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Gaebelein, Arno Clemens. "Commentary on 1 Chronicles 25". "Gaebelein's Annotated Bible". https://studylight.org/commentaries/eng/gab/1-chronicles-25.html. 1913-1922.
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens. "Commentary on 1 Chronicles 25". "Gaebelein's Annotated Bible". https://studylight.org/
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Verses 1-31
4. The Singers and Musicians of the Temple
CHAPTER 25
1. Sons of Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman (1 Chronicles 25:1-7 )
2. Their division by Lot into twenty-four (1 Chronicles 25:8-31 )
As we have seen before, Asaph, Jeduthun (Ethan) and Heman were the master leaders in song and music; their service was eminently spiritual, for we read “they should prophesy.” Heman especially is called the king’s seer in the words of God. This is a significant expression. How much there is in what is termed “worship”, which has nothing whatever of the words of God in it. In most of the songs used in our times there is little of the words of God and many contain unscriptural and sentimental phrases. Israel’s worship in song and music was to be spiritual, prophesying and in the words of God. Christian worship is not less. It is to be in spirit and in truth. “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16 ). Asaph had four sons, Jeduthun six, and Heman fourteen, equal to twenty-four. They were divided into twenty-four courses of twelve men each, equal to 288, who served a week in turn. The names of six of the sons of Heman form, in the Hebrew, a complete sentence. Giddalti, Romamti-ezer, joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir and Mahazioth (verse 4) may be rendered in English:
I have magnified and I have raised up help;
Sitting in trouble, I have spoken oracles plentiful.
This fact has aroused the suspicion of the critics regarding the genuineness of this entire list of names. “Now this sentence,” saith a critic, “is either an obscure and ancient prayer which hath been mistaken for a list of names by the compiler, or else the compiler has purposely strung together those significant names in such order as to form a sentence” (W.R. Harvey-Jellic). But it is not the mistake of the compiler or an invention. We read that God gave to Heman these sons and the pious Israelite named his sons so as to produce this meaning. There are many such messages in names throughout the Bible. (See annotations on Genesis 5:0 .)