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}
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.