1 Chronicles 23:5

and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges;

6And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:31(6-16) And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.

1 Chronicles 9:17And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brother Shallum the chief;

1 Chronicles 15:16And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren 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 brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jedithun and Hosah to be door-keepers;

1 Chronicles 23:30and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;

1 Chronicles 26:1For the courses of the doorkeepers: 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 →

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