Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 18:23

23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity : it shall be a statute for ever throughout their generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

(i. e.) The punishment due not onely for their own, but also for the peoples, miscarriage, if it be committed through their connivance or negligence. And this was the reason why the Priests withstood their King Uzzia[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ when he would have burnt incense to the Lord, 2 [illegible: 1 word]. 26. 17, 18.