1 Chronicles 23:5
and four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised LORD with the instruments which I made, [David said], to praise therewith.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:31And these are those whom David set over the service of song in the house of LORD, after the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles 9:17And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
1 Chronicles 15:16And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 16:38and Obed-edom with their sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [were] to be porters,
1 Chronicles 23:30And to stand every morning to thank and praise LORD, and likewise at evening.
1 Chronicles 26:1For the divisions of the porters: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 23:2-24
The Numbering of the Levites. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 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: 5 Moreover four… Read the whole commentary →