Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
Chief - Next under the high - priest; whence he is called the second priest, II Kings 25:18, and in case of the high - priest's absence by sickness or other necessary occasions, he was to perform his work, and he had a superiority over all the rest of the priests and Levites. The chief of the Levites - That is, over those three persons, who were each the chief of their several families, Numbers 3:24, Numbers 3:31, Numbers 3:34.
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