1 Chronicles 23:27
final <0314> [by the last.]
counted <04557> [numbered. Heb. numbers.]
1 Chronicles 2:21
Makir <04353> [Machir.]
married <03947> [married. Heb. took.]
1 Chronicles 3:4
ruled ......... ruled <04427> [there he reigned.]
Jerusalem <03389> [and in Jerusalem.]
1 Chronicles 23:3
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
thirty .......... 38,000 <08083 07970> [thirty and eight.]
1 Chronicles 27:23
David <05375 01732> [David took not.]
It seems probable, from this passage, that Joab began, by David's order, to number the children, as well as adults, but was prevented from finishing the account, probably because the plague had begun. The numbering of the effective men might have been deemed a political expedient; but pride and ostentation alone could dictate the numbering of minors and infants, especially as God had pronounced the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, innumerable.
twenty <06242> [from twenty.]
promised ... make .... numerous <07235> [he would increase.]
1 Chronicles 29:27
forty years ....... years <08141 0705> [forty years.]
1 Chronicles 23:24
descendants ... Levi .............................. old <03878 01121> [the sons of Levi.]
families ..................... temple <01004> [after the house.]
individually <01538> [by their polls.]
descendants ................................ old <01121> [from the age.]
At first David appointed the Levites to serve from thirty years old and upwards; but considering, probably, that the temple which was about to be built, with its courts, chambers, etc., would require a more numerous ministry, he fixed this period, by this subsequent regulation, at twenty years and upwards. In the time of Moses, the age was from thirty years to fifty: here this latter period is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so laborious now; for the ark being fixed, they had no longer any burdens to carry; and therefore even an old man might continue to serve. See the Note on Nu 8:24.
twenty <06242> [twenty.]
