1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 Chronicles 15:17 Obed-edom (vv. 1 Chronicles 15:18, 1 Chronicles 15:24) may have been included among the Levitical gatekeepers because of his care for the ark, despite his probable Philistine origin (see note on 13:13–14). The postexilic Israelites had a much stricter policy concerning genealogical descent (see Ezra 2:61).

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