The Levites stood with the musical instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.
- KJV And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, 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.
- 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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Quick answer
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 23:5four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
- 1 Chr 15:24Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- Amos 6:5who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
- Ps 81:3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- Josh 6:4–9Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
- Ps 150:3–5Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
- Ps 98:5–6Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
- Isa 38:20Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
- 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.
- 1 Chr 16:6with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
- Ps 87:7Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
- 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);
- Num 10:10“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
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