4This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
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And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. …
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, …
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. …
And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate. …
And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 tedious night the returning day in this revolution was the brighter and the more welcome. The continuance of David’s seed and throne was what God had sworn by his holiness (Ps. 89:35), and an interruption…
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