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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 6:48
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Their brethren also the Levites, etc.] Who were not skilled in singing, and employed in that service, even the rest of the Kohathites, Gershonites, and Merarites: were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God; some were porters at the gates; others had the care of the vessels; others slew the beasts for sacrifices, flayed them, and cut them up, and brought the pieces to the altar of burnt offerings, for the priests to offer. Ver. 49-53. But Aaron and his sons, etc.] Those that descended from him, though of the same tribe of Levi were all priests: and they offered upon the altar of burnt offerings; the daily sacrifice, and all the offerings of the people brought to them: and on the altar of incense; they burnt incense night and morning: and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy; such as were high priests of the line of Eleazar, whose work it was to go into the most holy place once a year: to make atonement for all Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God commanded; in (<031601>Leviticus 16:1) which see; and on mention of this, a list of the high priests from Aaron, in the line of Eleazar, is given, to the times of Solomon, in the four following verses, just in the same order as in (<130604>1 Chronicles 6:4-8). Ver. 54-81. Now these are their dwelling places, etc.] The dwelling places of the priests and Levites, assigned and given to them in the several tribes of Israel; and the account of them agrees with that in (<062101>Joshua 21:1) with some few variations of names of places, which have been there observed: see the notes there; only in (<130657>1 Chronicles 6:57-60) two cities are omitted, Juttah and Gibeon, through want of care in transcribing, since they are said to be “thirteen”, as they should be, whereas eleven only are mentioned. The Jews say f57, the cities of the suburbs (those here mentioned) ceased from the time the first temple was destroyed; and yet Ezra, who lived after the captivity, and the building the second temple, here gives a very particular account of them; the suburbs belonging to every city, which he particularly mentions, were 2000 cubits, both to the cities of refuge, and the rest, (<043505>Numbers 35:5) Hebron, the first city mentioned in the next verse, was a city of refuge, and had suburbs of such a space; and it is remarkable, that some of the temples with the Heathens, which were asylums, or places of refuge, had the space of 2000 paces assigned them for the same sanctity and privilege f58.
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