1st Chronicles Chapter 23 verse 27 Holy Bible
For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.
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So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.
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For by the last words of David was this [done], -- the numbering of the sons of Levi from twenty years old and upward.
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For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
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For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
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For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.
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for by the last words of David they `took' the number of the sons of Levi from a son of twenty years and upward,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - The... words of David. Although there are many instances of the expression, "the words of" David or some other king, as equivalent to his "doings" (1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29), and not a few instances of the same phrase, standing for the "account" or "history' of any one (1 Chronicles 27:24; 1 Chronicles 29:29, three times; 2 Chronicles 9:29), the expression here may rather parallel passages like 2 Samuel 23:1; 2 Chronicles 29:30.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) For by the last words of David.--That is, owing to his last commands. So Vulg. (juxta praecepta David novissima) and Syriac.The Levites were numbered.--Literally, these (are), i.e., according to the later idiom, this (is) the enumeration of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and upward. The verse seems to mean that David towards the end of his reign instituted a census of Levites from twenty instead of thirty years old. Thus, the Authorised Version gives the sense. Others render, For in the Last words (i.e., records) of David is the number of the sons of Levi from twenty, &c., as if the chronicler were referring to some historical work in which this special census was recorded. (Comp. 1Chronicles 29:29. ) The verse is a parenthetic remark of the chronicler, interrupting the speech of David, which, however, is resumed in 1Chronicles 23:28, and continued to the end of the chapter.
