-38. And these are they that waited with their children,.... They and their posterity, who officiated in the service of singing psalms in the sanctuary: the three heads of them were of the three families of the Levites, as follow:of the sons of the Kohathites, Heman a singer; the chief of the singers, and who composed psalms and hymns, which are in the book of Psalms:the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel; or Samuel.
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1 Chronicles 6:33
1 Chronicles 6:33
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