1 Tawarikh 16:37-42

David Appoints Worship Leaders

16:37 David ¹  left Asaph and his colleagues there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant to serve before the ark regularly and fulfill each day’s requirements, ²  16:38 including Obed-Edom and sixty-eight colleagues. Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were gatekeepers. 16:39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests served ³  before the Lord’s tabernacle at the worship center ⁴  in Gibeon, 16:40 regularly offering burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar for burnt sacrifice, morning and evening, according to what is prescribed in the law of the Lord which he charged Israel to observe. ⁵  16:41 Joining them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the Lord. (For his loyal love endures!) ⁶  16:42 Heman and Jeduthun were in charge of the music, including the trumpets, cymbals, and the other musical instruments used in praising God. The sons of Jeduthun guarded the entrance. ⁷ 

1 Tawarikh 23:27-32

23:27 According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted. ⁸ 

23:28 Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. ⁹  23:29 They also took care of ¹⁰  the bread that is displayed, the flour for offerings, the unleavened wafers, the round cakes, the mixing, and all the measuring. ¹¹  23:30 They also stood in a designated place ¹²  every morning and offered thanks and praise to the Lord. They also did this in the evening 23:31 and whenever burnt sacrifices were offered to the Lord on the Sabbath and at new moon festivals and assemblies. A designated number were to serve before the Lord regularly in accordance with regulations. ¹³  23:32 They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the Lord’s temple. ¹⁴ 

[16:37]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:37]  ² tn Heb “according to the matter of the day in its day.”

[16:39]  ³ tn The word “served” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[16:39]  ⁴ tn Or “high place.”

[16:40]  ⁵ tn Heb “which he commanded Israel.”

[16:41]  ⁶ tn Perhaps this refers to the refrain of their songs of praise (see Ps 136). In this case one could translate, “to give thanks to the Lord with songs using the refrain, ‘For his loyal love endures.’”

[16:42]  ⁷ tn Heb “and with them, Heman and Jeduthun, trumpets and cymbals for sounding, and the instrument of song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun [were] at the gate.”

[23:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “for by the final words of David, they were the number of the sons of Levi, from a son of twenty years and upward.”

[23:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the Lord concerning the courtyards and concerning the rooms and concerning the purification of all holiness and the work of the service of the house of God.”

[23:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “with respect to.”

[23:29]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew terms מְשׂוּרָה (mÿsurah) and מִדָּה (middah) refer to different types of measurements.

[23:30]  ¹² tn Heb “and to stand.”

[23:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “by number according to the manner upon them, regularly before the Lord.”

[23:32]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.”