Paul Kretzmann Commentary - 1 Chronicles 16:1 - 16:6

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - 1 Chronicles 16:1 - 16:6


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The offerings and Gifts

v. 1. So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt sacrifices and peace-offerings before God, both in atonement for sin and in establishing the right relation between themselves and the covenant God.

v. 2. And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord,
commending their zeal and asking the richest blessings of Jehovah upon them.

v. 3. And he dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh, a measure of wine, and a flagon of wine,
rather, a cake of pressed grapes.

v. 4. And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord,
thereby instituting divine service in Jerusalem, and to record, literally, "to bring to remembrance," to pray at the meat-offering, Lev_2:2, and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:

v. 5. Asaph, the chief,
the man in charge of the first company of musicians, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom; and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps, these being the members of the second company of Tabernacle musicians; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

v. 6. Benaiah also and Jahaziel, the priests, with trumpets continually before the Ark of the Covenant of God,
to announce certain festivals and seasons, as well as the divisions of the psalms in the liturgical part of the Temple worship. An elaborate liturgy may well be reconciled with true piety of heart.