1 Chronicles 25:7
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New International Version
Along with their relatives--all of them trained and skilled in music for the LORD--they numbered 288.


English Standard Version
The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288.


New American Standard Bible
Their number who were trained in singing to the LORD, with their relatives, all who were skillful, was 288.


King James Bible
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
They numbered 288 together with their relatives who were all trained and skillful in music for the LORD.


International Standard Version
They and their relatives who had been skillfully trained in singing to the LORD, numbered 288.


American Standard Version
And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in singing unto Jehovah, even all that were skilful, was two hundred fourscore and eight.


Douay-Rheims Bible
And the number of them with their brethren, that taught the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred and eighty-eight,


Darby Bible Translation
And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of Jehovah, all of them skilful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.


Young's Literal Translation
And their number, with their brethren -- taught in the song of Jehovah, all who are intelligent -- is two hundred, eighty and eight.


Commentaries
25:1-31 The singers and musicians. - David put those in order who were appointed to be singers and musicians in the temple. To prophesy, in this place, means praising God with great earnestness and devout affections, under the influences of the Holy Spirit. In raising these affections, poetry and music were employed. If the Spirit of God do not put life and fervour into our devotions, they will, however ordered, be a lifeless, worthless form.

6, 7. All these were under the hands of their father—Asaph had four sons, Jeduthun six, and Heman fourteen, equal to twenty-four; making the musicians with their brethren the singers, an amount of two hundred eighty-eight. For, like the priests and Levites, they were divided into twenty-four courses of twelve men each, equal to two hundred eighty-eight, who served a week in rotation; and these, half of whom officiated every week with a proportionate number of assistants, were skilful and experienced musicians, capable of leading and instructing the general musical corps, which comprised no less than four thousand (1Ch 23:5).
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