And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord God of Israel: Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals; vv.4-5
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Do you ever read the psalms and either skip over the post script (the tiny title words before verse one) or at least are confused at the words? Twelve psalms are written by this man we read of here: Asaph (Ps. 73-83). Asaph is the chief musician as we see here as well as attached to his name in the prescripts of his psalms. The prescripts often also have a note of instruments to use for the psalm, which again we read here of two of these Levites playing instruments we see mentioned often in the psalms: string instruments, harps and cymbals. I've always been jealous of people that can play an instrument, let alone multiple instruments like mentioned of this man Jeiel.
Also to note about this chapter that it is 43 verses long yet in comparison with the account in 2 Samuel 6 there is only two verses on this account (vv.19-20). Interesting what God chooses to focus on in His account to record through the Chronicles than what man chooses to record of the account in the Samuels. Why do you think that is in this particular case? What is a time in your life that you look at more in depth that the majority of people would simply pass over in thought?
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