These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the LORD’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 24. Old. See verse 3, and Numbers 4:3.—And upwards; as long as they were able to serve. They were excused from carrying the tabernacle, and so forth at fifty years of age. Numbers 8:25. Abulens. Menochius.—To those who were turned of thirty, the higher offices were entrusted; while the Levites began at twenty, to exercise themselves in things of less consequence, under the direction of their elder brethren. Tirinus.—The kings might declare, by the advice of the Sanhedrim, what laws were of a temporary nature. Grot. D.