1 Chronicles 25:7

7 Together with their relatives who were all trained and skillful in music for the Lord, they numbered 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 sons of Heman, the king's seer, were [given] by the promises of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

6 All these men were under their own fathers' authority for the music in the Lord's temple, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God's temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the king's authority.

7 Together with their relatives who were all trained and skillful in music for the Lord, they numbered 288.

8 They cast lots impartially for their duties, the young and old alike, the teacher along with the pupil.

9 The first lot for Asaph fell to Joseph, [his sons, and his brothers- 12] [to] Gedaliah the second: him, his brothers, and his sons- 12