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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

1 Chronicles 25

1 Chronicles 25:1

1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 25 The number and offices of the singers out of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, 1 CHRONICLES 25:1. Their division by lot into twenty-four orders, 1 CHRONICLES 25:8 THE CAPTAINS OF THE HOST; both of the civil and sacred host, to wit, _all the princes of Israel, with the p... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:2

UNDER THE HANDS OF ASAPH, i.e. under his oversight and direction. According to the order of the king; in such manner and order as David appointed.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:3

THE SONS OF JEDUTHUN, or, _his sons_, (the construct form being used before the absolute, of which there are examples in Scripture,)_ Jeduthun_, called by his father's name; otherwise they are not _six_, unless either Jeduthun their father be included in that number, or Shimei, mentioned 1 CHRONICLE... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:5

THE KING'S SEER, or _prophet_, which is the same thing, 1 SAMUEL 9:9. Either he was a prophet as well as a singer; or he is thus called because he prophesied in the sense designed, 1 CHRONICLES 25:1. And he is called _the king's seer_, either because the king took special delight in him, or because... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:6

UNDER THE HANDS. i.e. under his direction, as 1 CHRONICLES 25:2. ACCORDING TO THE KING'S ORDER TO ASAPH, JEDUTHUN, AND HEMAN, Heb. _by the hands of the king, and of Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman_, i.e. according to the king's appointment, and under the conduct of Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:7

ALL THAT WERE CUNNING; who were so skilful that they were able to teach others. TWO HUNDRED FOURSCORE AND EIGHT; which, together with their scholars, make up the four thousand mentioned 1 CHRONICLES 23:5.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:8

WARD AGAINST WARD, i.e. a ward, or rank, or course of Levites answerable to one of the priests, upon whom the Levites were to wait in their holy ministrations, 1 CHRONICLES 23:28. As well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar, without any respect to their different ages or abilities.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 25:9

FOR ASAPH TO JOSEPH, i.e. for the family of Asaph, of which Joseph was. Here that clause, _he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve_, is to be understood, as it is expressed in all the following verses, otherwise they do not make up that number of two hundred and eighty-eight mentioned 1 CHRONICL... [ Continue Reading ]

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