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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 Divine Institution of Sacred Song The people of Israel could not worship the LORD as they pleased but only with the rituals ordained by him. That is the first and perhaps most fixed principle of worship in Chronicles. Through Moses the LORD had commanded that Israel implement his statutes and ordinances for them (1 Chron. 22:12–13).1 Among these were the statutes by which he instituted and regulated their worship. Such statutes prescribed when, where and how the Israelites were to ‘seek’ him.
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