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2 Chronicles 31:16

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In addition, they distributed portions to the males registered by genealogy who were three years of age or older—to all who would enter the house of the LORD for their daily duties for service in the responsibilities of their divisions—

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

besides them that were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even every one that entered into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their courses;

KJV

Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

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Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Beside their genealogy of males ... - Some translate it: “Excepting the list of males,” etc. i. e. they distributed to all the members of the priestly families, excepting to those who at the time were performing the duties of their office at Jerusalem. These persons no doubt obtained their share at the temple itself.

This site's exposition

in charge of the freewill offerings given to God

on 2 Chronicles 31:14-19

Kore is set over the offerings, and six men distribute the priests’ share by the genealogical rolls the book spent nine chapters compiling. The portions reach “all the little ones, wives, sons, and daughters”, in the towns and on the farmlands. A consecrated household is provided for as a household.

This site's exposition

three years of age or older

Albert Barnes reports a second way to read the opening of this verse. On that reading the officers gave portions to every family of the priests except the males then serving at the house of the LORD. Those men took their share at the temple.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upwards,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Private individuals brought their own first-fruits to the temple; but the tithes were levied by the Levites, who kept a faithful account of them in their several places of abode and transmitted the allotted proportion to the priests.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Besides [what was allocated to] male family members, from three years old and up.
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on II Chronicles 31:16:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And the priests who traced their genealogy to the house of their fathers, and the Levites with the genealogy of their infants, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. They would supply their sustenance from the heave-offerings and the tithes for that entire congregation.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 31:17:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • מִלְּבַ֞ד<from> <to> besides

    milevadH905 →200 times

  • הִתְיַחְשָׂ֣םrecording genealogy they

    hityachsamH3187 →18 times

  • לִזְכָרִ֗יםto males

    lizkharimH2145 →

  • מִבֶּ֨ןfrom a son of

    mibenH1121 →4930 times

  • שָׁל֤וֹשׁthree

    shalooshH7969 →432 times

  • שָׁנִים֙years

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • וּלְמַ֔עְלָהand <to> upwards <towards>

    ulema'lahH4605 →140 times

  • לְכָל־to every

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַבָּ֥א<the> [one who] went

    haba'H935 →2568 times

  • לְבֵית־to [the] house of

    leveit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לִדְבַר־for [the] matter of

    lidvar-H1697 →1440 times

  • י֣וֹםa day

    yomH3117 →2304 times

  • בְּיוֹמ֑וֹin day its

    beyomoH3117 →2304 times

  • לַעֲב֣וֹדָתָ֔םfor service their

    laavodatamH5656 →145 times

  • בְּמִשְׁמְרוֹתָ֖םby duties their

    bemishmerotamH4931 →78 times

  • כְּמַחְלְקוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃according to divisions their

    kemachlekoteihemH4256 →42 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

7 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

    Ezra 3:4

    They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 23:16

      You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year,…

    • Numbers 29:12–38

      On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.

    • Nehemiah 8:14–17

      And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.

    • Zechariah 14:16–19

      Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

    • John 7:37

      On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 23:3

    The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 23:24

      These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

    • Numbers 4:2–49

      “Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,

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Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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