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- 1 Chronicles
- Chapter 9
- Verse 27
1 Chronicles 9:27
And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices. For though the Levites had the care of the spices, they might not make the ointment with them, only the priests, see Exo 30:23.
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We have here a further account of the good posture which the affairs of religion were put into immediately upon the return of the people out of Babylon. They had smarted for their former neglect of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
because … to them R.V. because the charge thereof was upon them, and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning. The reference is to the four "chief porters" (1Ch 9:26).
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