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1 Chronicles 23:27

1 Chronicles 23:27
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Both for the shewbread,.... Also to make and get that ready every week for the priests to set on the shewbread table, when they took off the other that had stood a week, see Ch1 9:32.

and for the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

By the “last words of David” some understand an historical work on the latter part of his reign, drawn up probably by Gad or Nathan (compare 1Ch 27:24; 1Ch 29:29). Others suppose that he left behind…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 23:24-32

Here is, I. An alteration made in the computation of the effective men of the Levites - that whereas, in Moses's time, they were not enlisted, or taken into service, till they were thirty-years old,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

by the last words of David, the Leviteswere numbered, from twentyetc.] Render, in the Last Acts of Davit is contained the number of the sons of Levi from twenty years old and upward.

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