4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise."
Cross References
2 Kings 7:10So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, "We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there--not a trace--only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact."
1 Chronicles 15:16David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments--harps, lyres, and cymbals.
1 Chronicles 25:7Together with their relatives, who were all trained and skillful in the songs of the LORD, they numbered 288.
2 Chronicles 29:26The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
Treasury of Scripture
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
porters
1 Chronicles 9:17-27
And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; …
1 Chronicles 15:23,24
And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark…
1 Chronicles 16:38
And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
praised
1 Chronicles 6:31-48
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest…
1 Chronicles 9:33
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
1 Chronicles 15:16-22
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…
the instruments
1 Kings 10:12
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
2 Chronicles 29:25,26
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…
Amos 6:5
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
