2 Chronicles 5:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

The levites

Arrayed

1 Chronicles 15:27

Revelation 15:6

Revelation 19:8

Cymbals

Psalm 92:3

Psalm 149:3

Psalm 150:3

An hundred

Psalm 68:25

Bible References

The levites

He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with harps and with lyres, according to the command of David and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, even to celebrate and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:

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:

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.

Arrayed

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.

and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes.

It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Cymbals

With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp,

With resounding music upon the lyre.

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.

An hundred

The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,

So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.”

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah also were gatekeepers for the ark.

and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

The singers went on, the musicians after them,

In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.