2 Chronicles 8:14

Solomon organizes the priests, Levites, and gatekeepers for their duties as David had appointed. It establishes ordered, ongoing temple ministry.

Cross-references · 21

• 1 Chr 9:17The porters: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
• Neh 12:24The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
• Neh 12:36and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.
• Ezra 6:18They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
• 1 Chr 6:31–48These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.
• 2 Chr 5:11When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
• Acts 13:22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
• 1 Chr 28:19“All this”, said David, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
• 2 Sam 23:2“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
• 1 Kgs 13:1Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Beth El; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
• 1 Chr 23:1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
• 1 Chr 16:42and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
• 2 Chr 31:2Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.
• 2 Chr 23:4This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds.
• Acts 13:36For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
• Deut 33:1This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
• 2 Chr 35:10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
• Luke 1:8Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division,
• 1 Chr 15:16–22David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
• Luke 1:5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
• 1 Chr 16:4–6He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

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