1 Chronicles 23:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;

Office was to wait, etc

1 Chronicles 18:17

For the service

Purifying

1 Chronicles 9:28

2 Chronicles 29:5

2 Chronicles 35:3

General references

Ezekiel 40:7

Ezekiel 44:14

Bible References

Office was to wait, etc

and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were first, at the hand of the king.

For the service

Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges;

also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the ministry of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of ministry of the house of the LORD.

Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them before Aaron, the priest, that they may minister unto him.

And against the wall of the house, he built wings round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers round about.

Then Hezekiah commanded that they prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them

Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the princes of the priests and the Levites and of the princes of the fathers of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.

And before this, Eliashib, the priest, had been the overseer of the chamber of the house of our God, and was related to Tobiah,

and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the vessels:

And the chambers were one over another, and thirty-three by order; and they entered supports into the wall of the house round about, upon which the chambers might have hold, but they did not have hold upon the wall of the house.

Over against the twenty cubits which were in the inner court, and over against the pavement which was in the outer court, were the chambers in three stories.

Purifying

And certain of them had the charge of the vessels of ministry, that they should account for them when they were brought in and out.

and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and ye shall sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers and carry forth the filthiness out of the sanctuary.

and said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, who were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, built, that ye not carry it any longer upon your shoulders; serve now the LORD your God and his people Israel

General references

And each chamber was one reed long and one reed broad; and between the chambers were five cubits; and each post of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all the service thereof and for all that shall be done therein.