The priests, Benaiah and Jahaziel, played the trumpets regularly before the Ark of God’s Covenant.
Parallel translations
- WEB with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
- KJV Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
- BSB and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
- NKJV Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.
- NASB and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
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Quick answer
The priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew trumpets continually before the ark. The priestly trumpets marked God's presence with steady, ongoing worship.
Overview
Trumpets sounded regularly before the ark of the covenant, a priestly duty signaling God's nearness and calling the people to attention. The word continually stresses that worship was to be sustained, not sporadic. This perpetual ministry before God's presence anticipates the believer's call to constant praise and the unending worship of heaven.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 2 Chr 29:26–28The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.
- Num 10:8“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
- 2 Chr 5:12–13also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);
- 2 Chr 13:12Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
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