1 Chronicles 23:5
Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.
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6And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:31And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles 9:17And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.
1 Chronicles 15:16And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.
1 Chronicles 16:38And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with their brothers, sixty-eight of them, to be door-keepers:
1 Chronicles 23:30They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening;
1 Chronicles 26:1For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.
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 →