- after your courses:
- The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon, concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to continually. Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the priests and Levites to attend to their several duties, and encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not retrenched anything. He merely enforced what had been established in the law, and in the regulations made by David and the contemporary prophets: "the commandment of the king....was by the word of the Lord." "So when Davidª was oldª° and fullª° of days,ª he made¹¹ Solomonª his sonª king²° over¹ Israel.ª ... And his brethren,ª menª of valour,ª [were] two thousandª and sevenª hundredª chiefª fathers,ª whom kingª Davidª made rulersª° over¹ the Reubenites,ª the Gadites,ª and the halfª tribeª of Manasseh,ª for every¹ matterª pertaining to God,ª and affairsª of the king.ª" {1Ch 23:1-26:32}
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