1 Chronicles 25:5

Contextual Overview

¹ Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaf, and of Heman, and of Yedutun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was: ¹ Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service 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 the workmen according to their service was: ¹ David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was: ¹ David and the commanders of the army chose some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to preach and play harps, lyres, and cymbals. Here is a list of the men who served in this way: ¹ David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. The following men were assigned this responsibility: ¹Moreover, David and the commanders of the army selected for the [temple] service some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals. The list of the musicians who performed their service was as follows: ¹ Moreover, David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals; and the number of those who performed this service was: 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 those who did the work according to their service was: ¹ So Dauid and the captaines of the armie separated for the ministerie the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun, who should sing prophesies with harpes, with violes, and with cymbales, and their nomber was euen of the men for the office of their ministerie, to wit, ¹Moreover, David and the commanders of the army separated for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals; and the number of those who performed their service was:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king's seer: 1 Chronicles 21:9, 1 Samuel 9:9

words: or, matters

to lift up: This may denote that he presided over those who used wind instruments.

God gave: 1 Chronicles 28:5, Genesis 33:5, Psalms 127:3, Isaiah 8:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:9 - my sons 2 Samuel 15:27 - a seer 1 Chronicles 2:6 - Heman

Cross-References

Genesis 24:36
Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

Genesis 24:36
And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has.

Genesis 24:36
Sarah, my master's wife, gave birth to a son when she was old, and my master has given everything he owns to that son.

Genesis 24:36
My master's wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

Genesis 24:36
"Now Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was in her old age, and he has given everything that he has to him.

Genesis 24:36
"Now my master's wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.

Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.

Genesis 24:36
Now Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.

Genesis 24:36
Sarah, my master's wife, didn't have any children until she was very old. Then she had a son, and my master has given him everything.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All these were the sons of Heman, the king's seer,.... The prophet of the king, as the Targum, who was frequently with him, assisting him

in the words of God: in divine things:

to lift up the horn; to blow with the hornpipe or trumpet, and to magnify and set forth the greatness of the kingdom of Israel, and especially of the King Messiah, the horn of salvation, that would be raised up in the house of David:

and God gave to Heman fourteen sons; whose names are before mentioned:

and three daughters; of whom we have no more account, only may observe, that both are the gifts of God, and an heritage from him, Psalms 127:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To lift up the horn - Some take this literally, and consider that Heman and his sons played on the born in the musical services; but there is no other evidence that the horn was so employed. Perhaps the most probable explanation is that it has been transferred from the next clause, where (as here) it followed the word “God,” with the sense that “God, to exalt Heman’s horn (or, increase his dignity), gave him fourteen sons and three daughters.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 25:5. To lift up the horn — "The horn of prophecy," says Jarchi; "to sound with the trumpet in the words of prophecy before the Lord."-T.

Three daughters. — These also were employed among the singers.