In 1 Chronicles 22, King David carefully gave a list of all the materials his son would need to build the temple after his death. In this chapter, David divided the Levites into organizational lists for the various jobs in and around the temple. He also carefully arranged the \u201cministers of worship\u201d so that good worship would be a part of the temple. David understood the importance of worship better than anyone we find in the Old Testament. He wrote the majority of the psalms and was clearly not afraid of worshiping God in front of people.<\/p>\n
There is an interesting story about worship in the life of another author from a later time. Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265\u20131321) was deeply immersed in meditation during a church service and failed to kneel at the appropriate moment. His enemies hurried to the bishop and demanded that Dante be punished for his sacrilege. He defended himself by saying, “If those who accuse me had had their eyes and minds on God, as I had, they too would have failed to notice events around them, and they most certainly would not have noticed what I was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
“LORD, when we worship You this day, may we be so intense in our worship that we simply forget what others are doing or saying around us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Chronicles 23 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2<\/sup> And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0Now 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.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Of which, twenty and four thousand\u00a0were<\/em>to set forward the work of the house of the\u00a0LORD; and six thousand\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>officers and judges:\u00a0\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover four thousand\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>porters; and four thousand praised the\u00a0LORDwith the instruments which I made,\u00a0said David\u00a0<\/em>, to praise\u00a0therewith\u00a0<\/em>. 6<\/sup>\u00a0And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,\u00a0namely\u00a0<\/em>, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0Of the Gershonites\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>, Laadan, and Shimei.\u00a0\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Laadan; the chief\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>the chief of the fathers of Laadan.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Shimei\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>the sons of Shimei.\u00a0\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>father\u2019s house.\u00a0 12<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the\u00a0LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0Now\u00a0concerning\u00a0<\/em>Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Moses\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>, Gershom, and Eliezer.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>the chief.\u00a0\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And the sons of Eliezer\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.\u00a0\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second. 21<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.\u00a0\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. 24<\/sup>\u00a0These\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers;\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the\u00a0LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0For David said, The\u00a0LORD\u00a0God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:\u00a0\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0And also unto the Levites; they shall no\u00a0more\u00a0<\/em>carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0For by the last words of David the Levites\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>numbered from twenty years old and above:\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0Because their office\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the\u00a0LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;\u00a0\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for\u00a0that which is baked in\u00a0<\/em>the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;\u00a0\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0And to stand every morning to thank and praise the\u00a0LORD, and likewise at even;\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the\u00a0LORD:\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy\u00a0place\u00a0<\/em>, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the\u00a0LORD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1 Chronicles 22, King David carefully gave a list of all the materials his son would need to build the temple after his death. 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