Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

The sons of levi

By their polls

General references

Bible References

The sons of levi

Numbers 10:17
Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father’s household.
Numbers 2:32
These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.
Numbers 3:15
Number the sons of Levi by their fathers’ households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number.”
Numbers 4:34
So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ households,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head
Numbers 3:47
you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),

General references

Numbers 4:35
from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.