Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

Twenty years old

Bible References

Twenty years old

Numbers 4:3
from 30 years and older through the age of 50 years, from everyone who can enter the service to perform work at the Tent of Meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the descendants of Levi according to their ancestral households, with family heads documented according to the names of persons 20 years and older who were appointed to perform work in service to the Temple of the LORD.

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