KJV King James Version
And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skilful.
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1 Chronicles 15:22
And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skilful.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Chenaniah the head Levite was the director of the music because he was highly skilled.
WEB World English Bible
Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
ASV American Standard Version
And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Chenaniah, head of the Levites, is over the burden; he instructeth about the burden, for he is intelligent.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 15
19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with cymbals of brass;
20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skilful.
23 And Berechiah and Elkanah [were] doorkeepers for the ark.
24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah [were] doorkeepers for the ark.
25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
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1 Chronicles 15:16And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.1 Chronicles 15:27And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen.1 Chronicles 25:7-8So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, [even] all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
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