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What does 1 Chronicles 15:4 mean?
"David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:"
— 1 Chronicles 15:4 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
Explanation
First Chronicles 15:4 is a simple, direct statement: David called together two specific groups of people — "the sons of Aaron" (the priests) and "the Levites" more broadly. On its own, this looks like a minor administrative note, but it marks
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