1 Chronicles 23:5
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New International Version (©2011)
Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Another 4,000 will work as gatekeepers, and 4,000 will praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have made."

English Standard Version (©2001)
4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 were praising the LORD with the instruments which David made for giving praise.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments that I have made for worship."

International Standard Version (©2012)
with 4,000 gatekeepers, and with 4,000 offering praises to the LORD with the musical instruments that I have had crafted."

NET Bible (©2006)
4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I supplied for worship."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
4,000 were appointed to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 were appointed to praise the LORD with the instruments David had made for praising God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Moreover four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, for praise.

American King James Version
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

American Standard Version
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made,'said David , to praise therewith.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.

Darby Bible Translation
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

English Revised Version
and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise with them.

World English Bible
four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."

Young's Literal Translation
and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, 'with instruments that I made for praising,' saith David.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - Porters (Hebrew שֹׁעְרִים); doorkeepers. The word is so translated in 1 Chronicles 15:23, 24. It was the duty of these to keep the entrances of the sanctuary, by day and night, in their courses (see also 2 Kings 7:10, 11). The Chaldaic equivalent of this word is תָּרָע (Ezra 7:24; Daniel 2:49). There is no connection between either the word or idea we have here, and those of Psalm 84:11, where the Hithp. conjugation of סָפפ is used, and the sense of residence probably intended to be conveyed. The instruments which I made... to praise. Possibly the quotation of a short sentence often on David's lips. Men given to music may have been very conscious of it, in ancient days, as well as in modern. The language, however, does not necessarily assert that David claimed the inventing or in any similar sense the making of these musical instruments, but that he appointed them for the service of praise. What some of them were may be seen in 2 Chronicles 5:12 - "cymbals, psalteries, harps, trumpets" (see also 2 Chronicles 29:25-27; Nehemiah 12:35, 36; Amos 6:5).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Moreover four thousand were porters,.... At the east, north, and south gates of the temple, in their turns:

and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments; were singers in the temple, which in all made up 38,000:

which I made, said David, to praise therewith; which instruments he devised and ordered to be made to praise the Lord with; see 2 Chronicles 29:26.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. praised the Lord with the instruments which I made—David seems to have been an inventor of many of the musical instruments used in the temple (Am 6:5).

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Divisions of the Levites
3Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. 4Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

2 Kings 7:10 So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, "We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there--not a sound of anyone--only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were."
1 Chronicles 15:16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
1 Chronicles 25:7 Along with their relatives--all of them trained and skilled in music for the LORD--they numbered 288.
2 Chronicles 29:26 So the Levites stood ready with David's instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.
Amos 6:5 You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.