Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 24-26.

Today provides another example of why writing this blog helps me study the Bible.  As I was reading today’s passage with its list of priests and Levites who were assigned different roles and who was the son of who looking for something to write about I came across the mention of Asaph.  First, I thought I was reading a genealogy of Levites and how they were assigned roles in temple administration, Asaph is brought up without any mention of how he descended from Levi.  This lead me to realize that I had misunderstood the previous list of Levi’s descendants.  Once I was thinking about Asaph and the appointment of some men for the ministry of prophesying, I found it interesting that the commanders of David’s army played a role in choosing those men.  Another thing which I saw was the connection between the ministry of prophesying and music which was made here.  It strikes me that perhaps we today put too little thought into what sort of connection there is between prophesying and music.  Finally, I realized that the Asaph mentioned here is the same as the Asaph credited with the psalms of Asaph we have in the Book of Psalms.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.