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1 Chronicles 23:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
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Quick Meaning
Explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 23:24–23:32
Explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying. Read 1 Chronicles 23:25 within 23:24–23:32. The complete unit records: A second count starts at twenty because the settled temple order no longer requires carrying the tabernacle; Levites assist priests with courts, purity, food measures, daily praise, festivals, and custody.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The changed work explains a changed age threshold and turns lists into a practical operating map. In this exact position, the line beginning “For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,…” explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying.
Follow the Context
- A second count starts at twenty because the settled temple order no longer requires carrying the tabernacle; Levites assist priests with courts, purity, food measures, daily praise, festivals, and custody.
- The changed work explains a changed age threshold and turns lists into a practical operating map.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,…”
In plain language: Explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying.
The line beginning “For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,…” explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The adaptation does not permit child labor, hereditary privilege, purity stigma, or copying ancient age and gender rules into modern workplaces.
What Remains True
Explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Worship requires ordered, truthful, skilled, and accountable service, while sacred office, beauty, or scale never determines a person's worth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying, keep it inside 23:24–23:32, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 23:25 explains the change through divine rest, Jerusalem dwelling, and no further tabernacle carrying. Use 23:24–23:32, paraphrase “For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 23:24–23:32 — Levites age twenty and up receive daily temple dutiesSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 23:25 remains within this thought-unit limit: The relation between ages thirty, twenty-five, and twenty across Numbers, Ezra, and Chronicles may reflect task, stage, or editorial development; forced harmonization obscures the data.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 23:24–23:32, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 23:24–23:32
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 23:24–23:32, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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