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1 Chronicles 23 Bible study: No longer carrying
When David says the Levites "will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels" (23:26), he lays down the very task Numbers 1:50 gave them, with the same Hebrew verb and the same words for the tabernacle and its vessels. And Aaron is set apart "to minister to him, and to bless in his name" (23:13) in the words Deuteronomy 10:8 used of the whole tribe of Levi.
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“and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the evening;”
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Old, and making ready
The chapter opens with one sentence: "Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel" (23:1) (tap old). Then "He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites" (23:2). "The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand" (23:3). Then David gives them their work: "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges" (23:4) (tap oversee), "four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise" (23:5). The instruments are David's own: "which I made". In the chapter before, David had said of the house, "I will therefore make preparation for it" (22:5); here he sets Levites over "the work of the LORD’s house" (23:4).
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The Hebrew word behind it
בָּדַלbadalsay ba-DAL
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "divide, separate", and among its senses, "separate, set apart"; in the form used here, "be separated". Strong's: "to divide". "Aaron was separated that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons forever" (23:13). Moses used the verb of the whole tribe: "At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi" (Deuteronomy 10:8), and Numbers has it of the Levites: "Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel" (Numbers 8:14). 1 Chronicles has it three times: of the Gadites who "joined David" (12:8), of Aaron here, and of the singers David and the captains "set apart for the service" (25:1). Its first use in the Hebrew Bible is "God divided the light from the darkness" (Genesis 1:4).
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1 Chronicles 23 Bible study questions
- 1Old and full of days, David set the Levites in order for the work of the LORD's house, and they were counted by his last words (23:1-6, 23:27). Who made you ready to serve, and who might you be making ready?
- 2Moses' sons were "named among the tribe of Levi" (23:14), not set apart with Aaron and his sons (23:13). How do you feel about serving without a title or a name that stands out?
- 3Some Levites' work was to stand every morning and evening to thank and praise the LORD (23:30). What would change if your days began and ended with thanks?
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