Quotes about Singers

So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.

From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.

The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.

in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.

So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.

For there was a command from the king concerning the singers, an ordinance regulating their daily activities.

The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,

They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, as David and his son Solomon had prescribed.

For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there were directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.

and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.