1 Chronicles 23:24
These, were the sons of Levi by their ancestral house, the ancestral chiefs of them who were counted in the number of their names, by their polls, doing the work, for the service of the house of Yahweh,—from twenty years old, and upwards.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
23The sons of Mushi, were Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.
Cross References
Numbers 1:2Reckon ye up the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, by their families by their ancestral houses,—in the counting of names, every male, by their polls;
Numbers 1:22Of the sons of Simeon, in their pedigrees by their families by their ancestral houses,—such as were numbered of him, in the counting of names by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war;
Numbers 3:15Number thou the sons of Levi, by their ancestral houses, by their families,—every male, from one month old and upwards, shalt thou number them.
Numbers 3:47thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll,—by the shekel of the sanctuary, shalt thou take it, twenty gerahs to the shekel;
Numbers 4:34Then did Moses and Aaron, and the princes of the assembly, number the sons of the Kohathites, by their families, and by their ancestral house;
Numbers 10:17Then was taken down the habitation,—and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward bearing the habitation.
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 →