1 Chronicles 9:28-38

28 Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out.
29 Others of them were appointed over the furniture and over all the holy utensils, also over the 1fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.
30 Others, of the sons of the priests, 2prepared the mixing of the spices,
31 and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of 3Shallum the 4Korahite, was entrusted with 5making the flat cakes.
32 Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had 6charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
33 Now these, the 7singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.
34 These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.

Saul's Genealogy Repeated

35 8In Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and the name of his wife was Maacah,
36 and his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth;
38 and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.

1 Chronicles 9:28-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 9

The genealogies of the several tribes being given, according as they were written in the books of the kings of Israel, 1Ch 9:1, an account follows of those who first settled in Jerusalem after their return from the Babylonish captivity; of the Israelites, 1Ch 9:2-9, of the priests, 1Ch 9:10-13 of the Levites, and of the charge and offices of several of the priests and Levites, 1Ch 9:14-34, and the chapter is concluded with a repetition of the genealogy of the ancestors and posterity of Saul king of Israel, 1Ch 9:35-44.

Cross References 8

  • 1. 1 Chronicles 23:29; Leviticus 6:20, 21
  • 2. See Exodus 30:23-25
  • 3. ver. 19
  • 4. [See ver. 19 above]
  • 5. 1 Chronicles 23:29
  • 6. See Leviticus 24:5-8
  • 7. 1 Chronicles 6:31; 1 Chronicles 25:1
  • 8. For ver. 35-38, see 1 Chronicles 8:29-32
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