1 Chronicles 25 - Introduction
_A.M. 2989. B.C. 1015._ The persons that were to be employed in singing, 1 Chronicles 25:1. The order in which they were to attend, determined by lot, 1 Chronicles 25:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2989. B.C. 1015._ The persons that were to be employed in singing, 1 Chronicles 25:1. The order in which they were to attend, determined by lot, 1 Chronicles 25:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And captains_ All the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites, whom David gathered together (1Ch 23:2) for this very end, that, with their approbation and consent, all these things might be established, who are here fitly called _the captains of the host;_ for the princes were, under Da... [ Continue Reading ]
_Under the hands of Asaph_ Under his oversight and direction. _According to the order of the king_ In such manner and order as David appointed. _The sons of Jeduthun, six_ Jeduthun, their father, being included in that number; or Shimei, mentioned 1 Chronicles 25:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The king's seer_ Or prophet. Either he was a prophet as well as a singer; or he is thus called because he prophesied, or praised God, in the sense designed 1 Chronicles 25:1. And he is called the _king's_ seer, because the king took special delight in him; or because he frequently attended the king... [ Continue Reading ]
_All that were cunning_ Who were so skilful that they were able to teach others; and, together with their scholars, made up the four thousand mentioned 1 Chronicles 23:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ward against ward_ A course of Levites answerable to one of the priests, upon whom the Levites were to wait in their holy ministrations, 1 Chronicles 23:28. _As well the teacher as the scholar_ Without any respect to their different ages or abilities.... [ Continue Reading ]
_To Joseph_ For the family of Asaph, of which Joseph was. Here that clause, _he, his sons, and his brethren were twelve_, is to be understood as it is expressed in all the following verses, otherwise they do not make up that number of two hundred and eighty-eight, mentioned 1 Chronicles 25:7.... [ Continue Reading ]