Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 23:4
1 Chronicles 23:4. To set forward the work of the house of the Lord To take care that all the work of the temple, about sacrifices, should be punctually performed, either by themselves or others; which they were not to do all at once, but by courses, a thousand at a time. Six thousand were officers and judges Not in the affairs of the temple, there the priests presided, but in several parts of the kingdom, where they assisted the princes and elders of every tribe, in the administration of... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 23:3
1 Chronicles 23:3. From the age of thirty years and upward Not only till fifty, as it was appointed Numbers 4:2-3, but even till their death: for that was but a temporary law grounded upon a special reason, because the Levites were employed in carrying the tabernacle and sacred vessels from place to place; and therefore God would have them freed from those burdens when they came to feel the infirmities of age: which reason wholly ceasing upon the building of the temple, their work being far... read more