1 Chronicles 6:31-32

Professional Musicians

6:31 These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, 1  after the ark was placed there. 6:32 They performed music 2  before the sanctuary 3  of the meeting tent until Solomon built the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem. 4  They carried out their tasks according to regulations.

1 Chronicles 25:7

25:7 They and their relatives, all of them skilled and trained to make music to the Lord, numbered two hundred eighty-eight. 5 

1 tn Heb “house.”

2 tn Heb “they were serving…with music.”

3 tn Or traditionally “tabernacle.”

4 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

5 tn Heb “and their number with their brothers, trained in music to the Lord, all skilled, was 288.”