(SEE 15:17)

Asaph was appointed leader, with Zechariah as his assistant. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed Edom, and Jeiel were to play harps. Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

There was also Obed Edom, whom God blessed by giving him eight sons, listed in order of age: Shemaiah, Jehozabad, Joah, Sachar, Nethanel,

Obed Edom's family furnished a total of sixty-two highly qualified men for this work.

So he decided not to take it with him to Jerusalem; instead, he turned off the road and took it to the house of Obed Edom, a native of the city of Gath.

It stayed there three months, and the LORD blessed Obed Edom and his family.

Its original inhabitants had fled to Gittaim, where they have lived ever since.)