Discovery Box1 Chronicles 9:25-36
Context9:25 Their relatives, who lived in their settlements, came from time to time and served with them for seven-day periods. 9:26 The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary. 1 9:27 They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, 2 for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning. 9:28 Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out. 3 9:29 Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, 4 as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices. 9:30 (But some of the priests mixed the spices.) 9:31 Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son 5 of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings. 9:32 Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath.
9:33 The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary 6 and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks. 9:34 These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.
9:35 Jeiel (the father of Gibeon) lived in Gibeon. His wife was Maacah. 9:36 His firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
[9:26] 1 tn Heb “in the house of God.”
[9:27] 1 tn Heb “in the house of God.”
[9:28] 1 tn Heb “and from them over the articles of the task, for by number they would bring them in, and by number they would bring them out.”
[9:31] 1 tn The word “son” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.
[9:33] 1 tn Heb “were in rooms.” The words “at the sanctuary” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
