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2 Chronicles 29:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres  according to the command of David,  Gad the king’s seer,  and the prophet Nathan.  For the command was from the Lord through his prophets.

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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.


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


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.


Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God.  Jeduthun’s sons were at the city gate.


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.


When David got up in the morning, the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad,  David’s seer:


Also, the power of God was at work in Judah to unite them  to carry out the command of the king and his officials by the word of the Lord.


As for the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, note that they are written in the Events of the Seer Samuel,  the Events of the Prophet Nathan,  and the Events of the Seer Gad,


David concluded, ‘By the Lord’s hand on me, he enabled me to understand everything in writing, all the details of the plan.’


The plans contained everything he had in mind  , for the courts of the Lord’s house, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries  of God’s house, and the treasuries for what is dedicated.


Then  the Lord instructed Gad,  David’s seer,


Then the prophet Gad  said to David, ‘Don’t stay in the stronghold. Leave and return to the land of Judah.’ So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.


The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy,  and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day after day with loud instruments.


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.





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