📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 23:5
What does 1 Chronicles 23:5 mean?
"four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”"
— 1 Chronicles 23:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
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