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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:28 - 23:28
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Their appointed place or post was at the hand of the sons of Aaron, i.e., they were ready to the priest's hand, to aid him in carrying on the service of the house of God. “Over the courts and the cells (of the courts; cf. 1Ch 9:26), and the purifying of every holy thing,” i.e., of the temple rooms and the temple vessels. On לְ before כָּל־קֹדֶשׁ, used for mediate connection after the stat. const., cf. Ew. §289, b. עֲבֹדַת וּמַעֲשֵׂה, and for the performance of the service of the house of God. Before מעשׂה, עַל is to be supplied from the preceding. The individual services connected with the worship are specialized in 1Ch 23:29-31, and introduced by the preposition לְ. For the bread of the pile, i.e., the shew-bread (see on Lev 24:8.), viz., to prepare it; for the laying of the bread upon the table was the priest's business. For fine meal (סֹלֶת, see on Lev 2:1) for the meat-offering and unleavened cakes (הַמַּצֹּות רְקִיקֵי, see on Lev 2:4), and for the pans, i.e., that which was baked in pans (see on Lev 2:5), and for that which was roasted (מֻרְבֶּכֶת, see on Lev 6:14), and for all measures of capacity and measures of length which were kept by the Levites, because meal, oil, and wine were offered along with the sacrifices in certain fixed quantities (cf. e.g., Exo 29:40; Exo 30:24), and the Levites had probably to watch over the weights and measures in general (Lev 19:35).