also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);
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also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets —
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- 1 Chronicles 15:24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33 These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
- 1 Chronicles 6:39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 23:5 four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.
- Psalms 68:25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,
- Psalms 150:3-5 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute! Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!
- Numbers 10:1-5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
- Joshua 6:6-20 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.” They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.” It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them. The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went. Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.” So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp. Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark. The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went. The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days. On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times. At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city! The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it. But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.” So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
- 1 Chronicles 13:8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16-22 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy. So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers. So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud; and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth; and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead. Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
- 1 Chronicles 15:27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.
- 1 Chronicles 16:4-6 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel: Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
- 1 Chronicles 16:41-42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever; and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
- 1 Chronicles 23:30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
- 1 Chronicles 25:1-7 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was: of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king. Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp. Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth. All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king. The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
- Ezra 3:10-11 When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel. They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
- Psalms 50:1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
- Psalms 62:1 My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
- Psalms 88:1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
- Psalms 92:3 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
- Psalms 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
- Revelation 15:6 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
- Revelation 19:8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 5:12 Also the Levites [which were] the singers,…
2Ch 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:)
Ver. 12. Being arrayed in white linen.] Which might remind them of that innoceney and integrity required of them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. A hundred and twenty priests] Cymbals, psalteries,…
Verse 12. 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 impossible, as the noise was too great.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Linen, or "robes of silk." Protestants, "white linen." (Haydock)
Linen, or "robes of silk." Protestants, "white linen." (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Levites which were the singers--On great and solemn…
the Levites which were the singers--On great and solemn occasions, such as this, a full choir was required, and their station was taken with scrupulous regard to their official parts: the family of Heman occupied the central place, the family of Asaph stood on his right, and that of Jeduthun on his left; the place allotted to the vocal department was a space between the court of Israel and the altar in the east end of the priests' court.
with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets--The trumpet was always used by the priests, and in the divine service it was specially employed in calling the people together during the holy solemnities, and in drawing attention to new and successive parts of the ritual. The number of trumpets used in the divine service could not be less than two (Num 10:2), and their greatest number never exceeded the precedent set at the dedication of the temple. The station where the priests were sounding with trumpets was apart from that of the other musicians; for while the Levite singers occupied an orchestra east of the altar, the priests stood at the marble table on the southwest of the altar. There both of them stood with their faces to the altar. The manner of blowing the trumpets was, first, by a long plain blast, then by one with breakings and quaverings, and then by a long plain blast again [BROWN, Jewish Antiquities].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their…
12. 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.
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psalteries … harps] See 1Ch_13:8, notes.
at the east end of the altar] Looking westward, facing the Holy of Holies. To face the East was to turn the back upon the sanctuary; Eze_8:16.
trumpets] See 1Ch_15:24, note.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) All of them of Asaph . . .…
(12) All of them of Asaph . . . brethren.—Heb., to all of them, to Asaph, to Heman, &c., &c., and to their sons, and to their brethren. This use of the particle le (to, for) is characteristic of the chronicler, whose style in these verses stands in marked contrast with the former part of the chapter. As to the Levitical guilds of musicians, comp. 1Ch_25:1-7; 1Ch_15:16, seq.
Arrayed in white linen.—1Ch_15:27.
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Having cymbals and psalteries and harps.—With cymbals and nebels and kinnors (harps and lutes, or guitars). (See 1Ch_15:28.)
Stood at the east end of the altar.—Were standing east of the altar.
And with them . . . trumpets.—And with them priests, to a hundred and twenty, were trumpeting with trumpets. (See 1Ch_15:24.)
An hundred and twenty.—Thus five to each of the twenty-four classes of the priests.
The mark of parenthesis should be cancelled.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This verse, marked off in the Authorized Version in…
This verse, marked off in the Authorized Version in brackets, is most graphic. First all the priests, who were not hors de combat, i.e. all the "courses" of them together, thronged the arena; and now they are joined by all the Levites who were singers, of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, (1Ch_25:1-31) i.e. twenty-four choirs in one, with their sons and their brethren; and this collected choir is arrayed in white linen; and they have three kinds of musical instruments cymbals (Psalm el. 5) and psalteries (or lutes) and harps; 1Ch_16:5 1Ch_25:1) and they take up their station at the east end of the altar, and still further a strong support flanks these of a hundred and twenty priests sounding with Trumpets. (1Ch_16:6) So ends our inopportune Authorized Version parenthesis. But to what all this? It is a scene in a nation"s history, in the universal Church"s history; it is witnessed from heaven, and by Heaven"s will recorded in the book on earth, which will endure through all generations, as long as the sun and moon endure, as ushering in the moment when, as described in the next verse, to the unanimous fervent adoration and praise of man, God bent a willing, gracious ear, and to earth the glory of heaven drew nigh. Cymbals. The word used here ( denoting strictly "pair of cymbals," occurs eleven times in Chronicles, once in Ezra, and once in Nehemiah. Another form of essentially the same word occurs once in 2Sa_6:5 and twice in Psa_150:5. This last passage notes two kinds of cymbals the "loud" and the "high-sounding." It was the former of these that Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun used, and their use was probably to regulate or beat the time (see Smith"s "Bible Dictionary," 1:375, 376; Conder"s "Handbook to the Bible," p. 167, 2nd edit.). Psalteries (lbn). This word occurs twenty-eight times in the Old Testament, but of these it is translated (Authorized Version) four times as "viols" (Isa_5:12 Isa_14:11; Amo_5:23 Amo_6:5) it is also once rendered "vessels of flagons", (Isa_22:24) but the margin offers the version "instruments of viols." While the cymbal was, of course, an instrument of percussion, the psaltery was one of strings its use was as an accompaniment to the voice. The first mention of it is very interesting. (1Sa_10:5) Compare also David"s and Solomon"s psaltery in 2Sa_6:5; 2Ch_9:11. Harps (rwNKi) This word occurs forty-two times, beginning with Oj Gen_4:21. Trumpets (hrx) This word (including eleven of the personal forms of it, as e.g. the person blowing the trumpet) occurs just forty times, beginning with Num_10:2. It was the straight tuba, and was not, therefore, the same with the ram"s-horn shaped buccina (rpvo) generally rendered in the Authorized Version "cornet," but sometimes "trumpet;" the specialty of the cornet being to blow a sound for a signal or summons of some sort, whether secular as in war, or sacred as for some festival. The trumpets of our verse evidently (Num_10:8) were in a particular sense the instrument of the priests.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Also the the Levites, which were the singers.
2Ch_5:12-13
Also the the Levites, which were the singers.
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The temple choir
I. Music and revelation from God. There is no fuller revelation of God in Nature than is found in these laws of sound, by which He comes into the very heart of man, even to its inmost recesses of love and adoration; and it requires only a sensitive, child-like heart to interpret this speechless music locked within Nature as the voice of God pleading to be let out into music, and praise through the heart of man, for so only can His works praise Him.
II. Music as a science to cultivate.
III. Music consecrated to its highest use in the worship of God. (J. Wolfendale.)
Music in the churches
I propose to speak about sacred music.
I. Its importance. This is apparent--
1. From the fact that God commanded it. Through Paul He tells us to admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and through David He cries out, Sing ye to God, all ye kingdoms of the earth. I think there are more commands in the Bible to sing than there are to pray.
2. From the impressiveness of the exercise. You know something of what secular music has achieved. One inspiriting national air is worth thirty thousand men as a standing army. In the earlier part of the late war the Government proposed to economise in bands of music, and many of them were sent home; but the generals in the army sent word to Washington: You are making a great mistake. We are falling back and falling back. We have not enough music. Then the Government changed its mind: more bands of music were sent to the field, and the day of shameful defeat terminated. Many of you are illustrations of what sacred song can do. Through it you were brought into the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
3. From its power to soothe perturbation.
4. From its power to arouse to action.
II. Some of the obstacles in the way of its advancement.
1. It has been impressed into the service of superstition.
2. An inordinate fear of criticism.
3. There has been so much angry discussion on the subject.
4. The erroneous notion that this part of the service could be conducted by delegation. (T. De Witt Talmage.)
United praise as a means of grace
I. That the glory of the Lord began to appear when the assembly were employed in praise and thanksgiving. Praise is the most acceptable service we can be engaged in: Whoso offereth praise giorifieth Me. Prayer is an expression of our indigence and weakness. Thanksgiving expresseth our relish of the sweetness of benefits received; but praise rises above all selfish regards, and directly terminates on the greatness and amiableness of God Himself. The habitations of the blessed continually resound with the high praises of God. Did we praise God more, He would give us greater cause to praise Him. It is suggestive that the Lords Prayer both begins and ends with adoration.
II. The subject of praise, which God honoured with this token of His acceptance, was His own goodness and everlasting mercy. God is best pleased with our praises when we adore and celebrate those perfections of His nature which dispose Him to pity the miserable, and have the kindest aspect towards the children of men.
III. The seriousness and fervour of this devout assembly. They devoted their whole strength and activity, as if they were ambitious to spend themselves in this heavenly employment. The devotion of the soul is the soul of devotion.
IV. The harmony and unanimity of these ancient worshippers. They were all as one, and made one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord (Act_2:1-2; Psa_133:1-3.; Mat_5:23-24). (R. Walker.)
On psalmody
I. Why or for what end music is used in religious worship. By the constitution of our nature music, by a mysterious and potent agency, awakens the heart, concentrates the thoughts, and elevates the soul, and the end of music in religious worship is to assist our devotions, by an application to our affections of that which has upon them a powerful action to excite and direct them; by engaging us in an exercise in which sympathy has large scope, and every one acts upon the rest, to enable us to animate each other; to pour forth our praises and adorations in a way that is significant and edifying, delightsome and impressive. Hence--
1. The absurdity of making music in our religious services a mere matter of entertainment.
2. All kinds of music which have no tendency to aid and gratify devotion ought to be banished from the house of God.
II. Some of the examples and authorities for making music a handmaid to religion (Job_38:7; Gen_4:21; Exo_15:20; Psa_47:6; Psa_98:7; Eph_5:19; Mat_26:30).
III. After what manner the first Christians performed this service. The nearer we come to the model of the primitive Church in this, the nearer we shall approach to perfection. The psalmody of the first Christians was plain, simple, and solemn. Their tunes were, probably, easy and few, and the character of them such as expressed humility and love, and was calculated rather to melt than to capture the heart. Afterwards, as piety declined, it became necessary to re-excite and re-animate it by more striking music; and the whole congregation was divided into two parts, which sang responsive to each other.
IV. Some brief suggestions how we may use this part of divine service to our own benefit and the glory of god. (Bp. Dehon.)
Advantages of music in public worship
I. they lifted up their voice. Those whom nature has gifted with a voice ought to lift it up not only in making responses but also in singing the praises of their Creator and Redeemer. The choir should not be deputed by the congregation to praise God in their stead. Its office is rather to lead their united praises.
II. In acceptable worship the praise of the heart must accompany the praise of the lips: They were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. Their hearts were all at one with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music. Those who sing loudly the praises of God should let heart, lips, and life be a well-tuned instrument devoted to the service of the sanctuary. The man who sings beautiful words with an angels tongue, and leads an unholy life, pronounces his own condemnation.
III. Those who are anxious that the praise of the heart should accompany the praise of the lips will find themselves greatly aided by instruments of music: They lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music. Instrumental music unites voices which would otherwise be discordant, and removes the diffidence of those who might otherwise be silent in the service of the sanctuary. Instrumental music removes weariness from the mind, banishes wandering thoughts, and enables us to mount above the world and the things of the world, and to hold high converse with the adorable Trinity. It also conveys to us a lively image of the worship and services of the heavenly sanctuary. (Rev_14:2; Rev_14:8). We must learn to distinguish between the natural effect of music on the senses and the spiritual effect of Divine truths on the soul.
IV. The subject-matter of praise: Gods goodness in creation and redemption.
V. Gods testimony of approbation: the cloud filled the house. This was designed to impress their senses with an awful reverence of God.
VI. The time when God gave them this remarkable token of His approbation: When they lifted up their voice. Conclusion: So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud. These show that, when Christ should come, the priests should not minister in their former manner. We are now called upon to renounce every altar but the Cross, and every sacrifice but the Victim which bled on Calvary. As s spiritual priesthood, we have to present our bodies a living sacrifice. (Canon Arthur R. Pennington.)
That then the house was filled with a cloud (with 2Ch_7:1-8).--
Temple glories
The two passages of Scripture which I have read to you give you two pictures. In the first you have the cloud, in the second you have the fire; and in these two together you have the sacred mystic symbols of the presence of the Eternal God in the midst of His people.
I. The first of these passages affords me the first head of my discourse. Let us note--
1. The occupation in which the people were engaged. They were praising God--
(1) Unanimously.
(2) Heartily.
(3) Scripturally.
They sung that old psalm, His mercy endureth for ever.
2. While thus engaged the cloud filled the sacred places.
3. Then a solemn awe fell on all that were gathered that day.
4. The suppliants felt they might pray more earnestly because they prayed surely.
II. The first text has had reference to the past. The next dwells specially upon the future. After praise, joined with solemn prayer and sacrifice, the fire came down.
1. How much the preacher wants this fire! Oh! I have heard a man preach a sermon to which an angel might have listened for its faultless truthfulness, but it lacked fire; but I have known another whose ministry was faulty in many respects, but yet he spoke like a man that meant what he said, with his heart boiling over at his eyes, and men were moved and many souls were saved.
2. But we need this fire upon the hearers too. How well people listen when they come to hear something! What a noble effect is produced when once the fire comes upon a congregation! (C. H. Spurgeon.)
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