1 Chronicles 23:5
Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Chronicles 6:31These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house of the Lord, after that the p ark was placed:
1 Chronicles 9:17And the porters were Sellum, and Accub, and Telmon, and Ahiman: and their brother Sellum was the prince,
1 Chronicles 15:16And David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites, to appoint some of their brethren to be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joyful noise might resound on high.
1 Chronicles 16:38And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the son of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters.
1 Chronicles 23:30And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,
1 Chronicles 26:1And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, 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 →