1 Chronicles 23:5

New English Translation

4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship.”

Cross References

1 Kings 10:12

With the timber the king made supports for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day.)

2 Kings 7:10

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.”

1 Chronicles 16:38

including Obed-Edom and sixty-eight colleagues. Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were gatekeepers.

1 Chronicles 16:4

He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the Lord, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the Lord God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 23:30

They also stood in a designated place every morning and offered thanks and praise to the Lord. They also did this in the evening

1 Chronicles 9:33

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

2 Chronicles 20:28

They entered Jerusalem to the sound of stringed instruments and trumpets and proceeded to the temple of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:13

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

2 Chronicles 35:15

The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

2 Chronicles 8:14

As his father David had decreed, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. This was what David the man of God had ordered.

Ezra 7:7

In the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, Ezra brought up to Jerusalem some of the Israelites and some of the priests, the Levites, the attendants, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

Nehemiah 7:73

The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all the rest of Israel lived in their cities.

Psalm 87:7

As for the singers, as well as the pipers – all of them sing within your walls.

Isaiah 64:10

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

Amos 6:5

They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.