1 Chronicles 6:44

Contextual Overview

³¹These are the men David put in charge of the music in the Lord’s temple after the ark came to rest there. ³¹ These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest. ³¹ And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord , after that the ark had rest. ³¹ These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord after the ark rested there. ³¹ David chose some people to be in charge of the music in the house of the Lord . They began their work after the Ark of the Agreement was put there. ³¹ These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord 's sanctuary, after the ark was placed there. ³¹Now these are those whom David appointed over the service of song in the house of the LORD after the ark [of the covenant] rested there. ³¹ Now these are the ones whom David appointed over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after the ark rested there. ³¹ These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest. ³¹ And these be they whom Dauid set for to sing in the house of the Lord, after that the Arke had rest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ethan: 1 Chronicles 25:1, 1 Chronicles 25:3, 1 Chronicles 25:6, Jeduthun, Psalms 89:1, *title

Kishi: 1 Chronicles 15:17, Kushaiah

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:20 - General 1 Chronicles 2:6 - Ethan 2 Chronicles 29:12 - of the sons

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 44-47. And their brethren, the sons of Merari,.... Who were the brethren of the Kohathites and Gershonites, descending from the same ancestor Levi: stood

on the left hand; that is, of Heman, see 1 Chronicles 6:39, the chief of whom was Ethan, sometimes called Jeduthun, 1 Chronicles 16:41 and often in the book of Psalms; his genealogy is traced up to Levi thus; Kishi, called Kushaiah, 1 Chronicles 15:17 Abdi, Malluch, Hashabiah, Amaziah, Hilkiah, Amzi, Bani, Shamer, Mahli, Mushi, Merari, Levi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The genealogies of David’s three chief singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan or Jeduthun.

1 Chronicles 6:32

They waited on their office - On the establishment and continuance of the choral service in the temple, see 2 Chronicles 5:12, 2 Chronicles 29:27-30; 2 Chronicles 35:15.

1 Chronicles 6:33

Heman - In general Asaph takes precedence of Heman and Jeduthun, but here Heman is placed first, because his family, that of the Kohathites, had the highest priestly rank, being the family which furnished the high priests (see 1 Chronicles 6:2-15).

Shemuel - i. e. “Samuel.” Our translators have here given the Hebrew, while elsewhere they give uniformlv the Greek, form of the name. We learn by this genealogy that Heman was Samuel’s grandson.

1 Chronicles 6:39

His brother Asaph - Not “brother” in the ordinary sense of the term, since Asaph was the son of Berachiah, and a Gershonite, not a Kohathite. “Brother” here may mean “fellow-craftsman” (compare 1 Chronicles 25:7).

1 Chronicles 6:44

Ethan - Or Jeduthun (see the margin). Corruption will scarcely account for the two forms of the name, since Ethan is used persistently up to a certain point 1 Chronicles 15:19, after which we have uniformly “Jeduthun.” The case seems to be rather one in which a new name was taken after a while, which thenceforth superseded the old. Compare Abraham, Sarah, Joshua, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah, etc.