THEOSIS1 Chronicles 23:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families, princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old and upward.
אֵ֣לֶּה בְנֵֽי־לֵוִי֩ לְבֵ֨ית אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֜ם רָאשֵׁ֧י הָאָב֣וֹת לִפְקוּדֵיהֶ֗ם בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר שֵׁמוֹת֙ לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם עֹשֵׂה֙ הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה מִבֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָמָֽעְלָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 10:17And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.
- 1 Chr 23:3And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.
- Num 10:21Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it up.
- Num 4:3From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
- Ezra 3:8And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
- Num 8:24This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
- 1 Chr 23:27So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are to be numbered from twenty years old and upward.
- Num 2:32This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army divided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.