1 Chronicles 16:35-43

35 ¹Say also: “Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

36 ²Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! ” ³Then all the people said, “Amen! ” and praised the Lord.

Worship Before the Ark

37 So David left Asaph and his brothers there ⁴before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister regularly before the ark ⁵as each day required,

38 and also ⁶Obed-edom and his^[a] sixty-eight brothers, while ⁷Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and ⁸Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

39 And he left ⁹Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord ¹⁰in the high place that was at Gibeon

40 to offer burnt offerings to the Lord ¹¹on the altar of burnt offering ¹²regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the Lord that he commanded Israel.

41 With them were ¹³Heman and Jeduthun ¹⁴and the rest of those chosen and ¹⁵expressly named to give thanks to the Lord, ¹⁶for his steadfast love endures forever.

42 Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments ¹⁷for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.

43 ¹⁸Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.

1 Chronicles 16:35-43 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 16

This chapter relates that David offered sacrifices when the ark was brought into his city, 1Ch 16:1-3 who were the singers he appointed to sing before it continually, 1Ch 16:4-6 and the song he that day composed and delivered to them to sing, 1Ch 16:7-36 and that he appointed not only proper persons to minister before the ark, but also before the tabernacle at Gibeon, 1Ch 16:37-43.

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Cross References

• 1. 16:35 For ver. 35, 36, see Ps. 106:47, 48
• 2. 16:36 Ps. 41:13; [1 Kgs. 8:15]
• 3. 16:36 [Deut. 27:15; Ps. 106:48]
• 4. 16:37 ver. 4, 5
• 5. 16:37 2 Chr. 31:16
• 6. 16:38 ch. 26:4
• 7. 16:38 ch. 26:4
• 8. 16:38 ch. 26:10, 16
• 9. 16:39 ch. 15:11
• 10. 16:39 See 1 Kgs. 3:4
• 11. 16:40 Ex. 27:1
• 12. 16:40 See Ex. 29:38-41; Num. 28:3-8
• 13. 16:41 See ch. 6:33
• 14. 16:41 [ch. 25:1, 3, 6]
• 15. 16:41 Num. 1:17
• 16. 16:41 2 Chr. 5:13; 7:3, 6; 20:21; Ezra 3:11; Jer. 33:11; See ver. 34
• 17. 16:42 [ch. 25:7; 2 Chr. 29:27]
• 18. 16:43 2 Sam. 6:19, 20

Footnotes

• [a] 16:38 Hebrew 'their'