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1 Chronicles 15:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth; "
1 Chronicles 15:20
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18 and with them their brothers of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;
20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
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1 Chronicles 15:1
"David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it."
1 Chronicles 15:2
"Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For the LORD has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”"
1 Chronicles 15:3
"David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the LORD’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it."
1 Chronicles 15:4
"David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:"
1 Chronicles 15:5
"of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;"
1 Chronicles 15:6
"of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;"
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