1 Chronicles 16:3

3 and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, ^[a] and a cake of raisins.

1 Chronicles 16:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 16:3

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 16:1).

1 Chronicles 16:3 In-Context

1 And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

2 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord

3 and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

4 Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.

5 Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

Footnotes

• [a] 16:3 Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain