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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 23 In this chapter David makes Solomon king, 1 Chronicles 23:1, calls together the princes, priests, and Levites, numbers the latter, and assigns them their proper work, 1 Chronicles 23:2, divides them into three classes, 1 Chronicles 23:6, when the number of them was taken from twenty years of age, and upwards; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So when David was old and full of days,.... Perhaps was now in the last year of his age, about seventy years old, though before he was bedridden; see 1 Chronicles 28:2, he made Solomon his son king over Israel; declared him to be his successor; this was before the affair of Adonijah, for then he ordered him to be anointed king, and placed on the...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, in this and the following chapters settles the method of the temple-service and puts into order the offices and officers of it. In the late irregular times, and during the wars in the beginning of his reign, we may suppose that, though the Levitical ordinances were kept up, yet it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel,.... Ordered them to be assembled, partly to acquaint them with his will and pleasure, that Solomon should succeed him in the kingdom; and partly to settle the order of the work and service of the temple; and therefore these were convened with the priests and Levites; to assign to them their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upward,.... So they were numbered in the days of Moses, and by his order, and so they were now at first; though afterwards there was a new reckoning of them, 1 Chronicles 23:24 and their number by their posts; or, according to their heads: man by man, was thirty and eight thousand;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of which twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord,.... To prepare for the work of the priests by slaying the sacrifices, flaying them, cutting them in pieces, and washing them, and bringing them to the altar; 1000 of these served weekly in their turns: and six thousand were officers and judges: that acted as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Moreover four thousand were porters,.... At the east, north, and south gates of the temple, in their turns; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments; were singers in the temple, which in all made up 38,000: which I made, said David, to praise therewith; which instruments he devised and ordered to be made to praise the Lord with; see...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,.... Into three classes, according to the number of them, which follow: namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; see Exodus 6:16.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei. These two were the immediate posterity of Gershon; are the same with Libni and Shimhi, and heads of families, Exodus 6:17.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiah, and Zetham, and Joel. Not his immediate sons, but some that descended from him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sons of Shimei,.... Not him that was the son of Gershon, but a descendant of Laadan, his son, as Kimchi observes: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, these were the chief of the fathers of Laadan; of the families that sprang from him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the sons of Shimei,.... The son of Gershon, and brother of Laadan, according to Kimchi, which seems right: were Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei; descendants of his in the times of David.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jahath was the chief,.... The prince and head of a family: and Ziza the second; the same with Zina in 1 Chronicles 23:10, and is there read Ziza in the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; so as to constitute distinct families: therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sons of Kohath,.... The second son of Levi: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four; see Exodus 6:18.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses,.... A son of Kohath, 1 Chronicles 23:2 and Aaron was separated; from the children of Israel, Exodus 28:1, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever; by an holy use of them, and keeping them from all unholy and profane uses; and this they were to do as long as the Aaronic priesthood...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now concerning Moses the man of God,.... Raised up by him as a prophet, admitted to great familiarity with him, a lawgiver from him, and the ruler and guide of Israel under him through the wilderness: his sons were named of the tribe of Levi; were only common Levites; Moses had no ambition to gratify; he sought no honour for his posterity; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer. See Exodus 18:3.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief. Of the posterity of Gershom in the times of David, called Shubael, 1 Chronicles 24:20, the Targum makes him to be the same with Jonathan, Judges 18:30. (l) (l) So in Hieron. Trad. Heb. in Paralipom. fol. 84. c.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief,.... The first and only begotten, as it follows: and Eliezer had none other sons; before nor after him: but the sons of Rehabiah were very many; or greatly multiplied; not, as the Targum says, above 600,000; the number of Israel, as the Jewish writers (m) fancy; which they gather from Exodus 1:7, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the sons of Izhar,.... Another son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 1 Chronicles 23:12. Shelomith the chief; the principal descendant of Izhar at this time.