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 hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.
Numbers 2:32
These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 3:15
'Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'
Numbers 4:34
And Moses numbereth -- Aaron also, and the princes of the company -- the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;
Numbers 3:47
thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is;

General references

Numbers 4:35
from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,