JEDUTHUN
(Hebrew, “commendator”).
Proper name of a Levite of the sons of Merari, director of the music of the tabernacle in the time of David, with Heman the Kohatite and Asaph the Gershonite (1 Chron. 23:6).
His primary charge was to “lift up the voice with brass cymbals” (1 Chron. 23:19). “The sons of Jeduthun prophesied with the harp” (1 Chron. 25:3, 9), and served as music directors at the dedication of the Temple (2 Chron. 5:12),
In the purification of the Temple done by Hezekiah (2 Chron. 29:14), in the Passover celebrated by Josiah (2 Chron. 35:15) and after the captivity (Neh. 11:17). The name of one of them appears in the title of Ps. 3