1 Chronicles 23:4

4 Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges;

1 Chronicles 23:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 23:4

Of which twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work
of the house of the Lord
To prepare for the work of the priests by slaying the sacrifices, flaying them, cutting them in pieces, and washing them, and bringing them to the altar; 1000 of these served weekly in their turns:

and six thousand were officers and judges:
that acted as justices of the peace in the several parts of the country, heard causes and administered justice to the people, being trained up in and acquainted with the laws of God, civil as well as ecclesiastic; some were more properly judges, and others executioners of their sentence; see ( Deuteronomy 16:18 ) ( 17:9 ) .

1 Chronicles 23:4 In-Context

2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and the Levites,

3 were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

4 Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges;

5 moreover, four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which David had made to praise therewith.

6 And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.