What Does 1 Chronicles 23:5 Mean in the King James?
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Praise stands beside gatekeeping as a four-thousand-person vocation, with instruments made for that purpose.
THE MEANING
Praise takes physical shape here: people gather, voices sound, and instruments serve the act of honoring the LORD. Guarding an entrance and giving praise both belong to the community’s shared service. The sound is intentional, made for praise.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Praise is only a private feeling or an unplanned burst of words. Here it has a public place, dedicated people, and instruments crafted for it.
THE ROOT
מְהַלְלִים
mehalelim
GROWS FROM
הלל
halal
to praise, celebrate, or acclaim
“praised” in this verse is mehalelim. The verse uses the same root for the people who praise and for what David’s instruments are made to do. Praise becomes a shared practice whose sound is deliberately shaped to carry it.
ALSO GROWS
tehillah: praise; a song or expression of praise
תְּהִלָּה
This branch gives praise a named, repeatable form, fitting instruments made for its expression.
hallelujah: Praise Yah
הַלְלוּיָהּ
This familiar word keeps praise directed toward the LORD, as it is in this verse.
THE PATTERN
Praise becomes shared practice through dedicated people, crafted sound, and voices joined together.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;THE THREAD
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.Psalm 150 uses the same Hebrew root, הלל (halal), for praise and places it alongside instruments, just as this verse does. Together they show praise taking audible, crafted form.
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