1 Chronicles 23:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Psalm 87:7

They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.

2 Chronicles 8:14

And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

Nehemiah 7:73

So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.

Ezra 7:7

And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

2 Chronicles 35:15

And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

1 Chronicles 16:38

and Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers:

1 Chronicles 9:33

And these are the singers, heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers and were free from other service: for they were employed in their work day and night.

1 Kings 10:12

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, unto this day.

2 Kings 7:10

So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.

1 Chronicles 16:4

And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD, the God of Israel:

1 Chronicles 23:30

and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;

2 Chronicles 20:28

And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:13

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

Isaiah 64:10

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.