2 Chronicles 23:2
And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
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Barnes' Notes
Jehoiada was unwilling to trust the success of the revolution wholly and entirely to the royal body-guard. Accordingly, the captains collected from the cities of Judah a strong body of Levites and the…
We may well imagine the bad posture of affairs in Jerusalem during Athaliah's six years' usurpation, and may wonder that God permitted it and his people bore it so long; but after such a dark and…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
gathered the Levites This statement is not found in Kings, nor is it there stated as here (2Ch 23:6) that only Levites were allowed inside the Temple to guard the king.
the chief of the fathers R.V.…
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