DAVID MAKES SOLOMON KING. PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE LEVITES This and the following three Chapter s (supplementing the earlier history) describe the arrangements made by David for the organisation of the Temple service after Solomon had been appointed his successor. The incidents relating to this... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE AGE OF THIRTY YEARS] This limit is given in Numbers 4:3, but 'twenty-five' is fixed in Numbers 8:24, possibly having in view different and lighter duties. BY THEIR POLLS] i.e. by heads.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHIMEI] This was a fourth son of 'Laadan,' not the 'SHIMEI' of 1 Chronicles 23:7; 1 Chronicles 23:10, who was Laadan's brother, II. Zizah] the 'Zina' of 1 Chronicles 23:10. Jeush.. Beriah] These together constituted a third 'course' belonging to the house of the elder Shimei, RV 'they became a fathe... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS SONS.. LEVI] i.e. the sons of Moses were reckoned as Levites, not (like the sons of Aaron) as priests.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE AGE OF TWENTY YEARS] David, at the end of his reign (1 Chronicles 23:27), seems to have lowered the limit of age (see 1 Chronicles 23:3) above which the Levites entered on their duties, and his regulations were observed in subsequent times: 2 Chronicles 31:17; Ezra 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE LAST WORDS] better, 'in the Last Acts,' i.e. a history of the closing part of his reign.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL.. SIZE] i.e. for dispensing the various quantities used for the different offerings (as in Exodus 29:40;).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SET FEASTS] These were the festivals of the Passover, Unleavened Bread, Weeks, and Tabernacles; for the number of victims appointed for each occasion see Numbers 28:29.... [ Continue Reading ]