1 Chronicles 26:8
Good News Translation
Obed Edom's family furnished a total of sixty-two highly qualified men for this work.

New Revised Standard Version
All these, sons of Obed-edom with their sons and brothers, were able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom.

Contemporary English Version
There were 62 descendants of Obed-Edom who were strong enough to be guards at the temple.

New American Bible
All these were the sons of Obed-edom, who, together with their sons and their kinsmen, were men of substance, fit for the service. Of Obed-edom, sixty-two.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and their brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and their brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.

able men

Matthew 25:15 And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth.

1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any minister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
The Divisions of the Gatekeepers
7The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, Elizabad, and his brethren most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias. 8All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and their brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.9And the sons of Meselemia, and their brethren strong men, were eighteen.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:10
And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself into the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house of Obededom the Gethite.

1 Chronicles 26:7
The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, Elizabad, and his brethren most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias.

1 Chronicles 26:9
And the sons of Meselemia, and their brethren strong men, were eighteen.

1 Chronicles 26:7
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