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1 Chronicles 16:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Levites record, thank, and praise before the ark.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 16:4–6
Read 1 Chronicles 16:6 with 16:4–6. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: David appoints named Levites with instruments and priests with trumpets for continual ministry before the ark.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 16:6 depends on 16:4–6; isolating “Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Levites record, thank, and praise before the ark.”
Read 1 Chronicles 16:4–6 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 16:4–6 forms the complete movement “Levites record, thank, and praise before the ark”: David appoints named Levites with instruments and priests with trumpets for continual ministry before the ark.
Verse 4. 4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:
Verse 5. 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
Verse 6. 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 16:4–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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