God’s Word Translation
2 Chronicles 29:26
26The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests had the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 29:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- New International Version (NIV)So the Levites stood ready with David’s instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
Context of 2 Chronicles 29:26
24The priests slaughtered the goats and made their blood an offering for sin at the altar to make peace with the Lord for Israel. The king had said that the burnt offerings and offerings for sin should be for all Israel. 25He had the Levites stand in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres as David, the king’s seer Gad, and the prophet Nathan had ordered. This command came from the Lord through his prophets. The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests had the trumpets. 27Then Hezekiah ordered the sacrificing of burnt offerings on the altar. When the burnt offerings started, the songs to the Lord started. These songs were accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of King David of Israel. 28The whole assembly bowed down with their faces touching the ground, singers began to sing, and the trumpets blew until the burnt offering was finished.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 292 Chronicles 29:26 word by word
וַיַּֽעַמְד֤וּ הַלְוִיִּם֙ בִּכְלֵ֣י דָוִ֔יד וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 29:26
- 1 Chronicles 23:54,000 were appointed to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 were appointed to praise the Lord with the instruments David had made for praising God.
- Psalms 87:7Singers and dancers will sing, “Zion is the source of all our blessings.”
- Psalms 150:3Praise him with sounds from horns. Praise him with harps and lyres.
- Isaiah 38:20The Lord is going to rescue me, so let us play stringed instruments. We live our lives in the Lord’s temple.
- Amos 6:5How horrible it will be for those who make up songs as they strum a harp. Like David, they write all kinds of songs for themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, and their relatives—were dressed in fine linen and stood east of the altar with cymbals, harps, and lyres. With the musicians were 120 priests blowing trumpets. When the priests left the holy place,
- Numbers 10:8The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow the trumpets. This will be a permanent law for you and your descendants.
- Joshua 6:4Seven priests will carry rams’ horns ahead of the ark. But on the seventh day you must march around the city seven times while the priests blow their horns.
- 1 Chronicles 15:24The priests Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer blew trumpets in front of God’s ark. Obed Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 16:6The priests Benaiah and Jahaziel played trumpets all the time in front of the ark of God’s promise.
- Psalms 81:3Blow the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, on the day of the full moon, on our festival days.
- Psalms 98:5Make music to the Lord with a lyre, with a lyre and the melody of a psalm,
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 29:26
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-36Verses 20-36 As soon as Hezekiah heard that the temple was ready, he lost no time. Atonement must be made for the sins of the last reign. It was not enough to lament and forsake those sins; they brought a sin-offering. Our repentance and reformation will not obtain pardon but in and through Christ, who was made sin, that is, a sin-offering for us. While the offerings were on the altar, the Levites sang. Sorrow for sin must not prevent us from praising…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-36To start sanctifying the temple, the Levites first sanctified themselves. They likely purified themselves by bringing offerings (see 2 Chronicles 30:15). Then they began to cleanse the temple. Two steps were needed to restore the temple: Purification (removing pollution, 2 Chronicles 29:15–17) Sanctification (rededicating the temple for holy worship, 2 Chronicles 29:20–36)Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 20-3020-30. Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city--His anxiety to enter upon the expiatory service with all possible despatch, now that the temple had been properly prepared for it, prevented his summoning all the representatives of Israel. The requisite number of victims having been provided, and the officers of the temple having sanctified themselves according to the directions of the law, the priests were appointed to offer…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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