📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 9:33
What does 1 Chronicles 9:33 mean?
"These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night."
— 1 Chronicles 9:33 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with
his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
Explanation
This verse comes from a lengthy genealogical record in 1 Chronicles 9, which lists the families who resettled Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. The Chronicler, writing to a community rebuilding its identity and its worship life, wanted to show that the same order and structure God had
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