Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
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- WEB Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and porters.
- BSB were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.
- NKJV were over the burden bearers and were overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. And some of the Levites were scribes, officers, and gatekeepers.
- NASB They were also in charge of the burden bearers, and supervised all the workmen from job to job; and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers.
- NLT were put in charge of the laborers of the various trades. Still others assisted as secretaries, officials, and gatekeepers.
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Levites also oversaw the laborers and served as scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. The whole project was well-organized with every role faithfully filled.
Overview
The Chronicler, ever attentive to the Levites, notes their varied roles in supervising and supporting the work. This careful organization reflects the dignity of ordered service in God's house (cf. 1 Chronicles 23-26). The verse shows the body of God's servants working together toward a common holy purpose.
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- Neh 4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
- 2 Chr 2:18And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
- 1 Chr 9:17And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
- 1 Chr 16:42And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
- 1 Chr 16:38And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
- 1 Chr 15:18And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
- 1 Chr 26:1–19Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
- 1 Chr 23:4–5Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
- 1 Chr 26:29–30Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
- 2 Chr 19:11And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king’s matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
- 2 Chr 8:10And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
- 2 Chr 8:14And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- 2 Chr 2:10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
- Jer 8:8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
- Matt 26:3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
- Ezra 7:6–7This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
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