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 ones at the hand of the king.

For the service

Of these, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of Jehovah, and six thousand officers and judges.

And for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Jehovah;

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

And against the wall of the house he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, of the temple and of the sanctuary. And he made rooms all around.

And Hezekiah commanded storehouses to be prepared in the house of Jehovah. And they prepared,

Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers of Israel at Jerusalem in the rooms of the house of Jehovah.

And before this, Eliashib the priest, who was set over the rooms of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah.

And I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was near the room of the rulers, above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door.

And the side chambers were a side chamber over a side chamber, three stories, and thirty times. And they entered the wall of the house for the side chambers all around, that they might be fastened, for they were not fastened to the wall of the house.

Across from the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and across from the pavement which was for the outer court, gallery was on gallery in three stories.

Purifying

And certain of them were over the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by count.

And he said to them, Hear me, Levites, now sanctify yourselves and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.

And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. It shall not be a burden on your shoulders. And serve Jehovah your God and His people Israel,

General references

And a room was one reed long and one reed wide. And between the rooms were five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.

But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all its service, and for all that shall be done in it.