1 Chronicles 16:6

and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests [are] continually [sounding] with trumpets before the Ark of the Covenant of God.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

In Context

5Asaph the head, and his second Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of psalteries, and with harps; and Asaph is sounding with cymbals;

7On that day, at that time, David has given at the beginning to give thanks to YHWH by the hand of Asaph and his brothers:

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Cross References

Numbers 10:8and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been for a continuous statute to you throughout your generations.

2 Chronicles 5:12and the Levites, the singers, to all of them, to Asaph, to Heman, to Jeduthun, and to their sons, and to their brothers, clothed in white linen, with cymbals, and with psalteries, and harps, are standing on the east of the altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests blowing with trumpets—

2 Chronicles 29:26and the Levites stand with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 16:2-7

The Settlement of the Ark. ( b. c. 1045.) 1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God. 2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord . 3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. 4 And he appointed certain of the… Read the whole commentary →

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