Geneva Bible Notes (1560): 1 Chronicles 23

^{1 !} Dauid being olde, ordeineth Salomon King.

^{3 !} He causeth the Leuites to be nombred.

^{4 /} Or, to haue ??? ouer.

^{4 !} And assigneth them to their offices.

^{5 /} Ebr. I made, meaning Dauid.

^{7 /} Or, Libni, {Chap. 6,17}

^{11 /} Or, ???

^{13 !} Aaron and his sonnes are for the hie Priest.

^{13 a} That is, to serue in the moste holy place & to consecrate the holy things.

^{14 b} Thei were but of the ordre of the Leuites & not of the Priests as Aarons sonnes.

^{14 !} The sonnes of Moses.

^{17 c} The Scripture vseth to call chief or the first borne, althogh he be alone & there be none borne after, {Matt. 1,25}.

^{22 d} Meaning their cousins.

^{24 e} Dauid chose the Leuits twise, first at the age of thirtie, as {ver 3}, & againe afterwarde at twentie, as the necessitie of the office did require: at the beginning they had no charge in the Temple, before their were fiue and twentie yere olde, and had none after fiftie, {Nob. 10,24}

^{28 f} In washing and cleansing all the holy vessels.