1 Chronicles 15:21

Contextual Overview

¹David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. ¹ [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. ¹ And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. ¹ David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. ¹ David built houses for himself in Jerusalem. Then he prepared a place for the Ark of God, and he set up a tent for it. ¹ David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. ¹David built houses for himself in the City of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. ¹ Now David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. ¹ [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. ¹ And Dauid made him houses in the citie of Dauid, and prepared a place for the Arke of God, and pitched for it a tent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mattithiah: 1 Chronicles 15:18, 1 Chronicles 16:5

harps: 1 Chronicles 25:6, 1 Chronicles 25:7, 1 Samuel 10:5, Psalms 33:2, Psalms 81:1, Psalms 81:2, Psalms 92:3, Psalms 150:3

Sheminith to excel: or, eighth to oversee, Psalms 6:1, Psalms 12:1, *titles

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:8 - Jehiel 1 Chronicles 25:3 - Mattithiah 1 Chronicles 26:4 - Obededom

Cross-References

Genesis 15:15
But you will go to your fathers in shalom. You will be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
And as for you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
And you, Abram, will die in peace and will be buried at an old age.

Genesis 15:15
But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
"As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
"As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
But thou shalt goe vnto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good age.

Genesis 15:15
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15:15
As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah,.... These six were appointed to sound:

with harps on the Sheminith to excel; which Sheminith some take to be an harp with eight strings, or the beginning of a song, or a musical tone, the bass; see the title of Psalms 6:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Harps on the Sheminith - “Sheminith” properly means “the eighth,” and has been compared with the modern musical term “octave.” Further, “Sheminith” and “Alamoth” are regarded as contrasted, and the harps of Mattithiah and his companions are supposed to have been pitched an octave below the psalteries of Zechariah and his brethren.

The word translated “to excel,” is taken as meaning “to lead,” and Mattithiah, etc., as leaders of the singers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 15:21. On the Sheminith — According to the Targum, this signifies an instrument that sounded an octave, or, according to others, an instrument with eight strings. The Syriac and Arabic have it, instruments to sing with daily, at the third, sixth, and ninth hour; the Vulgate, an octave, for a song of victory: some think the eighth band of the musicians is intended, who had the strongest and most sonorous voices; and that it is in this sense that shelomith and lenatstseach should be understood.