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• HosahPeople

  Hosah was a Levite of the Merarite clan in the time of David. According to 1 Chronicles, he was appointed a gatekeeper before the Ark of the Covenant and was assigned by lot to the west gate of the temple.

• HemanPeople

  Heman is an Old Testament figure who appears in 1 and 2 Chronicles as a Levite worship leader in charge of temple music in the time of David. The same name also appears in the title of Psalm 88 and in 1 Kings 4.

• Jeiel (Father of Gibeon)People

  Jeiel is a Benjamite recorded in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles as "the father of Gibeon." He is an ancestor of the family that descends through Ner and Kish to King Saul. Several other people with the same name appear in the Bible.

• ChelubaiPeople

  Chelubai is an Old Testament figure named in 1 Chronicles 2:9 as a son of Hezron of the tribe of Judah. He was a brother of Jerahmeel and Ram and is commonly identified with "Caleb the son of Hezron" in verses 18 and following of the same chapter.

• ChenaniahPeople

  Chenaniah was a chief of the Levites who directed and taught the singing when David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. He appears in 1 Chronicles 15.

• MeshelemiahPeople

  Meshelemiah was a Levitical temple gatekeeper of the Korahite line in the time of David, the son of Kore and the father of Zechariah. He appears in 1 Chronicles 26, where verse 14 records his name as "Shelemiah."

• SheerahPeople

  Sheerah is a woman named in the genealogy of Ephraim in 1 Chronicles 7. She is recorded as the builder of Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah, and she appears in only this one verse of the Bible.

• JobabPeople

  Jobab is a figure in the list of Edomite kings in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1. The son of Zerah of Bozrah, he succeeded Bela as the second king of Edom.

• PedaiahPeople

  Pedaiah was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), king of Judah, and appears in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 3. First Chronicles 3:19 records him as the father of Zerubbabel. Other passages name Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel, and this discrepancy has been the subject of discussion.

• MeredPeople

  Mered is a man named in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4, where he is identified as a son of Ezrah. He is recorded as having married Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh.

• AbishurPeople

  Abishur is a figure in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 2. He was the son of Shammai, a descendant of Jerahmeel, and the husband of Abihail.

• David's CensusBible

  David's census was the event in which King David had the fighting men of Israel and Judah counted, after which a plague struck the people; the plague ended when he built an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah. The account appears in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21.

• MolidPeople

  Molid is a figure in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 2. He was the son of Abishur, a descendant of Jerahmeel, and Abishur's wife Abihail, and the brother of Ahban.

• Shammai (son of Onam)People

  Shammai was a member of the Jerahmeelite clan of the tribe of Judah, the son of Onam and the father of Nadab and Abishur. His name appears only in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 2.

• AhbanPeople

  Ahban is a figure in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 2. He was the son of Abishur, a descendant of Jerahmeel, and Abishur's wife Abihail, and he was the brother of Molid.

• IsshiahPeople

  Isshiah was a Levite recorded as the head (chief) among the sons of Rehabiah, the grandson of Moses. His name appears only once, in 1 Chronicles 24:21.

• Priestly DivisionsBible

  The priestly divisions were a system, described in 1 Chronicles 24, in which David divided the priests descended from Aaron into twenty-four groups that took turns performing the temple duties. The system reappears in the Gospel of Luke as the "course of Abia" (the division of Abijah), to which Zacharias belonged.

• Perez-uzzahBible

  Perez-uzzah is the name David gave to the place where Uzzah died after taking hold of the Ark of the Covenant while it was being moved. The name is understood to mean "the breaking forth upon Uzzah," and it appears in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13.

• JehudijahPeople

  Jehudijah was the wife of Mered in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4:18 and the mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel.

• NethinimBible

  The Nethinim were a group who assisted the Levites in the temple at Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian exile. They appear chiefly in Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 Chronicles.