1 Chronicles 23:4-24

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 much increased from the days of Moses, (see Numbers 4:48) how large an house of servants the Lord kept. And what a precious thought it is, that there was not only room enough for them, but a plentiful table for them, and every supply. The promise runs to this amount; They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fulness of thine house, and thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasures. Psalms 36:8. Reader! do not overlook the privilege still of Jesus's people. They are spiritual Levites, nay, they are royal Levites, for he hath made them kings and priests unto God and the Father. Revelation 1:6. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be still praising thee. Psalms 84:4. But is there not an additional note to this divine song. Yes! there is, when the believer can sing it under the Spirit's teaching. I mean, when Jesus himself is beheld as the house and home, and habitation of his redeemed. If Moses sung this song. Reader, why may not you and I? Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations, Psalms 90:1.