"Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God." — 1 Chronicles 16:6

1 Chronicles 16:6 · KJV

“Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.”

— 1 Chronicles 16:6

Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; {with psalteries...: Heb. with instruments of psalteries and harps}

Verse 7

Then on that day David delivered first {this psalm} to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

1 Chronicles 16 — Context

And he appointed {certain} of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:

Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

Then on that day David delivered first {this psalm} to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:26-28

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 13:12

And, behold, God himself {is} with us for {our} captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2 Chronicles 5:12-13

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:)

Numbers 10:8

And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.

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