1 Chronicles 23:1-8

1 igitur David senex et plenus dierum regem constituit Salomonem filium suum super Israhel

2 et congregavit omnes principes Israhel et sacerdotes atque Levitas

3 numeratique sunt Levitae a triginta annis et supra et inventa sunt triginta octo milia virorum

4 ex his electi sunt et distributi in ministerium domus Domini viginti quattuor milia praepositorum autem et iudicum sex mili

5 porro quattuor milia ianitores et totidem psaltae canentes Domino in organis quae fecerat ad canendum

6 et distribuit eos David per vices filiorum Levi Gersom videlicet et Caath et Merari

7 Gersom Leedan et Semei

8 filii Leedan princeps Ieihel et Zetham et Iohel tres

1 Chronicles 23:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 23

In this chapter David makes Solomon king, 1Ch 23:1, calls together the princes, priests, and Levites, numbers the latter, and assigns them their proper work, 1Ch 23:2-5, divides them into three classes, 1Ch 23:6-23, when the number of them was taken from twenty years of age, and upwards; the reasons of which are given, partly from the rest the land enjoyed, and partly from the several branches of their work and office in the temple, 1Ch 23:24-32.