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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...

The Levites were given two discrete and yet complementary tasks by David in 1 Chron. 15:2: the transportation of the ark, and ministry to the LORD. On the face of it, the mention of ministry to the LORD seems out of place in a discussion on the correct way to move the ark to Jerusalem. The phrase could hardly have come in here by accident with the first part of Deut. 10:8, since the Chronicler deliberately excludes what he considers irrelevant—for example, the duty ‘to bless in his name’, which,
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