4–6 (compare verses 37, 38).
David’s Arrangements for Ministration before the Ark.
⁴And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to celebrate and to thank and praise the Lord, the God of Israel:
4. to celebrate] The literal meaning is to call to mind; compare verse 12 (remember). Compare Psalms xxxviii., lxx. (titles).
⁵Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel[¹], and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
[¹] In chapter xv. 18, Jaaziel.
5. Asaph] Compare xv. 17, note.
and Obed-edom] It is possible that the names Obed-edom, and Jeiel and Asaph (in the latter part of the verse) have been inserted by the interpolator who wrote xv. 19–21 and wished to accommodate these verses to the altered text in chapter xv.
⁶and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
6. Benaiah and Jahaziel] Two priests for the two trumpets.
Benaiah] In xxvii. 5, 6 a Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest (Revised Version) is mentioned who may possibly be identified with the Benaiah who was one of the thirty heroes (xi. 24, 25). Compare also xii. 27.