Obed-Edom
Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with
harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;...
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So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into
the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house
of Obededom the Gittite....
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And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the
treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned
to Samaria....
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Obed-Edom - servant of Edom.
"The Gittite" (probably so called because he was a native of
Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the family of the Korhites,[1] to
whom was specially entrusted the custody of the ark.[2] When
David was bringing up the ark "from the house of Abinadab,
that was in Gibeah" (probably some hill or eminence near
Kiriath-jearim), a...
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o'-bed-e'-dom (`obhedh 'edhowm (2 Ch 25:24), `obhedd 'edhom
(2 Sam 6:10; 1 Ch 13:13,14; 15:25), but elsewhere without
hyphen, "servant of (god) Edom"; so W. R. Smith, Religion of
Semites (2), 42, and H. P. Smith, Samuel, 294 f, though
others explain it as = "servant of man"): In 2 Sam
6:10,11,12; 1 Ch 13:13,14 a Philistine of Gath and servant ...
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-1. A Korhite Levite
Doorkeeper of the ark of the covenant
1Ch 15:18,24; 26:4-8
David leaves the ark of the covenant with
2Sa 6:10; 1Ch 13:13,14
The ark of the covenant removed from
2Sa 6:12; 1Ch 15:25
Appointed to sound with harps
1Ch 15:21
Appointed to minister before the ark of the covenant
1Ch 16:4,5,37,38
-2. A doorkeeper of the tem...
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(servant of Edom).
1. A Levite, described as a Gittite, 2Sa 6:10,11 that
is, probably, a native of the Levitical city of Gath-rimmon in
Manasseh, which was assigned to the Kohathites. Jos 21:25
(B.C. 1045.) After the death of Uzzah, the ark, which was
being conducted from the house of Abinadab in Gibeah to the
city of David, was carried aside...
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servant of Edom. (1.) "The Gittite" (probably so called
because
he was a native of Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the
family of the
Korhites (1 Chr. 26:1, 4-8), to whom was specially
intrusted the
custody of the ark (1 Chr. 15:18). When David was
bringing up
the ark "from the house of Abinadab, that was in
Gibeah"
(probably some hill or eminen...
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1. 2 Samuel 6:11. (On his title "the Gittite".) Gath-rimmon
was a city of the Levite Kohathites in Dan (Joshua 21:24).
He was a Kohathite and distinguished by his title "Gittite"
from Obed Edom, son of Jeduthun, a Merarite (1 Chronicles
16:38). frontGITTITE.) Lived near Perez Uzzah, on the way
from Kirjath Jearim to Jerusalem. After Uzzah's st...
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