1 Chronicles 23:5

and four thousand door-keepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

In Context

4Of the overseers over the works of the house of the Lord there were twenty-four thousand, and there were six thousand scribes and judges;

6And David divided them into daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gedson, Caath, and Merari.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:31the son of Amessias, the son of Bani, the son of Semer,

1 Chronicles 9:17The door-keepers; Salom, Acum, Telmon, and Diman, and their brethren; Salom was the chief;

1 Chronicles 15:16And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.

1 Chronicles 16:38And Abdedom and his brethren were sixty and eight; and Abdedom the son of Idithun, and Osa, were to be door-keepers.

1 Chronicles 23:30and to stand in the morning to praise and give thanks to the Lord, and so in the evening;

1 Chronicles 26:1And for the divisions of the gates: the sons of the Corites were Mosellemia, 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 →

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