Itinerate Musicians Who Were Sacred Music Experts-part 1

Itinerate Musicians Who Were Sacred Music Experts-part 1

Ezra 2:41 mentions “The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.”  These are identified earlier in Ezra 2:1, i.e.  “Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city…”  God had preserved 228 musicians specifically identified as singers (shiyr 7891) and brought them out of the Babylonian captivity.  Strong defines shiyr as “a primitive root identical with [shuwr] 7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy.”    

            These men were itinerate singer-players who were the descendants of the Chief  Levite musician Asaph who was recorded in 1Chronicles 25:7 as one of the  Levite musicians who was responsible for the Levite sons who were “instructed in the songs of the LORD…”.  I am bringing this to your attention because God takes care of His musicians!  Because He always has, we have reason to believe that, since He is not a respecter of persons, He will take care of Christian musicians in the twenty-first century.  I believe that one of the reasons God preserved and protected these musicians is they had a track record of instructing other musicians “in the songs of the LORD”.