Numbers 3:6Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
Numbers 8:26but shall minister with their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall thou do to the Levites concerning their charges.
Deuteronomy 18:7then he shall minister in the name of LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do who stand there before LORD.
1 Chronicles 9:27And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was upon them, and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 23:25-32
The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1015.) 24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, 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 rest 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… Read the whole commentary →