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1 Chronicles 15:22 Explained in Context
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Verse 22. 22And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Skilled singers, players, and gatekeepers receive named roles.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 15:16–24
Read 1 Chronicles 15:22 with 15:16–24. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: Levitical leaders appoint Heman, Asaph, Ethan, musicians, instructors, doorkeepers, and trumpet-playing priests for the procession.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 15:22 depends on 15:16–24; isolating “And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Skilled singers, players, and gatekeepers receive named roles.”
Read 1 Chronicles 15:16–24 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 15:16–24 forms the complete movement “Skilled singers, players, and gatekeepers receive named roles”: Levitical leaders appoint Heman, Asaph, Ethan, musicians, instructors, doorkeepers, and trumpet-playing priests for the procession.
Verse 16. 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.
Verse 17. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
Verse 18. 18 And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters.
Verse 19. 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
Verse 20. 20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
Verse 21. 21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
Verse 22. 22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
Verse 23. 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
Verse 24. 24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
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