1 Chronicles 23:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. Four thousand praised the Lord - David made this distribution according to his own judgment, and from the dictates of his piety; but it does not appear that he had any positive Divine authority for such arrangements. As to the instruments of music which he made they are condemned elsewhere; see Amos 6:5, to which this verse is allowed to be the parallel.

1 Chronicles 23:5

5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.