TSK · 1 Chronicles 23:5

Professional Musicians These are the men David put in charge of music in the LORD’s sanctuary, after the ark was placed there.

The gatekeepers were:Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers. Shallum was the leader;

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully.

including Obed-Edom and sixty-eight colleagues. Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were gatekeepers.

They also stood in a designated place every morning and offered thanks and praise to the LORD. They also did this in the evening

Divisions of Gatekeepers The divisions of the gatekeepers:From the Korahites: Meshelemiah, son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.

Then some Levites, from the Kohathites and Korahites, got up and loudly praised the LORD God of Israel.

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the LORD’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered.(The LORD had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

In the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, Ezra brought up to Jerusalem some of the Israelites and some of the priests, the Levites, the attendants, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

As for the singers, as well as the pipers– all of them sing within your walls.

They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.