1 Chronicles 23:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And, said David, 4,000 shall be gatekeepers and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments which I made for praise.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Common English Bible

⁵ 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 praising the LORD with instruments made for offering praise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Moreover, four thousand were porters. And the same number were the singers of psalms to the Lord, with the musical instruments which he had made for the music.

1 Chronicles 23:5 Cross References

Amos 6:5

who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David improvise on instruments of music,

Psalm 87:7

Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”

2 Chronicles 8:14

According to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry alongside the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates, for so David the man of God had commanded.

Nehemiah 7:73

So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns. When the seventh month came, the Israelites being settled in their towns,

Ezra 7:7

Some of the people of Israel and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants also went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

2 Chronicles 35:15

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and the king’s seer Jeduthun. The gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to interrupt their service, for their kindred the Levites made preparations for them.

1 Chronicles 16:38

and also Obed-edom and his sixty-eight kinsfolk, while Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

1 Chronicles 9:33

Now these are the singers, the heads of ancestral houses of the Levites, living in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.

1 Kings 10:12

From the almug wood the king made supports for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers; no such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.

2 Kings 7:10

So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We went to the Aramean camp, but there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

1 Chronicles 16:4

He appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 23:30

And they shall stand every morning thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening,

2 Chronicles 20:28

They came to Jerusalem with harps and lyres and trumpets to the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:13

were over the burden bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.