1Everyone in Israel was listed in the official family records that were included in the history of Israel's kings.
The people of Judah were taken to Babylonia as prisoners because they sinned against the Lord.
2 as well as the other men in the Korahite clan, guarded the entrance to the temple, just as their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the sacred tent.
20Phinehas son of Eleazar had supervised their work because the Lord was with him.
21Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was also one of the guards at the temple.
22There was a total of 212 guards, all of them listed in the family records in their towns. Their ancestors had been chosen by King David and by Samuel the prophet to be responsible for this work,
23and now they guarded the temple gates.
24There was one full-time guard appointed to each of the four sides of the temple.
25Their assistants lived in the villages outside the city, and every seven days a group of them would come into the city and take their turn at guard duty.
26The four full-time guards were Levites, and they supervised the other guards and were responsible for the rooms in the temple and the supplies kept there.
27They guarded the temple day and night and opened its doors every morning.
The Duties of the Levites28Some of the Levites were responsible for the equipment used in worship at the temple, and they had to count everything before and after it was used.
29Others were responsible for the temple furnishings and its sacred objects, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.
30But only the priests could mix the spices.
31Mattithiah, Shallum's oldest son, was a member of the Levite clan of Korah, and he was in charge of baking the bread used for offerings.
32The Levites from the Kohath clan were in charge of baking the sacred loaves of bread for each Sabbath.
33The Levite family leaders who were the musicians also lived at the temple. They had no other responsibilities, because they were on duty day and night.
34All of these men were family leaders in the Levi tribe and were listed that way in their family records. They lived in Jerusalem.
King Saul's Family(1 Chronicles 8.29-38)35Jeiel had settled the town of Gibeon, where he and his wife Maacah lived.
36They had ten sons, who were born in the following order: Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
37Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth
38the father of Shimeam. Some of them went to live in Jerusalem near their relatives.
39Ner was the father of Kish and the grandfather of King Saul.
Saul had four sons: Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
40-41Jonathan was the father of Meribbaal, the grandfather of Micah, and the great-grandfather of Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
42-44The descendants of Ahaz included Jarah, Alemeth, Azmaveth, Zimri, Moza, Binea, Rephaiah, Eleasah, and Azel and his six sons: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan.
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