Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
and four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised LORD with the instruments which I made, [David said], to praise therewith.
New American Standard Bible
and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and
King James Version
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
Holman Bible
4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments that I have made for worship.”
International Standard Version
with 4,000 gatekeepers, and with 4,000 offering praises to the LORD with the musical instruments that I have had crafted."
American Standard Version
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made,'said David , to praise therewith.
Amplified
and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 [musicians] were to praise the Lord with the instruments which David made for giving praise.
Bible in Basic English
Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.
Darby Translation
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
Julia Smith Translation
And four thousand gate keepers, and four thousand praising to Jehovah with instruments which I made to praise.
King James 2000
Moreover four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, for praise.
Lexham Expanded Bible
four thousand gatekeepers, [and] four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise."
Modern King James verseion
And four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which David made for praising.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Four thousand were porters and four thousand praised the LORD with such instruments as David had made to praise withal.
NET Bible
4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship."
New Heart English Bible
four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."
The Emphasized Bible
and four thousand, were doorkeepers, - and, four thousand, were offerers of praise unto Yahweh, with instruments, which said David I made for offering praise.
Webster
Moreover, four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise with them.
World English Bible
four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."
Youngs Literal Translation
and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, 'with instruments that I made for praising,' saith David.
Themes
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Porters
Chosen Instruments » Trumpets » Full orchestra
David » King of israel » David as musician
Invention » Of musical instruments » By david
Levites » Enrollment of, at mount sinai
Levites » Functions of » Had charge of the temple
the Levites » Services of » Keeping the gates of the temple
the Levites » Services of » Conducting the sacred music
the Levites » David » Divided them into four classes
Music » Trumpets » Full orchestra
Music » Appointed to be used in the temple
Music » Instruments of » Invented by david
Interlinear
'arba`
'eleph
אלף
'eleph
thousand, eleven hundred , variant, twelve hundred
Usage: 504
Halal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 23:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
David Organizes The Levites
4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of LORD. And six thousand were officers and judges, 5 and four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised LORD with the instruments which I made, [David said], to praise therewith. 6 And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:25-26
And he set the Levites in the house of LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the commandment was of LORD by his prophets.
Amos 6:5
who sing idle songs to the sound of the viol, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David,
1 Kings 10:12
And the king made pillars of the almug trees for the house of LORD, and for the king's house, also harps and psalteries for the singers. There have come no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.
1 Chronicles 6:31-48
And these are those whom David set over the service of song in the house of LORD, after the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles 9:17-27
And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
1 Chronicles 9:33
And these are the singers, heads of fathers of the Levites, [who dwelt] in the chambers [and were] free [from other service], for they were employed in their work day and night.
1 Chronicles 15:16-24
And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 16:38
and Obed-edom with their sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [were] to be porters,
1 Chronicles 16:41-42
And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to LORD because his loving kindness [is] forever.
1 Chronicles 25:1-7
Moreover David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain 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 those who did t
1 Chronicles 26:1-12
For the divisions of the porters: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
2 Chronicles 8:14
And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required, al
2 Chronicles 20:19-21
And the Levites, of the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice.
2 Chronicles 35:15
And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer. And the porters were at every gate. They did not need to depart from their service, fo
Ezra 7:7
And some of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Nehemiah 7:73
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month came, the sons of Israel were in their cities.
Psalm 87:7
Those who sing as well as those who dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.