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Asaph and David
How Asaph and David are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Asaph served David.
David appointed Asaph chief of the Levites who ministered before the ark with song. On that day David "delivered first this psalm to thank the Lord into the hand of Asaph and his brethren".
Asaph the chief
1 Chronicles 16:5, King James Version
David delivered first this psalm to thank the Lord into the hand of Asaph and his brethren
1 Chronicles 16:7, King James Version
Where they cross: 1 Chronicles 16:4-7
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Chronicles 16:4-7
4And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to record, and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:
5Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
6Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
7Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the Lord into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
King James Version