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

King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord's temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king's prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully.

He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the Lord, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the Lord God of Israel.

4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship."

David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. The following men were assigned this responsibility:

When the builders established the Lord's temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by King David of Israel.

Arrayed

David was wrapped in a linen robe, as were all the Levites carrying the ark, the musicians, and Kenaniah the supervisor of transport and the musicians; David also wore a linen ephod.

and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, dressed in clean bright linen, wearing wide golden belts around their chests.

She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen" (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).

Cymbals

to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.

Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

Praise him with the blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp!

An hundred

The Lord spoke to Moses:

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, "Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark of the Lord."

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God; Obed-Edom and Jehiel were also guardians of the ark.

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

Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.