Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
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Gill's Exposition
And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord,.... The office of others of them was to sing the praises of God, both vocally and with instruments of music, at the time of the morning…
Adam Clarke
Purifying of all holy things - Keeping all the vessels and utensils belonging to the sacred service clean and neat.
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,…
Duties of the Levites
28. their officewas to wait on Literally, their station was at the hand of. For the phrase at the hand ofcp. Psa 123:2, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their…
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