17. Jachin] Compare ix. 10 (= Nehemiah xi. 10).
¹⁸the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah. ¹⁹This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of the Lord according to the ordinance given unto them by the hand of Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
18. Maaziah] Nehemiah x. 8 (x. 9, Hebrew).
20–31 (compare xxiii. 13–23).
Families of the Levites.
These verses repeat the list of Levitic families given in xxiii. 6–23 with the important omission of the whole of the Gershonites (xxiii. 6–11), but with some additions to the Kohathite and Merarite families. Further, six “heads” of classes mentioned in xxiii. are here replaced by new names. These features, together with several details, point to the conclusion that the present list is the work of a later writer than the Chronicler.
²⁰And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael[¹]; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
[¹] In chapter xxiii. 16, Shebuel.
20 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of, etc.] These are probably the words of the glossator, introducing the list which follows and which he intended as a corrective to the list in xxiii. 6–23.
Amram] The four Kohathite families are now noticed in order, viz. Amram, Izhar (verse 22), Hebron (verse 23), Uzziel (verse 24).
Shubael] Called “Shebuel” in xxiii. 16, xxvi. 24.