Holy Scripture
1 Chronicles 9:16
A church father on this verse
“There is abundant information in the books of Chronicles which were written to continue the books of the Kings and to preserve the memory of such important events. The first book begins with a genealogy that sets out to demonstrate how the human race came from a single man. Since it focuses only on the single kingdom…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16and Obadiah, son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah—who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
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14And of the Levites; Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari.
15And Bakbakkar, and Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph;
— 1 Chronicles 9:16 —
17The doorkeepers; Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief;
18and he waited hitherto in the king’s gate eastward: these are the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.