1 Chronicles 25:5

For the expression, the king's seer , and as other instances of the office, see 1 Chronicles 21:9 ; 2 Chronicles 35:15 , in neither of which places, however, have we the attendant phrase, in the words of God . Yet we have the same sense strictly implied in 1 Chronicles 21:9 , 1 Chronicles 21:19 . The expression needs not to be generalized into "in the matters of God," but evidently describes the seer (Heman, Gad, or Jeduthun) as the authorized medium of verbal communication between God and the king. There is difficulty in assigning the right place of the clause, to lift up the horn . There can be no doubt at all that it contains no allusion whatever to the horn as an instrument of sound (the almost solitary approach to which use of the word is found in Joshua 6:5 ), but that it falls in with the very frequent figurative use of the phrase as it occurs in the very same words ( Psalms 75:5 , Psalms 75:6 ; Psalms 89:18 , Psalms 89:25 ; Psalms 92:12 ; Psalms 112:9 ; 1 Samuel 2:1 , 1 Samuel 2:10 , etc.), and which means "to add to the strength" or "honour" of any one. The allusion is to the number of Heman's children being a mark of the honour God set on him. The words cannot go with the latter part of the verse, while the conjunction ( vau ) in וַיִּתֵּן opens it. The possible order may be, All these sons were to Heman, the king's seer, by the words of God, to lift up the horn . The absence of the third personal pronoun suffix to קֶרֶן is noticeable, place the clause where we will The statement of the fourteen sons and three daughters belonging to Heman, in this verse, shows that up to this point the word "sons" is used in its stricter sense, however true it may be that the sense is amplified in 1 Chronicles 21:10 -31.