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2 Chronicles 29:26

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 29:26 · King James Version
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  • WEB The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.
  • BSB The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
  • NKJV The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
  • NASB The Levites stood with the musical instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
  • NLT The Levites then took their positions around the Temple with the instruments of David, and the priests took their positions with the trumpets.

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The Levites stand with David's instruments and the priests with trumpets. The two appointed groups are arrayed to lead the praise accompanying the offering.

Overview

The Chronicler pictures the Levites with David's musical instruments and the priests with their trumpets, each in their God-given role. The orderly arrangement reflects the harmony of restored worship under proper authority. Such ordered praise of God anticipates the worship of the redeemed, who together magnify the Lamb who was slain.

Cross-references & the web

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  • 1 Chr 23:5Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
  • 1 Chr 15:24And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
  • Amos 6:5That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
  • Ps 81:3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
  • Josh 6:4–9And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
  • Ps 150:3–5Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
  • Ps 98:5–6Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
  • Isa 38:20The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
  • Num 10:8And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
  • 1 Chr 16:6Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
  • Ps 87:7As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
  • 2 Chr 5:12–13Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
  • Num 10:10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

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