1 Chronicles 25:7

7 And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of Jehovah, all of them skilful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

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 sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to exalt his power; and God had given to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

6 All these were under the direction of their fathers Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman, for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, lutes and harps, for the service of the house of God, under the direction of the king.

7 And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of Jehovah, all of them skilful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

8 And they cast lots with one another over the charges, the small as well as the great, the teacher with the scholar.

9 And the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph; to Gedaliah the second: he and his brethren and his sons were twelve.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or 'all the expert ones:' and see 1Chron. 15.22.