4. Obed-edom’s sons: Shemaiah, the firstborn, Jehozabad, a second son, Joah, the third, Sachar, the fourth, Nethanel, the fifth,
5. Ammiel, the sixth, Issachar, the seventh, Peullethai, the eighth, for God blessed him.
6. To his son Shemaiah were born sons who ruled over their family, for they were warriors.
7. The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad; also his kinsmen who were men of substance, Elihu and Semachiah.
8. All these were the sons of Obed-edom, who, together with their sons and their kinsmen, were men of substance, fit for the service. Of Obed-edom, sixty-two.
9. Of Meshelemiah, eighteen sons and kinsmen, men of substance.
10. Hosah, a descendant of Merari, had these sons: Shimri, the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, his father made him chief),