1 Chronicles 23:3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1-23

Here we have, I. The crown entailed, according to the divine appointment, 1 Chron. 23:1. David made Solomon king, not to reign with him, or reign under him, but only to reign after him. This he did, 1. When he was old and full of days. He was but seventy years old when he died, and yet he was full of days, satur dierum?satisfied with living in this world. When he found himself going off, he made provision for the welfare of the kingdom after his decease, and pleased himself with the hopeful... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:3

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upward ,.... So they were numbered in the days of Moses, and by his order, and so they were now at first; though afterwards there was a new reckoning of them, 1 Chronicles 23:24 . and their number by their posts ; or, according to their heads: man by man, was thirty and eight thousand ; which vastly exceeds the number in the times of Moses; see Numbers 4:47 , but then those above fifty years of age were not numbered,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 23:3

Thirty years and upward - The enumeration of the Levites made in the desert, Numbers 4:3 , was from thirty years upwards to fifty years. In this place, the latter limit is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so laborious now; for the ark being fixed they had no longer any heavy burdens to carry, and therefore even an old man might continue to serve the tabernacle. David made another ordinance afterwards; see on 1 Chronicles 23:24-27 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1-5

EXPOSITION This chapter is the first of four employed on the subject of the Levites and the services distributed among them. The twenty-four orders of priests, sons of Aaron, occupy 1 Chronicles 24:1-31 . The twenty-four orders of the singers and musicians occupy the contents of 1 Chronicles 25:1-31 . And the divisions of the porters, with their gates; and of those Levites who had the keeping of the treasures of the house of God; and the officers and judges, fill up 1 Chronicles... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:3

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward. The thing which Joab had rightly resisted ( 1 Chronicles 21:3-6 ) and shrunk from doing was now rightly done. There was now a practical and a legitimate object for doing it. This consideration helps to determine what it was that "displeased the Lord" in the former general census of David. In connection with this clause, 1 Chronicles 27:23 should be noted, where we read, "But David took not the number of them from... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:1-32

Arrangements for the Levites (23:1-26:32)Having appointed Solomon to be his successor, David made further arrangements for the service of the temple. First, he set out a plan to distribute duties among the Levites. A census showed that there were 38,000 Levites eligible for temple service. Of these, 14,000 were official record-keepers, judges, guards, singers and musicians. The remainder were to help in the general service of the temple (23:1-6). Clearly, there were far too many Levites to work... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Chronicles 23:3

thirty years. According to Numbers 4:3 , Numbers 4:23 , Numbers 4:35 , Numbers 4:47 , Changed to twenty-five years by Jehovah (Numbers 8:24 ); and, by David's "last words", to twenty years (1 Chronicles 23:27 ). Compare Ezra 3:8 . man = strong man. Hebrew. geber. App-14 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 23:3

3. the Levites were numbered . . . thirty and eight thousand—Four times their number at the early census taken by Moses (see on :-; :-). It was, in all likelihood, this vast increase that suggested and rendered expedient that classification, made in the last year of David's reign, which the present and three subsequent chapters describe. by their polls, man by man—Women and children were not included. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Chronicles 23:1-32

Preparations for temple service chs. 23-26Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 23 (1 Chronicles 23:1-2) provide an outline for what follows in chapters 23-27 but in reverse order. After David appointed Solomon as his coregent in 973 B.C., he began the preparations the writer described here.David adapted the service of the Levites, who assisted the priests, to the new temple ritual. This form of worship was a combination of tabernacle and divinely approved revised worship (1 Chronicles 23:3-32; Numbers 3).... read more

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