31And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest. 32And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and they [1]waited on their office according to their order. 33And these are they that [1]waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel; 34the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of [2]Toah; 35the son of [3]Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai; 36the son of Elkanah, the son of [4]Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah; 37the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah; 38the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. 39And his brother Asaph, who stood
31. the ark had rest] i.e. was brought into the city of David for a permanent resting-place, cp. Ps. cxxxii. 8, 14.
33. they waited . . . order] a phrase characteristic of the Chronicler. For waited render rather, as mg., stood (cp. Ps. cxxxv. 2): i.e. Heman the leader stood in the central position, Asaph on his right hand (ver. 39) and Ethan on his left (ver. 44).
33—38. The descent of Heman, David's singer,
through Kohath from Levi.
33. Heman] the guild of Heman, as the present pedigree indicates, is reckoned (with what measure of historical ground is uncertain) to be of Levitical descent and of the Kohathite family: see also Korah below, ver. 37.
37. Korah] the sons of Korah figure in the titles of various Psalms (e.g. Pss. 44—49, 84, 85) and probably represent an earlier stage in the development of choral worship of the Temple. With this Korahite guild the guild of Heman evidently was associated, though whether by a process of development or of amalgamation it is impossible to say. It is noteworthy that other references to Korah (cp. Gen. xxxvi. 5; 1 Chr. ii. 43) indicate that the clan was originally of Edomite (Calebite) blood.
38. Izhar] see note on Amminadab, ver. 22.
