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2 Chronicles 23:8

2 Chronicles 23:8
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And took every man his men ... - i. e. the relief, already organized by Jehoiada into three bodies 2Ch 23:4-5, was further strengthened by the members of the outgoing “course,” who were associated in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 23:1-11

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

the Levites and all Judah In 2 Kin. "the captains over the hundreds." See notes on 2Ch 23:4.

for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses Not in Kings. The Levites (1Ch 23:6), the priests…

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