1 Chronicles 25 - Introduction
_THE NUMBER AND OFFICES OF THE SINGERS: THEIR DIVISION BY LOT INTO FOUR-AND-TWENTY ORDERS._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE NUMBER AND OFFICES OF THE SINGERS: THEIR DIVISION BY LOT INTO FOUR-AND-TWENTY ORDERS._... [ Continue Reading ]
SHOULD PROPHESY— 1:e. Sing prophesies or sacred hymns, composed by the prophets, in the temple of God. See Numbers 11:25. _The captains of the host,_ at the beginning of this verse, is rendered very properly by Houbigant, _the chiefs,_ or _heads of the orders in the ministry;_ those priests, whom Da... [ Continue Reading ]
TO LIFT UP THE HORN— _To celebrate the praises;_ Houbigant. For there is no example in Scripture, says he, of such an expression as _lifting up the horn,_ for any thing in music. Some, however, think that it means to blow aloud with trumpets made of horns.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS TWO HUNDRED FOURSCORE AND EIGHT— That is, after the classes were appointed from the sons of Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman, as well as from those which each one introduced into his class: for the sons of those three, when David appointed the classes of the singers, were no more than twenty-four.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY CAST LOTS WARD AGAINST WARD— _They cast lots, according to each of their classes._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELEVENTH TO AZAREEL— His name is written _Uzziel_ in the fourth verse. Probably he was sometimes called by one of those names, and sometimes by the other. REFLECTIONS.—The courses of singers are here appointed to accompany the priests and Levites in their service. Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, or... [ Continue Reading ]