1 Chronicles 25:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

The captains

Prophesy

General references

1 Chronicles 15:19

Psalm 98:5

Bible References

The captains

and Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and the Levites,

They divided them, therefore, by lot, one with another for of the sons of Eleazar and of the sons of Ithamar there were princes of the sanctuary and princes of God.

And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah, the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael, the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah, the son of Obed, and Maaseiah, the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat, the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

Prophesy

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

After that thou shalt come to the hill of God where the garrison of the Philistines is, and it shall come to pass when thou art come there to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery and a tambourine and a pipe and a harp before them; and they shall prophesy.

But now bring me a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the LORD came upon him;

But if all prophesy, and there come in one that does not believe or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all;

General references

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, raised their voices with cymbals of brass;

Sing praises unto the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of a song.