Joseph Sutcliffe1 Chronicles 23:3 . Thirty years. So Moses had commanded. Numbers 4:3. But now it would seem from 1 Chronicles 23:24, that David numbered the levites from the age of twenty, the number at thirty not being sufficient. 1 Chronicles 23:4 . Twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house; not as officers, but domus ministerio, servants who performed the hard work for the priests. The splendour of David’s kingdom required establishments. 1 Chronicles 23:6 . David... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 23:1-32
1 Chronicles 23:3 . Thirty years. So Moses had commanded. Numbers 4:3. But now it would seem from 1 Chronicles 23:24, that David numbered the levites from the age of twenty, the number at thirty not being sufficient. 1 Chronicles 23:4 . Twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house; not as officers, but domus ministerio, servants who performed the hard work for the priests. The splendour of David’s kingdom required establishments. 1 Chronicles 23:6 . David... read more