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2 Chronicles 5:12

2 Chronicles 5:12
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

A hundred and twenty priests - Cymbals, psalteries, and harps, of any kind, in union with a hundred and twenty trumpets or horns, could not produce much harmony; as to melody, that must have been…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 5:11-14

Solomon, and the elders of Israel, had done what they could to grace the solemnity of the introduction of the ark; but God, by testifying his acceptance of what they did, put the greatest honour upon…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons R.V. even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons. Cp. 1Ch 25:1-7.

being arrayed in white linen R.V. arrayed in fine linen.

psalteries … harps See 1Ch…