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1 Chronicles 23:25 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 23 · verse 25
For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:1 Chronicles 23:25 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 23:25 in context
23The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
24These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
25For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
26And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
27For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
- dwellshâkanto reside or permanently stayH7931 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Here is, I. An alteration made in the computation of the effective men of the Levites - that whereas, in Moses's time, they were not enlisted, or taken into service, till they were thirty-years old, nor admitted as probationers till twenty-five (Num 8:24), David ordered, by direction from God, that they should be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-32