1st Chronicles Chapter 23 verse 2 Holy Bible
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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And he assembled all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. As on an occasion of supreme importance, David, in view of his own death and of his son's succession at the present time, calls together the full council, and the highest possible representative council of the nation. So 1 Chronicles 22:17; 1 Chronicles 24:6; 1 Chronicles 25:1; in which last passage the word "captains" should have have been rendered "princes" (שׂרִי). The arrangement of the Levites, and the distribution of their functions in the presence of the princes, as here described, and as it is even more strongly put (1 Chronicles 25:1), "by" them, simply points to the fact that the ultimate outer authority, as between Church and state, lay with the state. The Church was made for it, not it for the Church. And it was the duty of the state to defend the Church.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2-5) The numbering of the Levites and their appointments.(2) And he gathered together all the princes of Israel.--The form of the verb (the imperfect with waw conversive) implies that this was done in connection with the transfer of the kingdom to Solomon. The following chapters, therefore, relate to arrangements made by David towards the close of his life. (Comp. 1Chronicles 26:30, "the fortieth year of the reign of David.")The princes of Israel.--Comp. 1Chronicles 13:1; 1Chronicles 15:25; 1Chronicles 22:17. "The princes and the priests and the Levites" together constituted, in the conception of the chronicler, the three estates of the realm: the representatives of all spiritual and temporal authority. David consults with the national assembly in a matter of national concern.
