Key Verse Spotlight
1 Chronicles 23:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.”
1 Chronicles 23:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
Of which, twenty and four thousand {were} to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand {were} officers and judges: {set...: or, oversee}
Moreover four thousand {were} porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, {said David}, to praise {therewith}.
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