1 Chronicles 23:5
Four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand were to praise Yahweh with the instruments that I made to give praise,” David said.
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6He divided them into groups that corresponded to Levi's sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:31These are the names of the men whom David put in charge of music in the house of Yahweh, after the ark came to rest there.
1 Chronicles 9:17The doorkeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their descendants. Shallum was their leader.
1 Chronicles 15:16David spoke to the leaders of the Levites to assign their brothers to be musicians with musical instruments, stringed instruments, harps and cymbals, playing loudly and joyfully lifting up their voices.
1 Chronicles 16:38Obed Edom with those sixty-eight relatives were included. Obed Edom son of Jeduthun, along with Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.
1 Chronicles 23:30They also stood every morning to thank and praise Yahweh. They also did this in the evening
1 Chronicles 26:1Here were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites, Meshelemiah son of Kore, a descendant of Asaph + 26:1 Asaph is the same person referred to as Ebiasaph in 1 Chron. 9:19. .
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 →