KJV King James Version
Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].
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1 Chronicles 23:5
Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
WEB World English Bible
four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.”
ASV American Standard Version
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, ‘with instruments that I made for praising,’ saith David.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 23
2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
4 Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:
5 Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].
6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely], Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 Of the Gershonites [were], Laadan, and Shimei.
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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וְאַרְבַּ֥עַתH702 · ar.bafourאֲלָפִ֖יםH505 · e.lephthousandשֹׁעֲרִ֑יםH7778 · sho.ergatekeeperוְאַרְבַּ֤עַתH702 · ar.bafourאֲלָפִים֙H505 · e.lephthousandמְהַֽלְלִ֣יםH1984 · ha.lalto shineלַיהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבַּכֵּלִ֕יםH3627 · ke.liarticle/utensilאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichעָשִׂ֖יתִיH6213 · a.sahto make: doלְהַלֵּֽל׃H1984 · ha.lalto shine
Cross-references
Psalm 87:7As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.2 Chronicles 8:14And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.2 Chronicles 29:25-26And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.Amos 6:5That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;1 Chronicles 16:38And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [to be] porters:2 Chronicles 20:19-21And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.1 Chronicles 9:17-27And the porters [were], Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum [was] the chief;2 Chronicles 35:15And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.1 Chronicles 6:31-48And these [are they] whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.Ezra 7:7And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.1 Chronicles 15:16-24And 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 26:1-12Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.1 Kings 10:12And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.1 Chronicles 9:33And these [are] the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, [who remaining] in the chambers [were] free: for they were employed in [that] work day and night.Nehemiah 7:73So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities.1 Chronicles 16:41-42And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever;1 Chronicles 25:1-7Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
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