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15:19 The musicians <07891> Heman <01968>, Asaph <0623>, and Ethan <0387> were to sound <08085> the bronze <05178> cymbals <04700>; 15:20 Zechariah <02148>, Aziel <05815>, Shemiramoth <08070>, Jehiel <03171>, Unni <06042>, Eliab <0446>, Maaseiah <04641>, and Benaiah <01141> were to play the harps <05035> according to the alamoth <05961> style; 15:21 Mattithiah <04993>, Eliphelehu <0466>, Mikneiah <04737>, Obed-Edom <05654>, Jeiel <03273>, and Azaziah <05812> were to play the lyres <03658> according <05921> to the sheminith <08067> style, as led by the director <05329>; 15:22 Kenaniah <03663>, the leader <08269> of the Levites <03881>, was in charge <03256> of transport <04853>, for <03588> he <01931> was well-informed <0995> on this matter; 15:23 Berechiah <01296> and Elkanah <0511> were guardians <07778> of the ark <0727>; 15:24 Shebaniah <07645>, Joshaphat <03146>, Nethanel <05417>, Amasai <06022>, Zechariah <02148>, Benaiah <01141>, and Eliezer <0461> the priests <03548> were to blow <02690> the trumpets <02689> before <06440> the ark <0727> of God <0430>; Obed-Edom <05654> and Jehiel <03174> were also guardians <07778> of the ark <0727>. 15:25 So David <01732>, the leaders <02205> of Israel <03478>, and the commanders <08269> of units of a thousand <0505> went <01980> to bring up <05927> the ark <0727> of the Lord’s <03068> covenant <01285> from <04480> the house <01004> of Obed-Edom <05654> with celebration <08057>. 15:26 When <01961> God <0430> helped <05826> the Levites <03881> who were carrying <05375> the ark <0727> of the Lord’s <03068> covenant <01285>, they sacrificed <02076> seven <07651> bulls <06499> and seven <07651> rams <0352>. 15:27 David <01732> was wrapped <03736> in a linen <0948> robe <04598>, as were all <03605> the Levites <03881> carrying <05375> the ark <0727>, the musicians <07891>, and Kenaniah <03663> the supervisor <08269> of transport <04853> and the musicians <07891>; David <01732> also wore a linen <0906> ephod <0646>. 15:28 All <03605> Israel <03478> brought up <05927> the ark <0727> of the Lord’s <03068> covenant <01285>; they were shouting <08643>, blowing <07782> trumpets <02689>, sounding cymbals <04700>, and playing <08085> stringed instruments <03658> <05035>. 15:29 As <01961> the ark <0727> of the Lord’s <03068> covenant <01285> entered <0935> the City <05892> of David <01732>, Michal <04324>, Saul’s <07586> daughter <01323>, looked <08259> out <01157> the window <02474>. When she saw <07200> King <04428> David <01732> jumping <07540> and celebrating <07832>, she despised <0959> him.

• 1Ch 15:1-29 -- David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem

• WORSHIP

  [isbe] WORSHIP - wur'-ship (Anglo-Saxon: weorthscipe, wyrthscype, "honor," from weorth, wurth, "worthy," "honorable," and scipe, "ship"): 1. Terms 2. Old Testament Worship 3. New Testament Worship 4. Public Christian Worship LITERA...
  

• Tact

  [nave] TACT Prov. 15:1; 25:15. In preaching, 1 Cor. 9:19-22; 2 Cor. 12:6. Of Gideon, Judg. 8:1-3. Of Saul, in managing malcontents, 1 Sam. 10:27; 11:7, 12-15. Nabal's wife, Abigail, 1 Sam. 25:18-37. In David's popular methods:...
  

• PSALMS, BOOK OF

  [isbe] PSALMS, BOOK OF - samz, (tehillim, "praises," cepher tehillim, "book of praises"; Psalmoi, Psalterion): I. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS 1. Title 2. Place in the Canon 3. Number of Psalms 4. Titles in the Hebrew Text II. AUTHORSHIP AN...
  

• PORT; PORTER

  [isbe] PORT; PORTER - port, por'-ter: "Port" in the sense of "gate" (of a city or building) is obsolete in modern English, and even in the King James Version is found only in Neh 2:13. "Porter," as "gate-keeper," however, is still ...
  

• Obed-edom

  [ebd] servant of Edom. (1.) "The Gittite" (probably so called because he was a native of Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the family of the Korhites (1 Chr. 26:1, 4-8), to whom was specially intrusted the custody of the ark (1 Chr. 15:18...
  [isbe] OBED-EDOM - o'-bed-e'-dom (`obhedh 'edhowm (2 Ch 25:24), `obhedd 'edhom (2 Sam 6:10; 1 Ch 13:13,14; 15:25), but elsewhere without hyphen, "servant of (god) Edom"; so W. R. Smith, Religion of Semites (2), 42, and H. P. Smith,...
  [nave] OBED-EDOM 1. Korhite Levite. Doorkeeper of the ark, 1 Chr. 15:18, 24; 26:4-8. David leaves ark with, 2 Sam. 6:10; 1 Chr. 13:13, 14. Ark removed from, 2 Sam. 6:12; 1 Chr. 15:25. Appointed to sound with harps, 1 Chr. 15:21....
  

• OBEDEDOM

  [smith] (servant of Edom). A Levite, described as a Gittite, (2 Samuel 6:10,11) that is, probably, a native of the Levitical city of Gath-rimmon in Manasseh, which was assigned to the Kohathites. (Joshua 21:25) (B.C. 1045.) After...
  

• Music

  [ebd] Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the Deluge, the first mention of ...
  [isbe] MUSIC - mu'-zik: I. IMPORTANCE 1. The Sole Art Cultivated 2. A Wide Vocabulary of Musical Terms 3. Place in Social and Personal Life 4. Universal Language of Emotions 5. Use in Divine Service 6. Part at Religious Reformation...
  [smith] The most ancient music. --The inventor of musical instruments, like the first poet and the first forger of metals, was a Cainite. We learn from (Genesis 4:21) that Jubal the son of Lamech was "the father of all such as handl...
  [nave] MUSIC Teachers of, 1 Chr. 15:22; 25:7, 8; 2 Chr. 23:13. Physical effect of, on people, 1 Sam. 16:15, 16, 23. Discoursed during the offering of sacrifices, 2 Chr. 29:27, 28. Precentor, Neh. 12:42. Chief musician, Neh. 12:...
  

• Kirjath-jearim

  [ebd] city of jaars; i.e., of woods or forests, a Gibeonite town (Josh. 9:17) on the border of Benjamin, to which tribe it was assigned (18:15, 28). The ark was brought to this place (1 Sam. 7:1, 2) from Beth-shemesh and put in ch...
  

• JEHIEL

  [ebd] God's living one. (1.) The father of Gibeon (1 Chr. 9:35). (2.) One of David's guard (1 Chr. 11:44). (3.) One of the Levites "of the second degree," appointed to conduct the music on the occasion of the ark's being removed t...
  [smith] (God lives). One of the Levites appointed by David to assist in the service of the house of God. (1 Chronicles 15:18,20; 16:5) One of the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, put to death by his brother Jehoram. (2 Chron...
  

• JEDUTHUN

  [ebd] lauder; praising, a Levite of the family of Merari, and one of the three masters of music appointed by David (1 Chr. 16:41, 42; 25:1-6). He is called in 2 Chr. 35:15 "the king's seer." His descendants are mentioned as singer...
  [smith] (praising), a Levite of the family of Merari, is probably the same as Ethan. Comp. (1 Chronicles 15:17,19) with 1Chr 16:41,42; 25:1,3,6; 2Chr 35:15 His office was generally to preside over the music of the temple service, ...
  

• Harp

  [ebd] (Heb. kinnor), the national instrument of the Hebrews. It was invented by Jubal (Gen. 4:21). Some think the word kinnor denotes the whole class of stringed instruments. It was used as an accompaniment to songs of cheerfulnes...
  

• Hannah

  [ebd] favour, grace, one of the wives of Elkanah the Levite, and the mother of Samuel (1 Sam. 1; 2). Her home was at Ramathaim-zophim, whence she was wont every year to go to Shiloh, where the tabernacle had been pitched by Joshua...
  

• David

  [nave] DAVID 1. King of Israel. Genealogy of, Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Sam. 16:11; 17:12; 1 Chr. 2:3-15; Matt. 1:1-6; Luke 3:31-38. A shepherd, 1 Sam. 16:11. Kills a lion and a bear, 1 Sam. 17:34-36. Anointed king, while a youth, by the ...
  

• Cymbals

  [ebd] (Heb. tzeltzelim, from a root meaning to "tinkle"), musical instruments, consisting of two convex pieces of brass one held in each hand, which were clashed together to produce a loud clanging sound; castanets; "loud cymbals....
  

• Chenaiah

  [ebd] whom Jehovah hath made. "Chief of the Levites," probably a Kohathite (1 Chr. 15:22), and therefore not the same as mentioned in 26:29.
  

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

  [ebd] The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and hence "Chronicles." In the Sep...
  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• Brass

  [ebd] which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly copper (Deut. 8:9). It was used for fetters (Judg. 16:21; 2 Kings 25:7), for pieces of...
  

• BEAUTY

  [isbe] BEAUTY - bu'-ti: The space allotted to this topic allows liberty only for the statement of two problems to students of the Bible. They should give distinct attention to the interblending of aesthetics with ethics in the Scri...
  

• Ark

  [nave] ARK 1. Noah's. Directions for building of, Gen. 6:14-16. Noah and family preserved in, Gen. 6:18; 7:8; Matt. 24:38; Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:20. Animals saved in, Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:1-16. 2. Of Bulrushes, Ex. 2:3. 3. In the Tab...
  

• ARK OF THE COVENANT

  [smith] The first piece of the tabernacle?s furniture, for which precise directions were delivered. Exod 25. I. Description. -- It appears to have been an oblong chest of shittim (acacia) wood, 2 1/2 cubits long by 1 1/2 broad and de...
  

• The Ark Brought to Zion

  

• [1Ch 15:29] Coming Up The Road

  When David danced before the Lord, The ark was coming up the road; His wife despised him in her heart; The ark was coming up the road. Refrain It’s coming, hallelujah! The ark is coming up the road; It’s coming, hallelujah! The ark is coming up the road. I do believe without a doubt— The ark is coming up the road— God’s children have a right to shout— The ark is coming up the road. Refrain Sing on, pray on, we’re gaining ground; The ark is coming up the road; The pow’r of God is coming down; The ark is coming up the road. Refrain

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• What Precedent Does the Scripture Furnish for Solos, Duets and Choir Singing in Church?
  In I Cor. 14:26, Paul, referring to the forms of worship of the Corinthian church, wrote: "When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, etc" This verse, especially when read in connection with verse 15, "I will sing ...

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