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1 Chronicles 22
¹⁵ Moreover, there are many workmen with you, stonecutters and masons of stone and carpenters, and all men who are skillful in every kind of work.
¹⁶ Of the gold, the silver and the bronze and the iron there is no limit. Arise and work, and may the Lord be with you."
¹⁷ David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,
¹⁸ "Is not the Lord your God with you? And has He not given you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord and before His people.
¹⁹ Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord."
1 Chronicles 23
¹ Now when David reached old age, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
² And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites.
³ The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.
⁴ Of these, 24,000 were to oversee the work of the house of the Lord; and 6,000 were officers and judges,
⁵ and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 were praising the Lord with the instruments which David made for giving praise.
⁶ David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.