1 Chronicles 23:5

and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, 'with instruments that I made for praising,' [saith David.]

Young's Literal Translation

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

6And David distributeth them into courses: 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 Jehovah, from the resting of the ark,

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

1 Chronicles 15:16And David saith to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brethren 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 brethren, sixty and eight, 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 Jehovah, and so at evening;

1 Chronicles 26:1For the courses of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites [is] 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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