1 Chronicles 23:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

four thousand are to be gatekeepers, and four thousand are to praise the Lord with the instruments that I have made for worship.’

Cross References

Amos 6:5

They improvise songs  to the sound of the harp and invent  their own musical instruments like David.

2 Chronicles 8:14

According to the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service,  of the Levites over their responsibilities to offer praise and to minister before the priests following the daily requirement,  and of the gatekeepers by their divisions with respect to each temple gate,  for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

Nehemiah 7:73

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

Ezra 7:7

Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants  accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

2 Chronicles 35:15

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer.  Also, the gatekeepers were at each temple gate.  None of them left their tasks because their Levite brothers had made preparations for them.

1 Chronicles 16:38

He assigned Obed-edom  and his  sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah  were to be gatekeepers.

1 Chronicles 9:33

The singers,  the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.

1 Kings 10:12

The king made the almug wood into steps for the Lord’s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before did such almug wood arrive, and the like has not been seen again.

2 Kings 7:10

The diseased men came and called to the city’s gatekeepers and told them, ‘We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there #– #no human sounds. There was nothing but tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.’

1 Chronicles 16:4

David appointed some of the Levites to be ministers before the ark of the Lord, to celebrate the Lord God of Israel, and to give thanks and praise to him.

1 Chronicles 23:30

They are also to stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the Lord, and likewise in the evening.

2 Chronicles 20:28

So they came into Jerusalem to the Lord’s temple with harps, lyres, and trumpets.

2 Chronicles 34:13

They were also over the porters and were supervising all those doing the work task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.

Isaiah 64:10

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