1 Chronicles 15:16
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Chronicles 15:16 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Chronicles 15:16 is a verse from the book of 1 Chronicles in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psal..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Chronicles 15:16 — KJV
“And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.”
— 1 Chronicles 15:16 (KJV)
1 Chronicles 15:16 in Context — About the Book of 1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles retells David's story for a generation returning from exile, anchoring their identity in genealogy, worship, and covenant. Its highlights are musical and devotional: David appoints singers, organizes temple worship, and prays one of Scripture's greatest thanksgiving prayers — including the famous prayer of Jabez.
Cross-References for 1 Chronicles 15:16
“Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)”
Shares key themes with 1 Chronicles 15:16: levites, brethren, singers
“And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.”
Shares key themes with 1 Chronicles 15:16: david, instruments, psalteries
“It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;”
Shares key themes with 1 Chronicles 15:16: singers, instruments, musick
“And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets. commandment of the LORD: Heb. commandment by the hand of the LORD by: Heb. by the hand of”
Shares key themes with 1 Chronicles 15:16: david, levites, psalteries
“Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; with psalteries...: Heb. with instruments of psalteries and harps”
Shares key themes with 1 Chronicles 15:16: chief, instruments, psalteries
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