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
And the tabernacle was already taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, every one head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers 2:32
These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel by the houses of their fathers; all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 3:15
Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers, by their families; thou shalt number every male from a month old and upward.
Numbers 4:34
So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of Kohath after their families and after the houses of their fathers,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel by their families, by the houses of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls,
Numbers 3:47
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is of twenty gerahs).

General references

Numbers 4:35
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.