Today’s reading isn’t interesting or edifying, is it? Once again, on such passages I ask why God would want this information preserved for us. Temple worship, and much of it practices that weren’t really required by the Law – what value can that have for us? The answer to that is that the man after God’s own heart will know a thing or two about worship, and so his ideas offer valuable instruction for us if we want to delight God with our worship.
That Chronicles would spend this much time on the assignments of the Temple staff, that the king himself would devote himself to these matters before construction on the Temple was even begun, reveals how important order in worship is. The detail on the music, which is never mentioned in the Law, tells me that worship was not meant, even in that day of God’s people being under the Law, to be about rules, but about joy and mutual delight.
The division of the available workers indicates what is important in worship. Note what the various assignments are, and what percentages of the workers are assignrd to each. What does that teach you about worship?
Are there other things you see in these chapters that I haven’t, that speak to you about your own worship practices?