Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 23:27

27 For by the last words of David , the Levites were numbred from twenty years old and above.

By his last Order and Constitution made by Gods Direction and by the Spirit, as hath been once and again noted and proved before. This is here added to signifie that this great Affair was thus settled by David not in his younger years, when it might have been thought to have the Effect of youthful Heat, and Confidence, and Presumption, and Rashness, but when he was come to the greatest Maturity, when he was Old and near his Death, and going to give up his Account to his Lord and Maker, of all his Actions, and particularly of the Alterations which he made in the Service of God; which he declared was done by the Spirit of God. These were in a manner his dying Words, which usually make the deepest Impressions.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪