1 Chronicles 25:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

To lift up the horn - Some take this literally, and consider that Heman and his sons played on the born in the musical services; but there is no other evidence that the horn was so employed. Perhaps the most probable explanation is that it has been transferred from the next clause, where (as here) it followed the word “God,” with the sense that “God, to exalt Heman’s horn (or, increase his dignity), gave him fourteen sons and three daughters.”

1 Chronicles 25:5

5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the wordsd of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.