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1 Chronicles 25:7 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 25 · verse 7
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.1 Chronicles 25:7 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 25:7 in context
5All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
7So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
8And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
9Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- instructedlâmadproperly, to goadH3925 →
- fourscoreshᵉmônîymeighty, also eightiethH8084 →
- brethrenʼâcha brother )H251 →
- cunningbîynto separate mentallyH995 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- numbermiçpâra number, definite or indefinite (large, innumerableH4557 →
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Observe, I. Singing the praises of God is here called prophesying (Ch1 25:1-3), not that all those who were employed in this service were honoured with the visions of God, or could foretel things to come. Heman indeed is said to be the king's seer in the words of God (Ch1 25:5);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7