1 Chronicles 23:24
These are the sons of Levi, in their kindred and families, leaders in turns, and the number of each of the heads who were doing the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord, from twenty years of age and upward.
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23The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
Cross References
Numbers 1:2“Take a total of the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, by their families and houses, and the names of each one, of whomever is of the male sex,
Numbers 1:22Of the sons of Simeon, by their generations and families, and the houses of their kinships, having been counted by the names and heads of each one, of all who were of the male sex, from twenty years and above, capable of going to war,
Numbers 3:15“Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and above.”
Numbers 3:47you shall take five shekels for each head, by the measure of the Sanctuary. A shekel has twenty obols.
Numbers 4:34Therefore, Moses and Aaron, and the leaders of the assembly, took a census of the sons of Kohath, by the kinships and houses of their fathers,
Numbers 10:17And the tabernacle was taken down, because the sons of Gershon and Merari, who carry it, were departing.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 23:2-24
The Numbering of the Levites. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 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… Read the whole commentary →