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Selected Verse: 1 Chronicles 9:31 - King James

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1Ch 9:31 King James And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Mattithiah ... the first-born of Shallum the Korahite - This Shallum would seem to be the person mentioned in Ch1 9:19, whose actual first-born was Zechariah Ch1 26:2. Mattithiah may have been his eldest lineal descendant at the time here spoken of.
 
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2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.