1 Chronicles 23:29

_BOTH FOR THE SHEWBREAD, AND FOR THE FINE FLOUR FOR MEAT OFFERING, AND FOR THE UNLEAVENED CAKES, AND FOR THAT WHICH IS BAKED IN THE PAN, AND FOR THAT WHICH IS FRIED, AND FOR ALL MANNER OF MEASURE AND SIZE;_ For all manner of measure and size - i:e., to see that all things used in the Lord's house should be according to the standard of the sanctuary....

24-32 Now the people of Israel were so many, there should be more employed in the temple service, that every Israelite who brought an offering might find a Levite ready to help him. When more work is to be done, it is pity but there should be more workmen. A new heart, a spiritual mind, which delights greatly in God's commandments, and can find a refreshing feast in his ordinances, forms the great distinction between the true Christian and all other men in the world. To the spiritual man every service will yield satisfaction. He will be ever abounding in the work of the Lord; being never so happy as when employed for such a good Master, in so pleasant a service. He will not regard whether he is called to take the lead, or to keep the charge of others who are placed over him. May we seek and serve the Lord uprightly, and leave all the rest to his disposal, by faith in his word....

Verse 1 Chronicles 23:29. _BOTH FOR THE SHEW-BREAD_] It was the priests' office to place this bread before the Lord, and it was their privilege to feed on the old loaves when they were replaced by the new. Some of the rabbins think that the priests sowed, reaped, ground, kneaded, and baked the grain of which the _shew-bread_ was made. This appears to be a conceit. Jerome, in his comment on Malachi 1:6, mentions it in these words: "Panes propositionis quos, juxta traditiones Hebraicas, ipsi serere, ipsi demetere, ipsi molere, ipsi coquere debebatis." _FOR ALL MANNER OF MEASURE AND SIZE_] The _standards_ of all _weights_ and _measures_ were kept at the sanctuary, and by those there deposited all the _weights_ and _measures_ of the land w

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

BOTH FOR THE SHEWBREAD,.... Also to make and get that ready every week for the priests to set on the shewbread table, when they took off the other that had stood a week, see 1 Chronicles 9:32 AND FOR THE FINE FLOUR FOR MEAT OFFERING, AND FOR THE UNLEAVENED CAKES, AND FOR THAT WHICH IS BAKED IN THE PAN, AND FOR THAT WHICH IS FRIED; to deliver out the flour of which these several things were made, see 1 Chronicles 9:31, and Leviticus 2:1, AND FOR ALL MANNER OF MEASURES AND SIZE; AS THE HIN AND THE EPHAH, and the several parts of them for things both liquid and dry, which were in their keeping, and according to which they gave out the proper quantity of oil, and wine, a

SHEWBREAD (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 25:30). _...

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....

BOTH. And. See note above. MEAT OFFERING. meal offering. Hebrew. _minha._ App-43. MEASURE AND SIZE. The standards were committed to the Levites. Honesty in dealing is part of true religion. Compare Leviticus 19:36; Deuteronomy 25:15.Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:23.Micah 6:11. If this be so in the secular sphere, how much more in sacred things....

Duties of the Levites 28. _their office_was _to wait on_ Literally, _their station was at the hand of_. For the phrase _at the hand of_cp. Psalms 123:2, _as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master_. _the chambers_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 9:26, note....