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

And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.

David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.

4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise."

David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Arrayed

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

and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.

it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"--for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Cymbals

to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

An hundred

The LORD spoke 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 bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."

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

and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines: