1 Chronicles 23:3

23:3 The Levites who were thirty years old and up were counted; there were 38,000 men. ¹ 

1 Chronicles 23:24

23:24 These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. ² 

1 Chronicles 23:2

23:2 David ³  assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

1 Chronicles 23:1

David Organizes the Levites

23:1 When David was old and approaching the end of his life, ⁴  he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

Psalms 72:20

72:20 This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here. ⁵ 

[23:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and their number by their heads, by men, was 38,000.”

[23:24]  ² tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from a son of twenty years and upwards.”

[23:2]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “and full of years.”

[72:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the prayers of David, son of Jesse, are concluded.” As noted earlier, v. 20 appears to be a remnant of an earlier collection of psalms or an earlier edition of the Psalter. In the present arrangement of the Book of Psalms, not all psalms prior to this are attributed to David (see Pss 1-2, 10, 33, 42-50, 66-67, 71-72) and several psalms attributed to David appear after this (see Pss 86, 101, 103, 108-110, 122, 124, 131, 138-145).