1 Chronicles 6:31 BSB

1 Chronicles 6:31

These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah, after that the ark had rest.

KJV

And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after that the ark had rest.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The genealogies of David’s three chief singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan or Jeduthun. 1Ch 6:32 They waited on their office - On the establishment and continuance of the choral service in the temple, see 2Ch 5:12, 2Ch 29:27-30; 2Ch 35:15. 1Ch 6:33 Heman - In general Asaph takes precedence of Heman and Jeduthun, but here Heman is placed first, because his family, that of the Kohathites, had the highest priestly rank, being the family which furnished the high priests (see 1Ch 6:2-15).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

David was raised up on high to be the sweet psalmist of Israel ( 2 Sam. xxiii. 1 ), not only to pen psalms, but to appoint the singing of them in the house of the Lord (not so much because he was musical as because he was devout), and this he did after that the ark had rest.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֵ֗לֶּה	ve.'E.leh	and these	H428 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	[are those] whom	H834 →
הֶעֱמִ֥יד	he.'e.Mid	he appointed	H5975 →
דָּוִ֛יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
יְדֵי־	ye.dei-	[the] hands of	H3027 →
שִׁ֖יר	shir	song	H7892 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
מִמְּנ֖וֹחַ	mi.me.No.ach	from [the] rest of	H4494 →
הָאָרֽוֹן׃	ha.'a.Ron	the ark	H727 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 132:8
Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 6:41–42
  Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice…
- Psalms 78:61
  He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
- Psalms 68:1
  God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- Numbers 10:35–36
  Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
Through
2 Samuel 6:17
So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 1:4
  Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 15:1
  David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
- Psalms 132:8
  Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
Through
1 Chronicles 15:25
So David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 6:12–23
  Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark…

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PersonUnited MonarchyDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.

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