Today’s passage: 1 Chronicles 6:1-81
Helpful thoughts:
- Today, we read about the Levites, including the High Priests, musicians, and where the Levites lived throughout Israel.
- Today’s reading is longer than usual for these devotionals, but still shorter than the average chapter in any book you would read. You can do this!
- Hilkiah (Verse 13) was the High Priest who “discovered” the written law during Josiah’s reign (2 Kings 22:8-13).
- The Levites did not have their own allotment of land in Israel but were instead given cities throughout. They served as priests, therefore “the Lord was their inheritance” (Deuteronomy 18:1-2).
Questions to consider:
- In what way would the Levites have been privileged and benefactors of God’s graciousness in being given these wonderful responsibilities within Israel? In what ways would their people have felt slighted without having their own territory? What would have to be true of their walk with the Lord to swing them toward either perspective?
- Were these leaders godly men simply by birth? What has to be true of any heart to be a true child of God? (Romans 2:29)
- Whether before Christ came, or in our present day, who does a person belong to the family of God (Romans 4:1-5, 9:6-8)