CONTENTS This Chapter relates to us the appointing of Solomon king, in the room of David his father. The Levites and officers of the temple are appointed also, and numbered. 1 Chronicles 23:1 The age of David was not so great as many of his fathers. When he died, he had not exceeded seventy years... [ Continue Reading ]
The gathering of the Levites seems to have been a very pious act, and evidently intended for the furtherance of the divine glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
The age of their numbering from thirty years, seems to convey very strong testimonies that a competency of wisdom and gravity were considered as necessary, before that they were numbered among the Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not interrupt the reading of this list of the Levites, but bring the account altogether into one view, because the observations arising out of the whole are one and the same. The Reader may perhaps be led to remark, from the great number of Levites here mentioned, and which it should seem were... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse confirms the thought with which we closed our observation on the former. And if we read it in a gospel sense, and with an eye to the ever blessed Jesus, is it not delightful? The Lord God of Israel hath indeed given rest unto his people, for Jesus is the rest wherewith ye may cause the we... [ Continue Reading ]
The employment of the Levite, probably before the temple was built, had been accompanied with bodily exercise and labour: but now they are henceforth to minister only in holy things. Is not this a beautiful type of the gospel church? When Jesus, whom this temple represented, came in the fulness of g... [ Continue Reading ]
The last words of David, that is, the last words of David on this subject, lessened down the age ten years from the former appointment. Probably this means; that the introduction of younger men for the subordinate service, was now such, that under the eye and teaching of the elders, they might be in... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! I only detain you with the reflection of one interesting thought, which seems to arise out of the perusal of this chapter, concerning the Levites. You see how numerous they were in those early ages of the church; and you will, I am sure, think with me, that in the present hour fa... [ Continue Reading ]