1 Chronicles 23:2
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New International Version (©2011)
He also gathered together all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.

New Living Translation (©2007)
David summoned all the leaders of Israel, together with the priests and Levites.

English Standard Version (©2001)
David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites.

International Standard Version (©2012)
David then gathered together all of the leaders of Israel, including the priests and descendants of Levi.

NET Bible (©2006)
David assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He gathered all the officials of Israel and the priests and Levites.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

American King James Version
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

American Standard Version
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and Levites.

Darby Bible Translation
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

English Revised Version
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he assembled all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

World English Bible
He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Young's Literal Translation
and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. As on an occasion of supreme importance, David, in view of his own death and of his son's succession at the present time, calls together the full council, and the highest possible representative council of the nation. So 1 Chronicles 22:17; 1 Chronicles 24:6; 1 Chronicles 25:1; in which last passage the word "captains" should have have been rendered "princes" (שׂרִי). The arrangement of the Levites, and the distribution of their functions in the presence of the princes, as here described, and as it is even more strongly put (1 Chronicles 25:1), "by" them, simply points to the fact that the ultimate outer authority, as between Church and state, lay with the state. The Church was made for it, not it for the Church. And it was the duty of the state to defend the Church.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel,.... Ordered them to be assembled, partly to acquaint them with his will and pleasure, that Solomon should succeed him in the kingdom; and partly to settle the order of the work and service of the temple; and therefore these were convened

with the priests and Levites; to assign to them their respective places and offices.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

1Ch 23:2-6. Number and Distribution of the Levites.

2. he gathered together all the princes of Israel—All important measures relating to the public interest were submitted for consideration to a general assembly of the representatives of the tribes (1Ch 13:1; 15:25; 22:17; 26:1-32).

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Solomon Reigns
1So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

1 Chronicles 23:1 When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 23:3 The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 28:1 David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the warriors and all the brave fighting men.