=32.= _they waited ... order_] a phrase characteristic of the Chronicler. For _waited_ render rather, as margin, =stood= (compare Psalms cxxxv. 2): i.e. Heman the leader stood in the central position, Asaph on his right hand (verse 39) and Ethan on his left (verse 44). =33‒38.= THE DESCENT OF HEMAN, DAVID’S SINGER, THROUGH KOHATH FROM LEVI. ³³And these are they that waited¹, 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 Toah²; ³⁵the son of Zuph³, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai; ³⁶the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel⁴, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah; ¹ Hebrew _stood_. ² In verse 26, _Nahath_. ³ In verse 26, _Zophai_. ⁴ In verse 24, _Shaul_, _Uzziah_, _Uriel_. =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, verse 37. ³⁷the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah; =37.= _Korah_] the sons of Korah figure in the titles of various Psalms (e.g. Psalms 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 (compare Genesis xxxvi. 5; 1 Chronicles ii. 43) indicate that the clan was originally of Edomite (Calebite) blood. ³⁸the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. =38.= _Izhar_] see note on Amminadab, verse 22. =39‒43.= THE DESCENT OF ASAPH, DAVID’S SINGER, THROUGH GERSHOM FROM LEVI. ³⁹And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea; ⁴⁰the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah; =39, 40.= _Berechiah ... Shimea ... Michael ... Baaseiah ... Malchijah_] these are the five additional names inserted to lengthen the pedigree and so make Asaph contemporary with David (see head-note above). =40.= _Baaseiah_] Read, as LXX., =Maaseiah=. ⁴¹the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah; ⁴²the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei; ⁴³the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.