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1 Chronicles 15:18-20
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Chronicles 15:18-20
Evangelical Heritage Version
18 Their brother Levites assigned to serve with them on the second level were Zechariah,[a] Ja’aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Ma’aseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed Edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.[b]
19 Also appointed were the singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, to sound the bronze cymbals,
20 Zechariah, Aziel,[c] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Ma’aseiah, and Benaiah, to play the harps according to alamoth,
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 Many Hebrew manuscripts have the word ben (son of) between Zechariah and Ja’aziel. If this reading is followed, the text originally read Zechariah, son of Ja’aziel, or the text includes the name of another Levite and reads Zechariah, Ben, Ja’aziel. The reading followed in the translation, which treats ben as an accidental addition, is supported by some Hebrew manuscripts and the Greek text.
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 Because of the overlap of the groups and the irregular use of and in the Hebrew, it is uncertain how the groups in verses 18-21 are arranged and how they relate to each other.
- 1 Chronicles 15:20 Very likely a variant of Ja’aziel in verse 18
1 Chronicles 15:18-20
New International Version
1 Chronicles 15:18-20
New International Version
18 and with them their relatives next in rank: Zechariah,[a] Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom(A) and Jeiel,[b] the gatekeepers.
19 The musicians Heman,(B) Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals; 20 Zechariah, Jaaziel,[c] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth,[d]
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 Three Hebrew manuscripts and most Septuagint manuscripts (see also verse 20 and 16:5); most Hebrew manuscripts Zechariah son and or Zechariah, Ben and
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also verse 21) Jeiel and Azaziah
- 1 Chronicles 15:20 See verse 18; Hebrew Aziel, a variant of Jaaziel.
- 1 Chronicles 15:20 Probably a musical term
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