Cross References

- Advertisements -




2 Chronicles 7:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The priests and the Levites were standing at their stations. The Levites had the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to give thanks to the Lord  #– #‘for his faithful love endures for ever’ #– #when he offered praise with them.  Opposite the Levites, the priests were blowing trumpets, and all the people were standing.

See the chapter Copy

26 Cross References  

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.


All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the Lord came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshipped and praised the Lord: For he is good, for his faithful love endures for ever.


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


Therefore my people will know my name; therefore they will know on that day that I am he who says, “Here I am.” ’


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.


Give thanks to the  Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures for ever.


The priests, Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, were to blow trumpets  before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be gatekeepers for the ark.


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


Have seven priests to carry seven trumpets made of ram’s horns in front of the ark. But on the seventh day, march round the city seven times, while the priests blow the rams’ horns.


King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple.


The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the Lord with one voice. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments,  in praise to the Lord: For he is good; his faithful love endures for ever. The temple, the Lord’s temple, was filled with a cloud.


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.


Then Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. When the burnt offerings began, the song of the Lord and the trumpets began, accompanied by the instruments of King David of Israel.


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.





Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements