“David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 23 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.