Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The principal fathers over against their younger brethren - i. e., "all the Levitical houses enumerated drew lots in their courses on equal terms, the older families having no advantage over the younger ones." As there were 24 courses of the priests, so we must suppose that there were 24 of the Levites, though the number of the families as given in the text 1 Chr. 23:7-23; I Chronicles 24:20-30 is 25.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Chronicles 24:31:
Joshua 7:14
1 Chronicles 25:8
Luke 10:32
Acts 2:29
1 Corinthians 9:13
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