These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Chronicles 15
Tanakh 29 verses
- 1 And [] made him houses in the city of ; and he prepared a place for the of , and pitched for it a tent.
- 2 Then said: ‘None ought to carry the of but the Levites; for them hath chosen to carry the of , and to minister unto Him for ever.’
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And assembled all at , to bring up the of unto its place, which he had prepared for it.
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And gathered together the sons of , and the Levites;
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of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty;
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of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
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of the sons of Gershom: the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty;
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of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;
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- 9 of the sons of : Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore;
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of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twelve.
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- 11 And called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and , Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
- 12 and said unto them: ‘Ye are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the of , the of , unto the place that I have prepared for it.
- 13 For because ye [bore it] not at the first, our made a breach upon us, for that we sought Him not according to the .’
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So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the of , the of .
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And the children of the Levites bore the of upon their shoulders with the bars thereon, as commanded according to the of .
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And spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
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1 Chronicles 13:8 Nehemiah 12:36 2 Chronicles 5:13 1 Chronicles 16:42 1 Chronicles 23:5 Psalm 150:3-4 2 Timothy 2:2 Psalm 92:1-3 1 Chronicles 15:12 Isaiah 49:23 Jeremiah 33:11 Psalm 149:3 Ezra 7:24-28 1 Chronicles 6:31-38 2 Chronicles 30:12 Acts 14:23 1 Chronicles 15:27-28 Nehemiah 12:46 Psalm 100:1 Psalm 95:1 Ezra 3:10-11 Titus 1:5 1 Chronicles 25:1-6 Psalm 87:7 1 Timothy 3:1-15 2 Chronicles 29:28-30 Nehemiah 12:43 Psalm 81:1 - 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of ; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 18 and with them their brethren of the second degree, , Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphalehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
- 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan [, were appointed], with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
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and , and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;
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- 21 and Mattithiah, and Eliphalehu, and Mikneiahu, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith, to lead.
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And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song; he was master in the song, because he was skilful.
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And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the .
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- 24 And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and , and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the of ; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the .
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So , and the elders of , and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the of the of out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.
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- 26 And it came to pass, when helped the Levites that bore the of the of , that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams.
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And was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the , and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the singers in the song; and had upon him an ephod of linen.
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- 28 Thus all brought up the of the of with shouting, and with sound of the horn, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.
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And it came to pass, as the of the of came to the city of , that Michal the daughter of looked out at the window, and saw dancing and making merry; and she despised him in her .
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2 Samuel 6:16 Psalm 30:11 2 Corinthians 5:13 Psalm 149:3 Ecclesiastes 3:4 1 Samuel 4:3 Psalm 150:4 1 Samuel 19:11-17 2 Samuel 3:13-14 1 Chronicles 17:1 Jeremiah 3:16 Jeremiah 33:11 Psalm 69:7-9 Judges 20:27 1 Samuel 25:44 Hebrews 9:4 Joshua 4:7 2 Samuel 6:20-23 Exodus 15:20 1 Samuel 18:27-28 1 Corinthians 2:14 Jeremiah 30:19 Deuteronomy 31:26 Acts 2:13 Numbers 10:33