1 Chronicles 16:5,6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The names of the persons appointed — ten Levites and two priests — all of whom but one, Jahaziel, were in the procession described in 1 Chronicles 15:19-21.

Asaph the chief, and next to him (his second) Zechariah. — See 1 Chronicles 15:18.

Jeiel. — A scribe’s error for “Jaaziel” (1 Chronicles 15:18).

With psalteries and with harps.With instruments of harps and lutes (appositive or defining genitive).

But Asaph made a sound with cymbals. — Literally, and Asaph with cymbals clanging.

1 Chronicles 16:5-6

5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteriesa and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.