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1 Chronicles 15:24

in 1 Chronicles 15

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

KJV

And 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 Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And 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,.... With the silver trumpets; one use of which was to blow with when the camps and ark of the Lord moved, Num 10:5. and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark; they went behind it, as the others before it, for the same purpose, as it was bringing up.

This site's exposition

And Berechiah and Elkanah

on 1 Chronicles 15:23-24

Two pairs of doorkeepers guard the ark on its return: Berechiah and Elkanah here, and Obed-edom and Jehiah added in the next verse, alongside seven priests who sound trumpets before the ark. This Obed-edom is the same man in whose house the ark rested three months and whose household the LORD blessed for it, and here he moves from host to escort. The trumpets belong specifically to the priests, the instrument Numbers 10 assigns them for moving the camp and the ark, kept distinct from the Levites' harps and cymbals appointed earlier in the chapter.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the L ORD , that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint . . . the singers with instruments--These eminent Levites were instructed to train the musicians and singers who were under them, for the solemn procession. The performers were ranged in three choirs or bands, and the names of the principal leaders are given (1Ch 15:17, 18, 21), with the instruments respectively used by each.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּשְׁבַנְיָ֡הוּand Shebaniah

    ushevanyahuH7645

  • וְיֽוֹשָׁפָ֡טand Joshaphat

    veyoshafatH3146

  • וּנְתַנְאֵ֡לand Nethanel

    unetanelH541714 times

  • וַעֲמָשַׂ֡יand Amasai

    vaamasaiH60225 times

  • וּ֠זְכַרְיָהוּand Zechariah

    uzekharyahuH214843 times

  • וּבְנָיָ֤הוּand Benaiah

    uvenayahuH114142 times

  • וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֙זֶר֙and Eliezer

    veeliezerH46114 times

  • הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548750 times

  • מַחְצְרִים֙[were] blowing a trumpet

    machatzotzerimH2690

  • בַּחֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹתon trumpets

    bachatzotzerotH268929 times

  • לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • אֲר֣וֹן[the] ark of

    ʾaronH727202 times

  • הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים<the> God

    haelohimH4302601 times

  • וְעֹבֵ֤דand Obed-

    veovedH565440 times

  • אֱדֹם֙Edom

    ʾedomH565440 times

  • וִֽיחִיָּ֔הand Jehiah

    vichiyahH3174

  • שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים[were] gatekeepers

    shoarimH777837 times

  • לָאָרֽוֹן׃for the ark

    laaronH727202 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 15:28

    So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 13:8

      David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

    • 1 Chronicles 15:16

      David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

    • Psalms 47:1–5

      Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

    • Ezra 3:10–11

      When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise…

    • Psalms 98:4–6

      Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!

  • Through

    Numbers 10:8

    The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 6:4–16

      Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.

    • Numbers 31:6

      And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 16:6

    and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

    it leads to

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.