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
The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
Numbers 2:32
These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
Numbers 3:15
"Count the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward."
Numbers 4:34
Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
"Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
Numbers 3:47
you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

General references

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