1 Chronicles 23:5
Moreover, four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David , to praise with them .
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6And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely , Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:31And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles 9:17And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
1 Chronicles 15:16And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 16:38And Obed-edom with their brethren, sixty and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
1 Chronicles 23:30And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at evening;
1 Chronicles 26:1Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was 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 →