1 Chronicles 23:5

New King James Version

four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with musical instruments, “which I made,” said David, “for giving praise.”

Cross References

Amos 6:5

Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments, And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;

Psalm 87:7

Both the singers and the players on instruments say, “All my springs are in you.”

2 Chronicles 8:14

And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.

Nehemiah 7:73

So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the Nethinim, and all Israel dwelt in their cities. When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

Ezra 7:7

Some of the children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

2 Chronicles 35:15

And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their places, according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. Also the gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not have to leave their position, because their brethren the Levites prepared portions for them.

1 Chronicles 16:38

and Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brethren, including Obed-Edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, to be gatekeepers;

1 Chronicles 9:33

These are the singers, heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites, who lodged in the chambers, and were free from other duties; for they were employed in that work day and night.

1 Kings 10:12

And the king made steps of the almug wood for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, also harps and stringed instruments for singers. There never again came such almug wood, nor has the like been seen to this day.

2 Kings 7:10

So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound—only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.”

1 Chronicles 16:4

And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord God of Israel:

1 Chronicles 23:30

to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at evening;

2 Chronicles 20:28

So they came to Jerusalem, with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets, to the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:13

were over the burden bearers and were overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. And some of the Levites were scribes, officers, and gatekeepers.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.