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Selected Verse: 1 Chronicles 23:27 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ch 23:27 |
King James |
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above: |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| By the "last words of David" some understand an historical work on the latter part of his reign, drawn up probably by Gad or Nathan (compare Ch1 27:24; Ch1 29:29). Others suppose that he left behind him a work containing directions for the service of the sanctuary. |
29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.