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1 Chronicles 25:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

David and the officers of the army also set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman,  and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy  accompanied by lyres, harps, and cymbals.  This is the list of the men who performed their service:

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These are the men who served with their sons. From the Kohathites: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Samuel,


Now, bring me a musician.’ While the musician played,  the Lord’s hand  came on Elisha.


‘After that you will come to Gibeah of God  where there are Philistine garrisons.  When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets  coming down from the high place prophesying.  They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.


Heman’s relative was Asaph, who stood at his right hand: Asaph son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,


At the dedication of the wall  of Jerusalem, they sent for the Levites wherever they lived and brought them to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.


The men were doing the work with integrity. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites as supervisors. The Levites were all skilled with musical instruments.


As she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar  at the entrance. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets  while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praise. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, ‘Treason! Treason! ’


From Jeduthun:  Jeduthun’s sons: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei,  Hashabiah, and Mattithiah #– #six #– #under the authority of their father Jeduthun, prophesying to the accompaniment of lyres, giving thanks and praise to the Lord.


The heads of the Levites #– #Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their relatives opposite them #– #gave praise and thanks, division by division, as David the man of God had prescribed.


Hezekiah re-established the divisions  of the priests and Levites for the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for praise in the gates of the camp of the Lord,  each division corresponding to his service among the priests and Levites.


The priest Jehoiada gave to the commanders of hundreds King David’s spears, shields, and quivers  that were in God’s temple.


Then, in the seventh year,  Jehoiada summoned his courage and took the commanders of hundreds into a covenant with him: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.


Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites.


and Zadok,  a young valiant warrior, with 22 commanders from his ancestral family.


On the left, their relatives were Merari’s sons: Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,


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.


From Asaph’s sons: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, sons of Asaph, under Asaph’s authority, who prophesied under the authority of the king.


the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres  were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets.  The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons  and relatives.


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.


Then Jehoiada put the oversight of the Lord’s temple into the hands of the Levitical priests,  whom David had appointed  over the Lord’s temple, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord as it is written in the law of Moses,  with rejoicing and song ordained by  David.


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.


Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:  , one  beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south  gate, facing north.


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.


Levi’s   sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.


David and all Israel were dancing with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.


So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, the sound of the ram’s horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres.


The first lot for Asaph fell to Joseph, his sons, and his relatives – 12 to Gedaliah the second: him, his relatives, and his sons – 12


Shimri and Jeuel from the Elizaphanites; Zechariah and Mattaniah from the Asaphites;


Jehiel  and Shimei from the Hemanites; Shemaiah and Uzziel from the Jeduthunites.


The singers included Asaph’s   descendants 128


They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the book of Moses.


Mattaniah son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, the one  who began the thanksgiving in prayer;  Bakbukiah, second among his relatives; and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.





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