John Gill Commentary 2 Chronicles 23:2

"And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers` [houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem." — 2 Chronicles 23:2 (ASV)

2 Chronicles 23:9

And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons ,
&c.] To be their ministers and servants:

they [are] wholly given to him out of the children of Israel :
even all of them entirely, none excepted; the whole tribe which were not in the priestly office; those were separated from the rest of the tribes of Israel, and appointed for the service of the priests: or they were "given, given" ^F17 ; which is repeated not only to show that they were wholly given, as we render it, but to denote the certainty of it, that they were really given; and especially to declare the freeness of the gift;

The priests had them as free gifts, nor did they pay them any thing for, their service; they were maintained another way, namely, by the tithes of the people; and indeed the priests received a tithe out of the tithe of the Levites; so far were they from contributing any thing to their support, or in consideration of the service they did them.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: (Mynwtn Mynwtn) "dati, dati", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius.