Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 29:30

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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The king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words (psalms) of David and of Asaph; and they sang praise with joy, and bowed themselves and worshipped. This verse does not mean that the Levites began to sing psalms at the king's command only after the sacrificial act and the instrumental music ( Ch2 29:27.) had been finished, but it forms a comprehensive conclusion of the description of the sacrificial solemnities. The author of the Chronicle considered it necessary to make express mention of the praising of God in psalms, already implicite involved in the משׁורר השּׁיר, Ch2 29:28, and to remark that the Levites also, at the conclusion of the song of praise, knelt and worshipped. Asaph is here called חזה, as Jeduthun (Ethan) is in Ch2 35:15, and Heman, Ch1 25:5. 2 Chronicles 29:31

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