1 Chronicles 23:5

And four thousand were gatekeepers: and four thousand those who praised the Lord with the instruments which I have made, to praise therewith.

Leeser Tanakh

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 were twenty and four thousand to superintend the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges;

6And David divided them into divisions after the sons of Levi, after Gershon, Kehath, and Merari.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:31(6:16) And these are those whom David appointed for the purpose of conducting the singing in the house of the Lord, after the ark had a resting-place.

1 Chronicles 9:17And the gatekeepers were Shallum, and 'Akkub, and Talmon, and Achiman, and their brethren, Shallum being the chief;

1 Chronicles 15:16And David said to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, to sing aloud, by lifting up the voice for joy.

1 Chronicles 16:38And 'Obed-edom with their brethren, sixty and eight, and 'Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun and Chossah to be gatekeepers;

1 Chronicles 23:30And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and so also at evening,

1 Chronicles 26:1Concerning the divisions of the gatekeepers [who were] of the Korchites: Meshelemyahu the son of Kore, of the sons of Assaph.

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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