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 in power, and of his fathers' house were twenty-two captains.

And he gathered all the rulers of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

So they divided them by lot, one sort with another. For the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

And in the seventh year Jehoiada made himself strong. And he took the commanders 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, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, and Shimei, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre to give thanks and to praise Jehovah.

After that you shall come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is. And it will happen to you when you come there to the city, even you shall meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a harp and a tambourine and a flute and a lyre before them. And they shall prophesy.

And now bring me a minstrel. And it happened when the minstrel played, the hand of Jehovah came on him.

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.

General references

And the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were chosen to sound with cymbals of bronze;

Sing to Jehovah with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.