2 Chronicles 29:26 BSB

2 Chronicles 29:26

The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

KJV

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,.... Which were invented, directed, and ordered to be used by him, and are the same as in the preceding verse: and the priests with the trumpets; which were made by the direction of Moses, according to the order of God, Num 10:2.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּֽעַמְד֤וּ	vai.ya.'am.Du	and they stood	H5975 →
הַלְוִיִּם֙	hal.vi.Yim	the Levites	H3881 →
בִּכְלֵ֣י	bikh.Lei	with [the] instruments of	H3627 →
דָוִ֔יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים	ve.ha.ko.ha.Nim	and the priests	H3548 →
בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃ ס	ba.cha.tzo.tze.Rot	with trumpets	H2689 →

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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
Amos 6:5
You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
leads to
- Isaiah 5:12
  At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- Amos 5:23
  Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Through
1 Chronicles 15:24
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.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 16:6
  and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
Through
Numbers 10:10
And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you…
leads to
- Psalms 81:3
  Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
- Numbers 10:9
  When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your…
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16
  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…
- Ezra 3:10
  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…
- 1 Corinthians 11:24–26