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📚So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings 📖 before God. 2 📚And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD. 3 📚And he distributed to each one of Israel, both man and woman, to each one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of meat, and a raisin cake.4 📚And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to call to remembrance, and to thank 📖 and praise the LORD God of Israel:
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 played on lyres and on harps, and Asaph 📖 sounded the cymbals, 6 📚and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpet regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
David’s song of praise
7 📚Then on that day David first committed this psalm into the hands of Asaph and his brethren, for thanking the LORD:
16:7 Many of the Psalms were intended for worship services and were sung accompanied by music. This whole psalm appears in the book of psalms, with slight variations, but divided into three parts – Ps 105:1-15; 96:1-13; 106:1, 47, 48. See notes on those psalms.⚜
8 📚“Give thanks to the LORD.
Call on his name.
Make known his deeds
among the people.
9 📚Sing to him; sing psalms to him.
Talk of all his wondrous works.
10 📚Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those
who seek the LORD rejoice.
11 📚Seek the LORD and his strength.
Seek his face continually.
12 📚Remember his marvellous works
that he has done, his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
13 📚O you seed of Israel his servant,
you children of Jacob,
his chosen ones.
14 📚He is the LORD our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
15 📚Always remember his covenant,
the word which he commanded
to a thousand generations,
16 📚the covenant which he made
with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
17 📚For he confirmed it to Jacob as a law,
to Israel as an everlasting
covenant,
18 📚Saying, ‘To you I will give the land
of Canaan, the allotment of
your inheritance’,
19 📚When you were but few,
very few, and strangers in it;
20 📚when they went from
nation to nation,
and from one kingdom to
another people.
21 📚He allowed no man to do them wrong;
yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
22 📚Saying, ‘Do not touch my anointed,
and do my prophets no harm.’
23 📚Sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Show forth his salvation
from day to day.
24 📚Declare his glory among
the peoples,
his marvellous works among
all nations.
25 📚For great is the LORD,
and greatly to be praised.
Also he is to be feared above all gods.
26 📚For all the gods of the peoples
are idols,
but the LORD made the heavens.
27 📚Glory and honour are in
his presence;
strength and gladness are in his place.
28 📚Ascribe to the LORD,
you families of the nations,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
29 📚Ascribe to the LORD the glory due
to his name.
Bring an offering and come before him.
Worship the LORD in the beauty
of holiness.
30 📚Tremble before him, all the earth;
for the world will be stable,
so that it is not moved.
31 📚Let the heavens be glad,
and let the earth rejoice,
and let people say among
the nations, ‘The LORD reigns.’
32 📚Let the sea roar, and its fulness.
Let the fields rejoice,
and all that is in them.
33 📚Then shall the trees of the forest sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he comes to judge the earth.
34 📚O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy continues on forever.
35 📚And say, ‘Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.’
36 📚Blessed be the LORD God of Israel forever and ever”. And all the people said, “Amen”, and praised the LORD.
37 📚So he left Asaph and his brethren there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to minister before the ark regularly, as every day’s work required.
16:37 Verse 4; 2 Chron 8:14. Worship was not confined to a special day. It was part of every day life.⚜
38 📚And Obed-Edom with their brethren, sixty-eight; also Obed-Edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah to be gatekeepers; 39 📚and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
16:39 It seems that there were two sanctuaries at this time, one in Jerusalem with the ark (v 1), and the other at Gibeon with the tabernacle (1 Chron 21:29). The tabernacle remained at Gibeon until Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem.⚜
40 📚to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel; 41 📚and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were designated by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy continues on forever 📖; 42 📚and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound them, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were gatekeepers.
43 📚And each one of all the people departed to his house; and David returned to bless his house.