1 Chronicles 25

1 Chronicles 25:1

SINGERS AND ORCHESTRA ARE ORGANIZEDIn chapter 25, we find that David organized the singers in the same way. All of this was organized before the temple was built. You will find in the marvelous sixty-eighth Psalm, a song of David, these words: “Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou has wrought for us. Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee” (Psa_68:28-29). David is anticipating the time the temple will stand in Jerusalem as a testimony to the world. Long before the temple was built, the singers were gathering in Jerusalem to worship God, and this is one of the songs they sang. You see, David had brought up the ark to Jerusalem, and it was kept in a tent. Also there was an altar there on the threshingfloor of Ornan where David, you recall, had offered sacrificesburnt sacrifices and peace offeringsunto God.

1 Chronicles 25:7

They were divided by lot into twenty-four groups. This would mean that twice each month there would be a change in the service. Each of these would serve only two weeks out of the year. Then they would go back to the city from which they had come and there was service for them to perform in their hometowns. These priests and Levites served as instructors and in many ways throughout the land of Israel. I believe all this organization was one of the greatest feats of David’s reign. It is the thing which God noted and recorded here.