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Rh And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the, after that the ark had rest. And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order. And these are they that waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel; the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah; the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai; the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah; the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah; the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. And his brother Asaph, who stood

31. the ark had rest] i.e. was brought into the city of David for a permanent resting-place, cp. Ps. cxxxii. 8, 14.

33. they waited order] a phrase characteristic of the Chronicler. For waited render rather, as mg., stood (cp. Ps. cxxxv. 2): i.e. Heman the leader stood in the central position, Asaph on his right hand (ver. 39) and Ethan on his left (ver. 44).

33—38.&emsp;

33. Heman] the guild of Heman, as the present pedigree indicates, is reckoned (with what measure of historical ground is uncertain) to be of Levitical descent and of the Kohathite family: see also Korah below, ver. 37.

37. Korah] the sons of Korah figure in the titles of various Psalms (e.g. Pss. 44—49, 84, 85) and probably represent an earlier stage in the development of choral worship of the Temple. With this Korahite guild the guild of Heman evidently was associated, though whether by a process of development or of amalgamation it is impossible to say. It is noteworthy that other references to Korah (cp. Gen. xxxvi. 5; 1 Chr. ii. 43) indicate that the clan was originally of Edomite (Calebite) blood.

38. Izhar] see note on Amminadab, ver. 22.