ASAPH a'-saf ('acaph): Is the name of three men in the Old Testament, of whom one is the reputed author of Psalms 50 and 73-83. He was one of David's...
Overview - 1?Chronicles 25 1?The number and offices of the singers. 8?Their division by lot into four and twenty orders. Treasury of Scripture Knowle...
Music, InstrumentalAmong instruments of music used by the Hebrews a principal place is given to stringed instruments. These were, The kinnor, the har...
Overview - 2?Samuel 6 1?David fetches the ark from Kirjath-jearim on a new cart. 6?Uzzah is smitten at Perez-uzzah. 9?God blesses Obed-edom for the ...
Nehemiah 12:27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem In which many priests and Levites assisted, and seems to be the reason of the above acco...
Nehemiah 12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall Which was so broad as to walk upon it, and there was a procession of the princes o...
Matthew 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, &c.] Not Isaiah, as some copies in the times of Jerom read, but Asaph, who i...
Psalm CL. Psalm CL. 1. Although the arrangement of the Psalms, which seems to me to contain the secret of a mighty mystery, hath not yet been revealed...
1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men That is, of all men, all languages that men anywhere speak, or have been spoken by them. The...
Chapter 13 13:3 And let us bring again the a ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul. (a) His first concern was to restore...
Chapter 5 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto J...
Overview - Nehemiah 12 1?The priests and the Levites which came up with Zerubbabel. 10?The succession of high priests. 22?Certain chief Levites. 27?Th...
From hence they went up from the Court of the Women fifteen steps. There were fifteen steps (saith Josephus) ascending from the partition wall of the ...
Chapter 6 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from a Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose ...
Music [N] [E] [S] Early invention of Genesis 4:21 DIVIDED INTO Vocal 2?Samuel 19:35 ; Acts 16:25 Instrumental Daniel 6:18 Designed to p...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. With the loudest, clearest note call the people together. Make all men to know that we ...
Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings Or, O land, as calling to it; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi. It is very difficult to determine what land is...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Many a time have they afflicted, me from my youth. Israel repeats her statement of her repeated afflictions. The fact was uppermo...
Chapter 15 15:1 And [David] made him houses in the a city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. (a) That was i...
1 Corinthians 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying This is to be understood of praying and prophesying in public, and not in private; and not to be r...