📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 26:9
What does 1 Chronicles 26:9 mean?
"Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen."
— 1 Chronicles 26:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.
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