1 Chronicles 9:33

33 Now these are ¹the singers, heads of fathers' households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were engaged ²in their work day and night.

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1 Chronicles 9:33 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 9:33

And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the
Levites
Others of them were employed in singing, and were masters of the song, and presided in that service, see ( 1 Chronicles 6:31 ) who remaining

in the chambers were free;
from all other work and service; and there they abode, even in the chambers of the temple, that they might be near to perform their work, and not be defiled, and made unfit for it:

for they were employed in that work day and night;
some or other of them, either in composing or singing psalms and hymns, or teaching others how to sing them.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Chronicles 9:33 In-Context

31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the responsibility over the things which were baked in pans.

32 Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath.

33 Now these are the singers, heads of fathers' households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were engaged in their work day and night.

34 These were heads of fathers' households of the Levites according to their generations, chief men, who lived in Jerusalem.

35 In Gibeon Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived, and his wife's name was Maacah,

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1. 1 Chronicles 6:31-47; 1 Chronicles 25:1
2. Psalms 134:1

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[a]. Lit "over them in the work"

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