11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? …
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-30)We have here a very short and ready way taken for the dividing of the land among the twelve tribes, not so tedious and so far about as the way that was taken in Joshua’s time; for in the distribution of spiritual and heavenly blessings there is not that danger of murmuring and quarrelling that there is in the participation of the temporal blessings. When God gave to the labourers every one his pen…
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