1 Chronicles 15:19
New International Version
The musicians Heman, Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;

New Living Translation
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were chosen to sound the bronze cymbals.

English Standard Version
The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals;

Berean Standard Bible
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.

King James Bible
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

New King James Version
the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound the cymbals of bronze;

New American Standard Bible
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;

NASB 1995
So the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;

NASB 1977
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;

Legacy Standard Bible
So the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;

Amplified Bible
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud the bronze cymbals;

Christian Standard Bible
The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;

American Standard Version
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
These all who were standing at the gates and singing: Haman, and Asaph and Ethan.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the singers, Aeman, Asaph, and Aethan, with brazen cymbals to make a sound to be heard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, sounded with cymbals of brass.

English Revised Version
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed, with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to play bronze cymbals.

International Standard Version
The singers included Heman, Asaph, and Ethan (who played bronze cymbals).

JPS Tanakh 1917
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan [, were appointed], with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;

Literal Standard Version
and the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [are] to sound with cymbals of bronze;

Majority Standard Bible
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.

New American Bible
The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, sounded brass cymbals.

NET Bible
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;

New Revised Standard Version
The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound bronze cymbals;

New Heart English Bible
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;

Webster's Bible Translation
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

World English Bible
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;

Young's Literal Translation
and the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to sound,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Priests and Levites Carry the Ark
18and with them their brothers next in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel. 19The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals. 20Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to Alamoth.…

Cross References
1 Kings 4:31
He was wiser than all men--wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.

1 Chronicles 15:18
and with them their brothers next in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.

1 Chronicles 15:20
Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to Alamoth.

1 Chronicles 25:6
All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.


Treasury of Scripture

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

1 Chronicles 15:16
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.

1 Chronicles 13:8
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

1 Chronicles 16:5,42
Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; …

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1 Chronicles 15
1. David having prepared a place for the ark,
15. the priests and Levites bring it from Obed-Edom
25. He performs the solemnity thereof with great joy
29. Michal despises him














(19-21) The minstrels named in 1Chronicles 15:17-18, classified according to their instruments.

(19) The cymbal-players.

Were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass.--Rather, with cymbals of bronze for clashing. Furnished with these instruments, the three chiefs were to lead and accentuate the music.

1Chronicles 15:19-25 give the order of the procession thus:--

I. The three master-singers, and two bands of seven each (1Chronicles 15:19-21).

II. Chenaniah, marshal of the bearers.

III. Two warders of the Ark. . . .

Verses 19-21. - The psalteries on Alamoth (ver. 20), and harps on the Sheminith to excel (ver. 21), are descriptions the exact significance of which is not yet satisfactorily ascertained. Yet their connection in a series of four divisions of musical duty does throw some light upon them. These four verses manifestly purport to describe a special part to be performed by those of whom they respectively speak. Gesenius explains psalteries on Alamoth to mean such instruments as savoured of virgin tone or pitch, i.e. high as compared with the lower pitch of men's voices. This lower pitch he considers intimated by the word "Sheminith," literally, the eighth, or octave. The added expression, "to excel," need scarcely be, with him, understood to mean "to take the lead musically," but may be read generally to mark their supassing quality.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The musicians
וְהַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים (wə·ham·šō·rə·rîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7891: To sing

Heman,
הֵימָ֥ן (hê·mān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1968: Heman -- an Israelite name

Asaph,
אָסָ֖ף (’ā·sāp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 623: Asaph -- 'gatherer', the name of several Israelites

and Ethan
וְאֵיתָ֑ן (wə·’ê·ṯān)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 387: Ethan -- 'permanence', an Israelite name

were to sound
לְהַשְׁמִֽיעַ׃ (lə·haš·mî·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

the bronze
נְחֹ֖שֶׁת (nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

cymbals;
בִּמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם (bim·ṣil·ta·yim)
Preposition-b | Noun - cd
Strong's 4700: Double tinklers, cymbals


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