Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Chronicles 15:16
(16) David spake to the chief.—Ordered the chiefs (sârîm).To appoint their brethren to be the singers.—To station or assign places to their clansmen, the minstrels.Psalteries and harps.—Harps and lutes, or guitars (nĕbâlîm and kinnôrôth).Sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.—So far as grammar goes, the participle sounding (Heb., causing to hear—i.e., making a loud noise) might refer to the musicians, or to all the instruments mentioned, or to the last kind (the cymbals) only. The third... read more
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 15:1-29
The transport of the Ark to JerusalemThis chapter is parallel to 2 Samuel 6:12-23, but contains much new matter respecting the Levites who bare the ark, and the singers.1. Pitched for it a tent] According to 1 Chronicles 16:39 the Mosaic tabernacle still existed, but the ark, since its capture by the Philistines, had not rested in it, and a new tent was now substituted to contain it. 4. The children of Aaron] i.e. the priests. 13. After the due order] It is implied “that the conveyance of the... read more