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What Does 1 Chronicles 9:29 Mean?

Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. instruments: or, vessels

Context

27

And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.

28

And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale . bring: Heb. bring them in by tale, and carry them out by tale

29

Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. instruments: or, vessels

30

And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.

31

And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans. set: or, trust in: or, on flat plates, or, slices

Commentary

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(29) Care of the ordinary vessels; that is, all those which were used in the daily service of the sanctuary (“vessels . . . instruments:” the same Hebrew term, *kélîm,* vasa, σκεύη)*;* as also supervision of the stores of flour, wine, oil, incense, and spicery, which were adjuncts of meat offerings and libations, and the holy unguents (Exodus 25:6).

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.

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