28Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
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And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, …
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. …
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-32)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 numbered for the service of the house of the Lord , from the age of twenty years and u…
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