1 Chronicles 25:7

7 the number of themselves and their relatives, who were trained in singing to the LORD and who were all skillful, was 288.

1 Chronicles 25:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 25:7

So the number of them, with their brethren
Who each of them had twelve with them, as after reckoned: that were instructed in the songs of the Lord;
taught how to sing them: [even] all that were cunning;
expert and well skilled in the science of singing: was two hundred and eighty eight;
for there being twenty four classes answerable to those of the priests, and twelve in each class, twelve times twenty four makes two hundred and eighty eight.

1 Chronicles 25:7 In-Context

5 All these were the family of Heman the king's seer, according to God's promise to honor him. God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

6 They were all under their father's direction when singing in the LORD's temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres to provide service in God's temple, by order of the king. As for Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman,

7 the number of themselves and their relatives, who were trained in singing to the LORD and who were all skillful, was 288.

8 They cast lots for their assigned duties, small as well as great, teacher and pupil alike.

9 The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, his relatives, and his family, 12;