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Nu 3:32 Strong Concordance And Eleazar [0499] the son [01121] of Aaron [0175] the priest [03548] shall be chief [05387] over the chief [05387] of the Levites [03881], and have the oversight [06486] of them that keep [08104] the charge [04931] of the sanctuary [06944].
  King James And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
chief--rather, "chiefs" of the Levites. Three persons are mentioned as chiefs of these respective divisions [Num 3:24, Num 3:30, Num 3:35]. And Eleazar presided over them; whence he is called "the second priest" (Kg2 25:18); and in the case of the high priest's absence from illness or other necessary occasions, he performed the duties (Kg1 4:4).
 
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4 And Benaiah [01141] the son [01121] of Jehoiada [03077] was over the host [06635]: and Zadok [06659] and Abiathar [054] were the priests [03548]:
18 And the captain [07227] of the guard [02876] took [03947] Seraiah [08304] the chief [07218] priest [03548], and Zephaniah [06846] the second [04932] priest [03548], and the three [07969] keepers [08104] of the door [05592]:
35 And the chief [05387] of the house [01004] of the father [01] of the families [04940] of Merari [04847] was Zuriel [06700] the son [01121] of Abihail [032]: these shall pitch [02583] on the side [03409] of the tabernacle [04908] northward [06828].
30 And the chief [05387] of the house [01004] of the father [01] of the families [04940] of the Kohathites [06956] shall be Elizaphan [0469] the son [01121] of Uzziel [05816].
24 And the chief [05387] of the house [01004] of the father [01] of the Gershonites [01649] shall be Eliasaph [0460] the son [01121] of Lael [03815].
34 And those that were numbered [06485] of them, according to the number [04557] of all the males [02145], from a month [02320] old [01121] and upward [04605], were six [08337] thousand [0505] and two hundred [03967].
31 And their charge [04931] shall be the ark [0727], and the table [07979], and the candlestick [04501], and the altars [04196], and the vessels [03627] of the sanctuary [06944] wherewith they minister [08334], and the hanging [04539], and all the service [05656] thereof.
24 And the chief [05387] of the house [01004] of the father [01] of the Gershonites [01649] shall be Eliasaph [0460] the son [01121] of Lael [03815].
18 And the captain [07227] of the guard [02876] took [03947] Seraiah [08304] the chief [07218] priest [03548], and Zephaniah [06846] the second [04932] priest [03548], and the three [07969] keepers [08104] of the door [05592]: