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Today's Bible Reading :: 1 Chronicles 22 - 24 (ESV)

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1 Chronicles 22

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:1 - Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

David Prepares for Temple Building

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 - David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:3 - David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:4 - and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5 - For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.

Solomon Charged to Build the Temple

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:6 - Then he called for Solomon his son and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:7 - David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:8 - But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:9 - Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:10 - He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:11 - “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:12 - Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:13 - Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:14 - With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents[fn] of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:15 - You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:16 - gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The LORD be with you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:17 - David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:18 - “Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not given you peace[fn] on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the LORD and his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:19 - Now set your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the LORD.”
ESV Footnotes
A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
Or rest (see 22:9)

1 Chronicles 23

David Organizes the Levites

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1 - When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:2 - David[fn] assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said,[fn] “shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:6 - And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:7 - The sons of Gershon[fn] were Ladan and Shimei.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:8 - The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:9 - The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:10 - And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:11 - Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, therefore they became counted as a single father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:12 - The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:13 - The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:14 - But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:15 - The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:16 - The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:17 - The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:18 - The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:19 - The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:20 - The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:21 - The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:22 - Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:23 - The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 - These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of fathers’ houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:25 - For David said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:26 - And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:27 - For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:29 - Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:30 - And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the LORD, and likewise at evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:31 - and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32 - Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew He
Hebrew lacks David said
Vulgate (compare Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew to the Gershonite

1 Chronicles 24

David Organizes the Priests

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:1 - The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:2 - But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:3 - With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:4 - Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers’ houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:5 - They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father’s house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:7 - The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:8 - the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:9 - the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:10 - the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:11 - the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:12 - the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:13 - the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:14 - the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:15 - the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:16 - the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:17 - the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:18 - the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:19 - These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:20 - And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:21 - Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:22 - Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:23 - The sons of Hebron:[fn] Jeriah the chief,[fn] Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:24 - The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:25 - The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:26 - The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Jaaziah: Beno.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:27 - The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:28 - Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:29 - Of Kish, the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:30 - The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:31 - These also, the head of each father’s house and his younger brother alike, cast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites.
See the ESV Preface
ESV Footnotes
Compare 23:19; Hebrew lacks Hebron
Compare 23:19; Hebrew lacks the chief
Or his son; also verse 27
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