1 Chronicles 23:5
four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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In Context
6David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:31These are they whom David set over the service of song in the LORD’s house after the ark came to rest there.
1 Chronicles 9:17The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
1 Chronicles 15:16David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
1 Chronicles 16:38and Obed-Edom with their sixty-eight relatives; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1 Chronicles 23:30and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the evening;
1 Chronicles 26:1For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the 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 →