1 Chronicles 15:20

_AND ZECHARIAH, AND AZIEL, AND SHEMIRAMOTH, AND JEHIEL, AND UNNI, AND ELIAB, AND MAASEIAH, AND BENAIAH, WITH PSALTERIES ON ALAMOTH;_ On Alamoth, х_ `AL_ (H5921) _ `ªLAAMOWT_ (H5961] - after the manner of virgins or girls; i:e., with the female voice (see Gesenius, sub voce х_ `ALMAAH_ (H5959)]). Alamoth and Sheminith denote different parts of music; the former answering probably to our treble, or soprano, and the latter to the bass, or perhaps an octave below the treble. In short, Alamoth is supposed to mean with treble voices; Sheminith probably means with bass voices....

1-24 Wise and good men may be guilty of oversights, which they will correct, as soon as they are aware of them. David does not try to justify what had been done amiss, nor to lay the blame on others; but he owns himself guilty, with others, of not seeking God in due order...

Verse 1 Chronicles 15:20. _WITH PSALTERIES ON ALAMOTH_] Some suppose that the word signifies _virgins_, or _women singers_, the persons mentioned here being appointed to accompany them with psalteries, and preside over them. The Vulgate says _arcana cantabant_, they sang _secret things_ or _mysteries_; probably _prophetic hymns_....

PSALTERIES ON ALAMOTH - Probably, psalteries whose tone resembled the voices of girls (עלמות _‛__ălâmôth_). Compare the “female flutes” of the Lydians....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 15:1 The contents of this verse and the following verses up to the twenty-fifth have no parallel in the Book of Samuel, and excite suggestion respecting the different objects with which the compiler of Chronicles wrote, as compared with those of the author of the former work. They also direct fresh attention to the sources upon which they drew. The history of the preparations made for the reception of the ark, and for its safe and religious escort into the city, is now proceeded with. These preparations occupied the three months, or part of the three months, spoken of in 1 Chronicles 13:14. The HOUSES may have been both his own ...

AND ZECHARIAH, AND AZIEL, AND SHEMIRAMOTH, AND JEHIEL, AND UNNI, AND ELIAB, AND MAASEIAH, AND BENAIAH,.... Who were eight of the second degree; Aziel is the same with Jaaziel, 1 Chronicles 15:18 and Ben is left out, in whose room Azaziah, in the next verse, seems to be put; Ben is thought to be sick or dead before they came to execute their office, and whom the father of Kimchi takes to be the same with him who is expressed in the title of Psalms 9:1 which title is, "on Muthlabben", or the death of Ben: these were appointed to sound WITH PSALTERIES ON ALAMOTH; psalteries were another kind of instruments of music; and Alamoth was either the beginning of a song, to the tune of which those instruments played, or the tune itself, and the note of it; either the treble or counter tenor,

1 _;_ 2. _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. Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God; and to minister unto him for ever._ It should not be carried upon a new cart, dragged by unwilling oxen but it should be borne upon the cheerful shoulders of the God-appointed bearers, the Levites. 1 Chronicles 15:3. _And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it. And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:_ Then follows the list of them, which we need not now read. 1 C

; 1 Chronicles 16:1 . THE ARK BROUGHT TO JERUSALEM CHAPTER 15:1-16:3 _ 1. The true preparation to fetch the ark (1 Chronicles 15:1)_ 2. The great procession (1 Chronicles 15:16) 3. The ark brought back (1 Chronicles 15:25; 1 Chronicles 16:1) The ark rested in the house of Obed-edom for three months. During that time David prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent.Warned by what had happened, his conscience aroused, David said, “None ought to

1 CHRONICLES 15:1 TO 1 CHRONICLES 16:43. THE BRINGING UP OF THE ARK TO JERUSALEM (_cf._ 2 Samuel 6:12_ a_). The account given by the Chronicler is much more elaborate, stress being laid on the part played by the priests and Levites; they are not mentioned in 2 S. 1 CHRONICLES 15:2. _Cf._ Numbers 1:50; Numbers 4:15; Numbers 7:9;...

AZIEL. Another name, Jaaziel, in 1 Chronicles 15:18. ON. Hebrew. _'al,_ relating to. ALAMOTH. The maidens' choir (see App-65.) One of three special choirs, the other two being _She_. _minith_ (a men's choir, see App-65. xix); and Jeduthun's choir. "Alarnoth" found only once as the subscript of Psalms 45. See note there. This choir was processional, not ecclesiastical. Compare 1Ch 68:11, 1Ch 68:25, which refers to this event, not to the Exodus....