And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
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This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a…
Adam Clarke
Musical instruments of God - Ad canendum Deo, "to sing to God." - Vulgate. Των ωδων του Θεου, "of the sons of God." - Septuagint. The Syriac is remarkable: "These were upright men who did not sing…
The worship of God is not only to be the work of a solemn day now and then, brought in to grace a triumph; but it ought to be the work of every day. David therefore settles it here for a constancy,…
Cambridge Bible
and with themetc.] The words with themare probably repeated in error from 1Ch 16:41. Render, And Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals. For trumpetscp. 1Ch 15:24 (note).
make a sound, and with…
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