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: Ver. 1. _The captains of the host._] Of the holy... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. Ver. 2. _According to the order of the king._] Heb., By the hand of the king; who as he penned most of the Psalms, so he appointed... [ Continue Reading ]
Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD. Ver. 3. _Six._] But then you must take in Shimei, 1Ch 25:17 to make up the number. _a_ a... [ Continue Reading ]
All these [were] the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. Ver. 5. The king's seer.] And, as some think, a psalmographer. _ To lift up the horn._] Whereas Asaph and Jeduthun's task was to sing such psalms ch... [ Continue Reading ]
All these [were] under the hands of their father for song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman. Ver. 6. _To Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman._] These three were over all the musici... [ Continue Reading ]
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, [even] all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight. Ver. 7. _Were two hundred fourscore and eight._] That served in the temple; the rest of the four thousand 1Ch 23:5 were employed, some think,... [ Continue Reading ]
And they cast lots, ward against [ward], as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. Ver. 8. _As well the small as the great._] Heb., _Sicut parvus sicut magnus; doctor cum discipulo:_ there was no privilege of precedency.... [ Continue Reading ]