7So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
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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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Observe, I. Singing the praises of God is here called prophesying (1 Chron. 25:1-3), not that all those who were employed in this service were honoured with the visions of God, or could foretel things to come. Heman indeed is said to be the king’s seer in the words of God (1 Chron. 25:5); but the psalms they sang were composed by the prophets, and many of them were prophetical; and the edification…
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