David Organizes the Levites

 

 

1 Chronicles 23:1-6

 

April 10, 2023

 

David Organizes the Levites

When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.  The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men. “Twenty-four thousands of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, 6,000 shall be officers and judges, 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”  And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

David was old and full of days, my daughter came for my birthday and said Dad you do understand you are no longer in the fourth quarter, you’re in overtime.  It sounds as if David was in overtime, and he made sure that his young son had all he needed to complete the task, that God had given him.

That brings a question: how have you prepared your children to finish the task that God has for them.  Have you invested in their spiritual growth?  And I am not talking about taking them to church, but about by example living in such a manner that they have seen God work in your life.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice