2 Chronik 31:17

Schlachter Bibel

Und zwar erfolgte die Eintragung der Priester nach ihren Vaterhäusern, und die der Leviten von zwanzig Jahren an und darüber mit Rücksicht auf ihre Ämter, die sie abteilungsweise zu versehen hatten.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
(die Priester aber wurden aufgezeichnet nach ihren Vaterhäusern, und die Leviten von zwanzig Jahren und darüber waren in ihrem Dienst nach ihren Ordnungen);

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

genealogy: Numbers 3:15, Numbers 3:20, Numbers 4:38, Numbers 4:42, Numbers 4:46, Numbers 17:2, Numbers 17:3, Ezra 2:59

twenty: Numbers 4:3, Numbers 8:24, 1 Chronicles 23:24, 1 Chronicles 23:27

by their courses: 2 Chronicles 31:2, 1 Chronicles 24:20-31, 1 Chronicles 25:1 - 1 Chronicles 26:32

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers,.... As to the priests registered according to their families from the age before observed, a portion was given: so to the Levites,

from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their courses; for though originally they were not admitted into the tabernacle till twenty five years of age, nor to officiate till thirty, but in David's time they were allowed at twenty years of age and upwards, 1 Chronicles 23:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Both to the genealogy of the priests ... - Some prefer: “And as for the list of the priests, it was according to the houses of their fathers, and that of the Levites was from twenty years,” etc. The writer states the nature of the lists which guided the officers who made the distributions. Three lists are enumerated one of the priests made out according to families; one of the Levites, including all above 20 years of age (see the marginal reference), and made out according to courses; and a third 2 Chronicles 31:18 of the priestly and Levitical families.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 31:17. From twenty years old — Moses had ordered that the Levites should not begin their labour till they were thirty years of age; but David changed this order, and obliged them to begin at twenty.