And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests, and the Levites after their courses,.... As they were fixed by David, and were in the times of Jehoshaphat, and had been since interrupted, and which…
Barnes' Notes
The tents - literally, “the camps.” The temple is called the “camp of Yahweh” by an apt metaphor: the square enclosure, with its gates and stations, its guards and porters, its reliefs, its orderly…
Adam Clarke
In the gates of the tents of the Lord - That is, in the temple; for this was the house, tabernacle, tent, and camp, of the Most High.
We have here an account of what was done after the passover. What was wanting in the solemnities of preparation for it before was made up in that which is better, a due improvement of it after. When…
Cambridge Bible
(not in 2 Kin.). Organisation of the Priests, Tithe
2. the courses Cp. 1Ch 24:1 ff.
the priests and Levites R.V. both the priests and the Levites.
in the gates Cp. Deu 16:5.
the tents of the Lord R.V.…
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