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The Lord’s Song: The Basis, Function and Significance of Choral Music in Chronicles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why do the books of Chronicles regard the performance of choral music as an integral part of the sacrificial ritual at the temple, despite the lack of sanction for it in the Pentateuch? And why do they stress that it must be synchronized with the presentation of the regular public burnt offering at the temple? These and other questions are answered in this challenging new volume. After an...

LORD’s instructions; they came to him through the prophets Gad and Nathan. This authorization of sacred song through two prophets gave the decree added significance and weight; it was, in fact, the only aspect of the ritual at the temple which had been ordained through the prophets. They not only authorized choral music but also prescribed the location of the musicians in the temple, the instruments for it, and its performance by the Levites during the presentation of the burnt offering. The choral
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