²⁸For their office¹ was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God; ¹ Hebrew _their station was at the hand of the sons of Aaron_. See Nehemiah xi. 24. =28.= _their office was to wait on_] Literally, as margin, _their station was at the hand of_. For the phrase _at the hand of_ compare Psalms cxxiii. 2, _as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master_. _the chambers_] compare ix. 26, note. ²⁹for the shewbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; =29.= _for the shewbread_] i.e. for the preparation of the shewbread (compare ix. 32). _that which is soaked_] Compare Leviticus vi. 21 [14, Hebrew]. _for all manner of measure and size_] i.e. for measuring the component parts of the meal-offering, etc. ³⁰and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even; =30.= _every morning ... and likewise at even_] Corresponding with the daily morning and evening sacrifice; compare Exodus xxix. 38, 39. ³¹and to offer all burnt offerings unto the LORD, in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before the LORD: =31.= _to offer all burnt offerings_] This was the duty not of the Levites, who were to stand near-by praising Jehovah (verse 30), but of the priests. The apparent difficulty is due to a mistranslation: render =and= (to stand, i.e. assist) =at every offering of burnt offerings=. _the set feasts_] i.e. the yearly feasts; Exodus xxiii. 14‒17. ³²and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of the LORD. =32.= _the charge of the holy place_] This duty is assigned to Levites in Numbers iii. 28, 32; is restricted and confined to such Levites as were sons of Kohath in Numbers iv. 15; and according to a variant tradition in Numbers xviii. 5 is assigned to the priests. _the charge of the sons of Aaron_] Compare Numbers xviii. 1‒7. CHAPTER XXIV. =1‒19.= DAVID’S ORGANISATION OF THE PRIESTS BY COURSES. ¹And the courses of the sons of Aaron _were these_. The sons of Aaron; Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. =1.= _the sons of Aaron_] So vi. 3; Exodus vi. 23. ²But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office. =2.= _Nadab and Abihu died_] by fire from heaven as a punishment for sacrilege――so Leviticus x. 1, 2; Numbers iii. 4.