2 Chronicles 29:25

25 ¹And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, ²according to the commandment of David and of Gad ³the king's seer and of ⁴Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.

2 Chronicles 29:25 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 29:25

And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals,
with psalteries, and with harps
To play upon, which were the three principal instruments of music used in religious worship, and what had been disused in the times of Ahaz: according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and
Nathan the prophet;
this sort of music was not commanded by the law of Moses, but was directed to by David under a divine influence, and was approved of by the prophets of the Lord here mentioned: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets;
the Targum is,

``for by the Word of the Lord was the commandment by the hand of the prophets.''

2 Chronicles 29:25 In-Context

23 Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,

24 and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

25 And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.

26 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

27 Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 16:4; 1 Chronicles 25:6; [1 Chronicles 15:16]
• 2. 2 Chronicles 8:14; 1 Chronicles 23:5; 1 Chronicles 25:1
• 3. See 1 Samuel 9:9
• 4. 2 Samuel 12:1