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 26:1-32 . After which the compiler is again awhile clear of the Levitical tribe.

Returning to our present chapter, it gives an account of the numbers of the Levites, of their classification, of David's fresh arrangement of them and fresh distribution of their work ( 1 Chronicles 26:1-6 ). But altogether the largest portion of the chapter ( 1 Chronicles 26:6-32 ) is occupied with the rehearsal of the heads of houses composing the four Levite families, and their offices.

The numbering and the classification of the Levites.