1 Chronicles 23:1

_SO WHEN DAVID WAS OLD AND FULL OF DAYS, HE MADE SOLOMON HIS SON KING OVER ISRAEL._ When David was old ... he made Solomon ... king. This brief statement, which comprises the substance of 1 Kings 1:32, is made here solely to introduce an account of the preparations carried on by David during the latter years of his life for providing a national place of worship....

1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another....

CHAPTER XXIII _David makes Solomon king_, 1. _Numbers the Levites, and appoints them their work_, 2-5. _The sons of Levi, Gershom, Kohath, Merari, and their_ _descendants_, 6-12. _The sons of Amram, and their descendants_, 13. _The sons of Moses, and their descendants_, 14-24. _David appoints the Levites to wait on the priests for the_ _service of the sanctuary_, 25-32. NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII Verse 1 Chronicles 23:1. _DAVID WAS OLD AND FULL OF DAYS_] On the phra

See the marginal references and notes. 1 Chronicles 23:28 give the most complete account in Scripture of the nature of the Levitical office....

EXPOSITION This chapter is the first of four employed on the subject of the Levites and the services distributed among them. The twenty-four orders of priests, sons of Aaron, occupy 1 Chronicles 24:1. The twenty-four orders of the singers and musicians occupy the contents of 1 Chronicles 25:1. And the divisions of the porters, with their gates; and of those Levites who had the keeping of the treasures of the house of God; and the officers and judges, fill up 1 Chronicles 26:1. After which the compiler is again awhile clear of the Levitical tribe. Returning to our present chapter, it gives an account of the numbers of the Levites, of their classification, of David's

SO WHEN DAVID WAS OLD AND FULL OF DAYS,.... Perhaps was now in the last year of his age, about seventy years old, though before he was bedridden; see 1 Chronicles 28:2, HE MADE SOLOMON HIS SON KING OVER ISRAEL; declared him to be his successor; this was before the affair of Adonijah, for then he ordered him to be anointed king, and placed on the throne; and this aggravated the rebellion of Adonijah, that it was against the declared and known will of his father....

2. THE NUMBERING AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE LEVITES CHAPTER 23 _ 1. Solomon made king (1 Chronicles 23:1)_ 2. The number of the Levites (1 Chronicles 23:2) 3. The Gershonites (1 Chronicles 23:7) 4. The sons of Kohath (1 Chronicles 23:12) 5. The sons of Merari (1 Chronicles 23:21) 6. The service of the Levites (1 Chronicles 23:24) David, in h

1 Chronicles 23:1 to 1 Chronicles 24:31. THE LEVITES AND THE PRIESTS. The Chronicler implies that the organisation of the Levites and priests and the settling of their duties as existing in his day was all the work of David. 1 Chronicles 23:5. princes of the sanctuary: a title corresponding to an official in Babylonian sanctuaries of earlier days, and probably borrowed and adapted by the returned exiles; it is not identical with the princes of God. 1 Chronicles 23:6. An enumeration of the sons of Levi, and the sacred duties of the various Levitical families....

OLD AND FULL OF DAYS. Compare Abraham (Genesis 25:8), and Isaac (Genesis 35:29). David horn in 990. Now in his seventieth year. FULL OF. satisfied with. MADE SOLOMON HIS SON KING. During his lifetime. This was. common practice in those days; and these co-regnant kings explain many chronological problems....

LESSON ELEVEN 23-24 THE LEVITES AND THEIR DUTIES 15. THE LEVITES AND THEIR WORK (Chapter 23) INTRODUCTION The successful functioning of the Temple required a careful organization of the priesthood. All of the Levites were appointed special assignments with regard to the Temple. TEXT 1 Chronicles 23:1. Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3. And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. 4, Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and Judges 5. and four thousand were do