1 Chronicles 23:4

Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah [are] twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

3and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand.

5and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, 'with instruments that I made for praising,' [saith David.]

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:18'Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people — a righteous judgment.

1 Chronicles 6:48And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

1 Chronicles 23:28for their station [is] at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the cleansing of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of God,

1 Chronicles 26:29Of the Izharite, Chenaniah and his sons [are] for the outward work over Israel, for officers and for judges.

2 Chronicles 23:18And Jehoiada putteth the offices of the house of Jehovah into the hand of the priests the Levites whom David had apportioned over the house of Jehovah, to cause to ascend the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as written in the law of Moses, with joy, and with singing, by the hands of David;

Ezra 3:8And in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those coming from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appoint the Levites from a son of twenty years and upward, to overlook the work of the house of Jehovah.

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 →

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