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1 Chronicles 23:2 Explained in Context
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Verse 2. 2And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Solomon's accession is joined to a Levite census.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 23:1–6
Read 1 Chronicles 23:2 with 23:1–6. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: Aged David makes Solomon king, assembles leaders, priests, and Levites, counts 38,000 men age thirty and up, assigns work, officers, judges, gatekeepers, and musicians, and divides Levi's three houses.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 23:2 depends on 23:1–6; isolating “And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Solomon's accession is joined to a Levite census.”
Read 1 Chronicles 23:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 23:1–6 forms the complete movement “Solomon's accession is joined to a Levite census”: Aged David makes Solomon king, assembles leaders, priests, and Levites, counts 38,000 men age thirty and up, assigns work, officers, judges, gatekeepers, and musicians, and divides Levi's three houses.
Verse 1. 1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
Verse 2. 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
Verse 3. 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
Verse 4. 4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
Verse 5. 5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
Verse 6. 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Read 1 Chronicles 23:1–6 — Solomon's accession is joined to a Levite censusSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 23:1–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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