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1 Chronicles 23:32

in 1 Chronicles 23

So the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

KJV

And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the Lord.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 23

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The charge of the sons of Aaron - It was the priests’ business to kill, flay, and dress, as well as to offer, the victims, but being few, they were obliged to employ the Levites to flay those animals. The Levites were, properly speaking, servants to the priests, and were employed about the more servile part of Divine worship.

This site's exposition

to assist the descendants of Aaron

on 1 Chronicles 23:28-32

Now that they carry nothing, the Levites assist the priests in “the courts and chambers”, purify the holy things and prepare the showbread. They “stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the LORD”. This daily praise carries forward the thanksgiving of 1 Chronicles 16:34.

This site's exposition

responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting

The Levites tend the Tent of Meeting and its Holy Place, serving under the priests. Matthew Henry notes that the priests are still called their brothers, a reminder that priests must never lord it over Levites. Adam Clarke says the few priests had Levites flay victims.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They were likewise to keep the charge of the sons of Aaron, to be at their beck and go on their errands, who are yet called their brethren, to be a memorandum to the priests that, though they were advanced to a high station, yet they were hewn out of the same rock with common Levites, and therefore must not lord it over them, but in all instances treat them as brethren.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the L ORD , to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.

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The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשָׁמְר֞וּand they kept

    veshameruH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת[the] duty of

    mishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • אֹֽהֶל־[the] tent of

    ʾohel-H168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֗דmeeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

  • וְאֵת֙and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת[the] duty of

    mishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁthe holy place

    hakodeshH6944 →469 times

  • וּמִשְׁמֶ֕רֶתand [the] duty of

    umishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֖ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • אֲחֵיהֶ֑םrelatives their

    ʾacheihemH251 →630 times

  • לַעֲבֹדַ֖תfor [the] service of

    laavodatH5656 →145 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃ פYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 1:53

    But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 3:7–8

      They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 16:46

      Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…

  • Through

    Numbers 3:38

    Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:53

      But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the…

    • Numbers 3:10

      So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

    • Numbers 2:3

      On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard:

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:4

    and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 1:3

      And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the…

    • 1 Kings 3:4

      Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:27

    They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 23:30–32

      They were also to stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the LORD, and likewise in the evening.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.