1. The temple guards were also divided into groups according to clans.Meshelemiah son of Kore was from the Korah clan and was a descendant of Asaph.
2. He had seven sons, who were born in the following order: Zechariah, Jediael, Zebadiah, Jathniel,
3. Elam, Jehohanan, and Eliehoenai.
4-5. Obed-Edom had been blessed with eight sons: Shemaiah, Jehozabad, Joah, Sachar, Nethanel, Ammiel, Issachar, and Peullethai.
6-7. Shemaiah was the father of Othni, Rephael, Obed, Elzabad, Elihu, and Semachiah. They were all respected leaders in their clan.
8. There were sixty-two descendants of Obed-Edom who were strong enough to be guards at the temple.
10-11. Hosah, from the Merari clan, was the father of Shimri, Hilkiah, Tebaliah, and Zechariah. Hosah had made Shimri the family leader, even though he was not the eldest son. Thirteen men from Hosah's family were chosen to be temple guards.
31-32. Jerijah was the leader of the Hebron clan. David assigned him and two thousand seven hundred of his relatives, who were all respected family leaders, to be the officials in charge of all religious and government business in the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh. David found out about these men during the fortieth year of his rule, when he had a list made of all the families in the Hebron clan. They were from the town of Jazer in the territory of Gilead.