And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen, &c.] He had seven sons, ( 1 Chronicles 26:1-3 ) and therefore must have eleven brethren or kinsmen.
7
The sons of Samai; Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, and Elzabath, and Achiud, mighty men, Heliu, and Sabachia, and Isbacom.
8
All of the sons of Abdedom, they and their sons and their brethren, doing mightily in service: in all sixty-two to Abdedom.
9
And Mosellemia eighteen sons and brethren, mighty men.
10
And to Osa of the sons of Merari sons, keeping the dominion; though he was not the first-born, yet his father made him chief of the second division.
11
Chelcias the second, Tablai the third, Zacharias the fourth: all these the sons and brethren of Osa, thirteen.
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