"Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was …" — 1 Chronicles 23:3

1 Chronicles 23:3 · KJV

“Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.”

— 1 Chronicles 23:3

Verse 2

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Verse 4

Of which, twenty and four thousand {were} to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand {were} officers and judges: {set...: or, oversee}

1 Chronicles 23 — Context

So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

Of which, twenty and four thousand {were} to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand {were} officers and judges: {set...: or, oversee}

Moreover four thousand {were} porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, {said David}, to praise {therewith}.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:24

These {were} the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; {even} the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

Numbers 4:2-49

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

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