1 Chronicles 23:5
3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
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Compare
- BSB
- 4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
- KJV
- Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
- WEB
- four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
- ASV
- and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise therewith.
- DARBY
- and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, [said David,] to praise [therewith].
- BLB
- and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to YHWH with instruments that I have made for giving praise.”
- ÅB
- og fire tusen skal være dørvoktere, og fire tusen skal lovsynge Herren til de instrumenter jeg har latt gjøre til lovsangen.
- OTB
- og fire tusen var portvoktere,
og fire tusen var dedikert til å prise Herren med instrumentene
som David laget for tilbedelse. - B1930
- og fire tusen skal være dørvoktere, og fire tusen skal lovsynge Herren til de instrumenter jeg har latt gjøre til lovsangen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 8:14
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
Read in contextAmos 6:5
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Read in contextPsalms 87:7
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Read in context2 Chronicles 29:25–26
And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
Read in context1 Chronicles 6:31–48
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
Read in contextEzra 7:7
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Read in context1 Chronicles 25:1–7
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
Read in context1 Chronicles 9:17–27
And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
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