1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Chronicles 29:30 And Ezechias, and the princes, commanded the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, and Asaph, the seer: and they praised him with great joy, and bowing the knee, adored.

Princes of the priests. (Haydock) --- Words; psalms. (Tirinus) --- Asaph, so famous for music. He had composed some psalms, (Calmet) and twelve bear his name. (Tirinus) --- But he might only have set them to music, (Haydock) or his band sung them. (Du Hamel) --- Knee. Protestants, "head." Septuagint, "they prostrated themselves."