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1Now David was old and full of days when he made Solomon his son king over Israel.[#1Ki 1:33–39; 1Ch 28:5; 29:28]
2So he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites.
3The Levites from thirty years old and up were counted, and their head count of men was thirty-eight thousand.[#1Ch 23:24]
4Twenty-four thousand of these, David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord ; six thousand shall be officers and judges,[#Dt 16:18; 2Ch 19:8]
5four thousand shall be gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”[#2Ch 29:25–26; Am 6:5]
6David assigned them to divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.[#2Ch 8:14; #1Ch 6:1]
7From the Gershonites:
12The sons of Kohath were[#Ex 6:18]
21The sons of Merari were
24These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ houses, the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were registered by the number of their names according to their head count, those doing the work for the service of the house of the Lord , from twenty years old and up.[#Nu 10:17, 21]
25For David said, “The Lord , the God of Israel, has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever.[#1Ch 22:18]
26And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its implements for its service.”[#Nu 4:5; 7:9]
27For by the last words of David, the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and up;[#1Ch 23:24]
28because their duty was to help the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the Lord , in the courts and in the chambers, with the purifying of all holy things, even the work of service of the house of God,[#Ne 13:9]
29and with the showbread, the fine flour for a grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity and size,[#Ex 25:30; #Lev 19:35–36]
30to stand morning by morning to thank and praise the Lord , and likewise in the evening,[#1Ch 9:33]
31and to offer up all burnt offerings to the Lord , for Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, by number as the judgment concerning them, continually before the Lord ,[#Isa 1:13–14]
32and that they should keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary and attend to the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord .[#Nu 1:53; 3:6–9]