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Contemporary English Version

1 Chronicles 16:6

and the two priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets every day in front of the sacred chest.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Asaph;   Benaiah;   David;   Jahaziel;   Music;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sciences;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Benaiah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Jahaziel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Benaiah;   Jahaziel;   Music;   Priest;   Psalms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jahaziel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benaiah;   Chronicles, I;   Jahaziel;   Jeiel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Benaiah ;   Jahaziel ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bena'iah;   Jaha'zi-El;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Benaiah;   Jahaziel;   King;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Asaph;   Benaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
Hebrew Names Version
and Benayah and Yachazi'el the Kohanim with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
King James Version
Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
English Standard Version
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
New Century Version
Benaiah and Jahaziel were priests who blew the trumpets regularly before the Ark of the Agreement with God.
New English Translation
and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of God's covenant.
Amplified Bible
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
New American Standard Bible
and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
World English Bible
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Benaiah and Iahaziel Priestes, with trumpets continually before the Arke of the couenant of God.
Legacy Standard Bible
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
Berean Standard Bible
and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
Complete Jewish Bible
B'nayah and Yachzi'el the cohanim blew the trumpets continually before the ark for the covenant of God.
Darby Translation
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Benaiah and Jahaziel were the priests who always blew the trumpets before the Box of God's Agreement.
George Lamsa Translation
These were all the priests who sounded with trumpets continually before the ark of the LORD.
Good News Translation
and two priests, Benaiah and Jahaziel, were to blow trumpets regularly in front of the Covenant Box.
Lexham English Bible
And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew on the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
Literal Translation
And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were continually with trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Benaia and Iehasiel the prestes with tabrettes, allwaye before the Arke of ye couenaunt of God.
American Standard Version
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Bible in Basic English
And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, blowing horns all the time before the ark of the agreement of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Banaia and Iahaziel priestes blewe with trumpettes continually before the arke of the couenaunt of God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
King James Version (1611)
Benaiah also and Iahaziel the Priestes, with trumpets continually before the Arke of the Couenant of God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Banaeas and Oziel the priests sounding continually with trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God in that day.
English Revised Version
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sotheli he ordeynede Banaye and Aziel, preestis, bifor the arke of the boond of pees of the Lord, for to trumpe contynueli.
Update Bible Version
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
New King James Version
Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.
New Living Translation
The priests, Benaiah and Jahaziel, played the trumpets regularly before the Ark of God's Covenant.
New Life Bible
The religious leaders Benaiah and Jahaziel sounded the horns all the time in front of the special box with the Law of God.
New Revised Standard
and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets regularly, before the ark of the covenant of God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Benaiah and Jahaziel, the priests, - with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests, to sound the trumpet continually before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
and Benai'ah and Jaha'ziel the priests were to blow trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
Young's Literal Translation
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests [are] with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

Contextual Overview

1 They put the sacred chest inside the tent that David had set up for it, then they offered sacrifices to please the Lord and sacrifices to ask his blessing. 2 After David had finished, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord 3 and gave every person in the crowd a small loaf of bread, some meat, and a handful of raisins. 4 David appointed some of the Levites to serve at the sacred chest; they were to play music and sing praises to the Lord God of Israel. 5 Asaph was their leader, and Zechariah was his assistant. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and another man named Jeiel were appointed to play small harps and stringed instruments. Asaph himself played the cymbals, 6 and the two priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets every day in front of the sacred chest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with trumpets: Numbers 10:8, 2 Chronicles 5:12, 2 Chronicles 5:13, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 2 Chronicles 29:26-28

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:18 - Zechariah 1 Chronicles 15:24 - the priests 2 Chronicles 7:6 - the priests Ezra 3:10 - trumpets Psalms 81:3 - Blow Daniel 3:10 - the cornet

Cross-References

Genesis 16:8
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."
Genesis 16:9
The angel said, "Go back to Sarai and be her slave.
Genesis 24:10
Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.
Exodus 2:15
When the king heard what Moses had done, the king wanted to kill him. But Moses escaped and went to the land of Midian. One day, Moses was sitting there by a well,
Job 2:6
"All right!" the Lord replied. "Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him."
Proverbs 14:29
It's smart to be patient, but it's stupid to lose your temper.
Proverbs 15:1
A kind answer soothes angry feelings, but harsh words stir them up.
Proverbs 27:8
When you are far from home, you feel like a bird without a nest.
Proverbs 29:19
Even when servants are smart, it takes more than words to make them obey.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
Don't give up your job when your boss gets angry. If you stay calm, you'll be forgiven.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests,.... These were appointed to blow

with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; morning and evening.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.


 
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