1 Chronicles 23:5

and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.

Updated 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 Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:31the son of Amaziah, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

1 Chronicles 9:17The doorkeepers; Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum 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 Obed-edom and his brethren were sixty and eight; and Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, were to be doorkeepers.

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 Korahites were Meshelemiah, 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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