Devine Scripture

1 Chronicles 23:5

1 Chronicles chapter 23 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Context

v.4Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges;

v.5This passage

v.6And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 87:7

    They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:17

    And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),

  • 1 Chronicles 6:31

    And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah, after that the ark had rest.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:16

    And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

  • 1 Chronicles 25:1

    Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain 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 them that did the work according to their service was:

  • 2 Chronicles 35:15

    And 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 were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.