1 Chronicles 9:1-34

Holman Christian Standard Bible

After the Exile

9 All Israel was registered in the genealogies that are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled^(A) to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness. ²The first^(B) to live in their towns on their own property again were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.^(C)

³These people from the descendants of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh settled in Jerusalem:
⁴Uthai son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, a descendant^[a] of Perez son of Judah;
⁵from the Shilonites:
Asaiah the firstborn and his sons;
⁶and from the sons of Zerah:
Jeuel and 690 of their relatives.

⁷The Benjaminites: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah;
⁸Ibneiah son of Jeroham;
Elah son of Uzzi, son of Michri;
Meshullam son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;
⁹and 956^(D) of their relatives according to their genealogical records. All these men were heads of their ancestral houses.

¹⁰The priests:^(E) Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jachin;
¹¹Azariah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief official^(F) of God’s temple;
¹²Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah;
Maasai son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer;
¹³and 1,760 of their relatives, the heads of households. They were capable men employed in the ministry of God’s temple.

¹⁴The Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah of the Merarites;
¹⁵Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah, son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph;
¹⁶Obadiah son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun;
and Berechiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

¹⁷The gatekeepers:^(G) Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.
Shallum was their chief; ¹⁸he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side.^(H) These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.
¹⁹Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his relatives from his ancestral household, the Korahites, were assigned to guard the thresholds of the tent.^[b] Their ancestors had been assigned to the Lord’s camp as guardians of the entrance.^(I) ²⁰In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader, and the Lord was with him.^(J) ²¹Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.^(K)

²²The total number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them^(L) to their trusted positions. ²³So they and their sons were assigned to the gates of the Lord’s temple, which had been the tent-temple. ²⁴The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south. ²⁵Their relatives came from their villages^(M) at fixed times to be with them seven days,^(N) ²⁶but the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of God’s temple.^(O) ²⁷They spent the night in the vicinity of God’s temple, because they had guard duty and were in charge of opening it every morning.^(P)

²⁸Some of them were in charge of the utensils used in worship. They would count them when they brought them in and when they took them out. ²⁹Others were put in charge of the furnishings and all the utensils of the sanctuary,^(Q) as well as the fine flour,^(R) wine, oil, incense, and spices. ³⁰Some of the priests’ sons mixed the spices.^(S) ³¹A Levite called Mattithiah, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.^[c] ³²Some of the Kohathites’ relatives were responsible for preparing the rows of the bread of the Presence^(T) every Sabbath.

³³The singers,^(U) the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.^(V) ³⁴These^(W) were the heads of the Levite families, chiefs according to their genealogies, and lived in Jerusalem.

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