1 Chronicles 15:16

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1 Chronicles 15:16

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Summary

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

And david

2 Chronicles 30:12

Ezra 7:24

Isaiah 49:23

Chief

Titus 1:5

The singers

Lifting up

General references

1 Chronicles 15:19

Psalm 98:5

Bible References

And david

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

We also inform you that it is not allowed to impose tax, tribute or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim or servants of this house of God.

“Kings will be your guardians,
And their princesses your nurses.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth
And lick the dust of your feet;
And you will know that I am the Lord;
Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

Chief

and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.

When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.

The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,

The singers

Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen with all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the singing with the singers. David also wore an ephod of linen.

Now these are those whom David appointed over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark rested there.

David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

And with them were Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun for the gate.

and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 were praising the Lord with the instruments which David made for giving praise.

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps and cymbals; and the number of those who performed their service was:

While the whole assembly worshiped, the singers also sang and the trumpets sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

and his kinsmen, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.

Then those who sing as well as those who

play the flutes shall say,

“All my springs of joy are in you.”

Let them praise His name with dancing;
Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre.

Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.

Lifting up

in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the Lord saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

Now when the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord

according to the directions of King David of Israel.

and on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy, even the women and children rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.

Sing for joy to God our strength;

Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.

A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath day.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord
And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

A Psalm for Thanksgiving.

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,
“Give thanks to the Lord of hosts,
For the Lord is good,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting”;
and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first,’ says the Lord.

General references

So the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;

Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
With the lyre and the

sound of melody.