1 Chronicles 23:5

and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to YHWH, “with instruments that I made for praising,” [says David.]

Literal Standard Version

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-four thousand [are] to preside over the work of the house of YHWH, and six thousand officers and judges,

6And David distributes them into divisions of the sons of Levi—of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:31And these [are] they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of YHWH, from the resting of the Ark,

1 Chronicles 9:17And the gatekeepers [are] Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers—Shallum [is] the head;

1 Chronicles 15:16And David says to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, to lift up with the voice for joy.

1 Chronicles 16:38both Obed-Edom and their sixty-eight brothers, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, for gatekeepers;

1 Chronicles 23:30and to stand, morning by morning, to give thanks, and to give praise to YHWH, and so at evening;

1 Chronicles 26:1For the divisions of the gatekeepers, of the Korahites: Meshelemiah 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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