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1 Chronicles 25:5

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

All these [were] the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

1 Chronicles 25:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Chronicles 25:5

Theological / Devotional

Heman the king’s seer. Among David’s seers were Gad (1 Chron. 21:9), Jeduthun (2 Chron. 35:15), and Asaph (2 Chron. 29:30).

To lift up the horn. A well-known Hebrew metaphor meaning to exalt a person or to increase his power (see 1 Sam. 2:10; Ps. 89:17 ; 92:10). Thus the meaning here would seem to be that the Lord had exalted Heman by giving him 14 sons and 3 daughters.

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