1 Chronicles 25
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Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

even the principal The whole company being ranged according to their families, with the proper number of divisions, the order of their courses was assigned them by lot, without respect to rank or seniority.

1 Chronicles 25:8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, …

1 Chronicles 26:13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to …

Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.

1 Chronicles 25:1-7 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …

1 Chronicles 25:8-31 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, …

the captains That is, the chief of the several orders; not military captains

1 Chronicles 12:28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house …

1 Chronicles 23:2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests …

1 Chronicles 24:5,6 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors …

2 Chronicles 23:1,9 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the …

Asaph

1 Chronicles 6:33,39,44 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of …

1 Chronicles 15:16-19 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers …

prophesy The word prophesy, here, seems to mean no more than praising God by singing inspired prophetical hymns.

1 Chronicles 25:3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, …

1 Samuel 10:5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison …

2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel …

1 Corinthians 14:24-26 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or …

harps

1 Chronicles 15:16-21 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers …

1 Chronicles 16:4,5,42 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark …

1 Chronicles 23:5-7 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the …

2 Chronicles 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the …

2 Chronicles 29:25,26 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …

2 Chronicles 31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites …

2 Chronicles 34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were …

Ezra 3:10,11 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, …

Nehemiah 12:24,27,43-46 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the …

Psalm 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with …

Psalm 92:1-3 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES …

Psalm 150:3-5 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery …

Revelation 15:2-4 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that …

Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

Asaph

1 Chronicles 25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …

1 Chronicles 6:39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the …

1 Chronicles 15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, …

1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, …

Psalm 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Psalm 74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …

Psalm 75:1 To you, O God, do we give thanks, to you do we give thanks: for that …

Psalm 76:1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

Psalm 77:1 I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.

Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple …

Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; …

Psalm 81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 82:1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.

Psalm 83:1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.

Asarelah. `Otherwise called Jesharelah ver

1 Chronicles 25:3,6 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, …

Isaiah 3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, …

according to the order of the king [heb] by the hands of the king

1 Chronicles 25:6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house …

Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:
All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

Heman

1 Chronicles 6:33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of …

1 Chronicles 15:17,19 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, …

1 Chronicles 16:41,42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, …

Psalm 88:1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

Bukkiah

1 Chronicles 25:13 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Mattaniah

1 Chronicles 25:16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Uzziel

1 Chronicles 25:18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Azareel

1 Chronicles 24:24 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.

Shebuel

1 Chronicles 25:20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 24:20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; …

Shubael
Jerimoth

1 Chronicles 25:22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 24:30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were …

Hananiah

1 Chronicles 25:23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Hanani

1 Chronicles 25:25 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Eliathah

1 Chronicles 25:27 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Giddalti

1 Chronicles 25:29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Romamti-ezer

1 Chronicles 25:31 The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his brothers, …

Joshbekashah

1 Chronicles 25:24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Mallothi

1 Chronicles 25:26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve:

Hothir

1 Chronicles 25:28,30 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve…

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

two hundred These two hundred and eighty-eight, being twenty courses of twelve each, were more skilful than the other Levites; and being placed under the twenty-four sons of the chief singers, they had the four thousand before mentioned divided among them, to officiate by courses, according to their instructions.

1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the …

Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Joseph

1 Chronicles 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, …

the second Dr. Geddes, chiefly on the authority of the Arabic, add, `who with his sons and brethren were twelve.'

The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Izri Izri, seems to be called Zeri by the aphaeresis of (), {yood}.

1 Chronicles 25:3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, …

Zeri

The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Jesharelah This variation rises from the mutation of {aleph} and {yood}; the word being written in the parallel passage {Asarelah}, and here, () Jesharelah

1 Chronicles 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, …

Asarelah

The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Azareel Probably this person was called by both names; or Uzziel may be a mistake for Azareel. In the Syriac and Arabic, the name is nearly the same in both places.

1 Chronicles 25:4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, …

Uzziel

The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.

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