OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 23:4

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David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

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Verse 4. Overseers. Hebrew shoterim. Septuagint “scribes.” Others suppose “lictors and executioners,” who attended the judges. Grotius.—These were functions from which the priests were exempted; ( Calmet.) so that the Levites alone are meant. Menochius.—Judges. They had to decide the causes of the people. 2 Chronicles 29. D.

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