1st Chronicles Chapter 6 verse 31 Holy Bible
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah, after that the ark had rest.
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And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.
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And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah after that the ark was in rest.
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And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
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And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
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These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest.
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And these `are' they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 31-48. - In the early verses of this section we may notice, if not the first beginning, yet some of the earliest crystallization of the forms of religious services. It was given to David to settle the ark after its travels through the wilderness, its sojourn in various places since then, doubtless always within the care of some Levitical family (except when taken by enemies, 1 Samuel 4:11; 1 Samuel 5, 6.), and in especial its prolonged twenty years' sojourn at Kirjath-jearim (1 Samuel 7:1, 2; 2 Samuel 6:1-19; 1 Chronicles 13:3-14; 1 Chronicles 15:1-3; 1 Chronicles 17:5). It now had rest, though its place of rest was only within "curtains" (2 Samuel 7:2; 1 Chronicles 17:1), i.e. in a special separate tent prepared for it by David, which tent was probably the suggestion, and as it were the nucleus, of the coming grand temple itself - the house of God. The event was naturally one of great joy and thanksgiving, of which David himself was the chief leader (2 Samuel 6:17-21; 1 Chronicles 16:1-3); but it appears also that it furnished the occasion of appointing fixed choir conductors, leaders of the service of song" (1 Chronicles 16:4-7, 37, 41, 42; 1 Chronicles 25:1-7).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) Set over the service of song.--Literally, made stand by the sides (hands) of song, as if to minister to the sacred music. (Comp. 1Chronicles 25:2-3, where the same peculiar phrase recurs, and Psalm 123:2, "as the eyes of slaves are unto the hand of their Lord." Comp. also the common heading of the Psalms, "to the conductor or precentor;" Authorised Version, "chief musician.")In the house of the Lord.--In David's time, a tent, as next verse declares.After that the ark had rest.--Perhaps locative: at the restin-place of the Ark (comp. Genesis 8:9). From the time of its capture by the Philistines (2Samuel 6:17), the Ark had no certain dwelling till it was lodged in the tent which David spread for it on Mount Zion.
