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Hebrew Modern Translation

דברי הימים א 16:5

אסף הראש ומשנהו זכריה יעיאל ושמירמות ויחיאל ומתתיה ואליאב ובניהו ועבד אדם ויעיאל בכלי נבלים ובכנרות ואסף במצלתים משמיע׃

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Asaph;   Benaiah;   Cymbal;   David;   Eliab;   Harp;   Jeiel;   Mattithiah;   Music;   Obed-Edom;   Psaltery;   Shemiramoth;   Zechariah (Zecharias);   Thompson Chain Reference - Asaph;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Music;   Sciences;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Cymbal;   Harp;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Music;   Psalms, book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Jeiel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Benaiah;   Eliab;   Jeiel;   Mattithiah;   Music;   Obed Edom;   Priest;   Psalms;   Shemiramoth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eliab;   Jehiel;   Jeiel;   Mattithiah;   Obed-Edom;   Shemiramoth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benaiah;   Chronicles, I;   Jehiel;   Jeiel;   Mattithiah;   Obed-Edom;   Shemiramoth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Music (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Asaph ;   Benaiah ;   Eliab ;   Jehiel ;   Jeiel ;   Mattithiah ;   Obededom ;   Shemiramoth ;   Zechariah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bena'iah;   Eli'ab;   Jehi'el;   Je-I'el;   Matithi'ah;   Music;   O'bed-E'dom;   Shir'amoth;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Music;   Obed-Edom;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Asaph;   Benaiah;   Eliab;   Gershon;   Jaaziel;   Jehiel;   Jeiel;   King;   Mattithiah;   Obed-Edom;   Shemiramoth;   Zechariah (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asaph;   Benaiah;   Eliab;   Harp and Lyre;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
אסף הראש ומשנהו זכריה יעיאל ושמירמות ויחיאל ומתתיה ואליאב ובניהו ועבד אדם ויעיאל בכלי נבלים ובכנרות ואסף במצלתים משמיע
Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
אָסָ֥ף הָרֹ֖אשׁ וּמִשְׁנֵ֣הוּ זְכַרְיָ֑ה יְעִיאֵ֡ל וּשְׁמִֽירָמֹ֡ות וִֽיחִיאֵ֡ל וּמַתִּתְיָ֡ה וֶאֱלִיאָ֡ב וּבְנָיָהוּ֩ וְעֹבֵ֨ד אֱדֹ֜ם וִֽיעִיאֵ֗ל בִּכְלֵ֤י נְבָלִים֙ וּבְכִנֹּרֹ֔ות וְאָסָ֖ף בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם מַשְׁמִֽיעַ ׃
Westminster Leningrad Codex
אָסָף הָרֹאשׁ וּמִשְׁנֵהוּ זְכַרְיָה יְעִיאֵל וּשְׁמִֽירָמוֹת וִֽיחִיאֵל וּמַתִּתְיָה וֶאֱלִיאָב וּבְנָיָהוּ וְעֹבֵד אֱדֹם וִֽיעִיאֵל בִּכְלֵי נְבָלִים וּבְכִנֹּרוֹת וְאָסָף בַּֽמְצִלְתַּיִם מַשְׁמִֽיעַ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Asaph: 1 Chronicles 6:39, 1 Chronicles 15:16-24, 1 Chronicles 25:1-6

psalteries and with harps: Heb. instruments of psalteries and harps, 1 Chronicles 15:20, 1 Chronicles 15:21, 2 Chronicles 29:25

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 10:5 - a psaltery 2 Samuel 6:10 - Obededom 2 Samuel 23:1 - sweet psalmist 1 Chronicles 13:8 - with harps 1 Chronicles 13:13 - Obededom 1 Chronicles 15:18 - Zechariah 1 Chronicles 15:19 - General 1 Chronicles 25:2 - Asaph 1 Chronicles 26:4 - Obededom 2 Chronicles 20:19 - Levites 2 Chronicles 34:12 - all Ezra 3:10 - trumpets Nehemiah 12:27 - thanksgivings Psalms 150:5 - the loud cymbals Daniel 3:10 - the cornet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Asaph the chief,.... Of those that were now appointed: otherwise, of the three principal singers, Heman was the chief, and Asaph next, 1 Chronicles 6:33

and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, with psalteries, and with harps; to play upon them before the ark at the same time the psalms and songs were vocally sung; the above persons are such as are named before, 1 Chronicles 15:18,

but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; he struck and played upon them, see 1 Chronicles 15:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 16:5. Asaph — See the preceding chapter, 1 Chronicles 15:17, &c.


 
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