1 Chronicles 9:34
Good News Translation
The men named above were heads of Levite families, according to their ancestral lines. They were the leaders who lived in Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
These were heads of ancestral houses of the Levites, according to their generations; these leaders lived in Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
All of these men were family leaders in the Levi tribe and were listed that way in their family records. They lived in Jerusalem.

New American Bible
These were the levitical family heads by their generations, chiefs who dwelt in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.

chief fathers

1 Chronicles 9:13 And their brethren heads in their families a thousand seven hundred and threescore, very strong and able men for the work of the ministry in the house of God.

Nehemiah 11:1-15 And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of the people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities. . . .

1 Chronicles 8:28 These were the chief fathers, and heads of their families who dwelt in Jerusalem.

;) but the Jerusalem of sacred history is no more. After having been successively destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and taken by the Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks, in the possession of the latter of whom it still continues, not a vestige remains of the capital of David and Solomon, not a monument of Jewish times is standing. The very course of the walls is changed, and the boundaries of the ancient city are become doubtful. The monks pretend to shew the sites of the sacred places; but they have not the slightest pretensions to even a probable identity with the real places. The Jerusalem that now is, however, called by the Arabs {El Kouds}, or `the holy city,' is still a respectable, good looking town, of an irregular shape: it is surrounded by high embattled walls, enclosing an area not exceeding two miles and a half, and occupying two small hills, having the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, the valley of Siloam and Gehinnom on the south, and the valley of Rephaim on the west; and containing a population variously estimated at from

20,000 to

30,000 souls.

Context
The People of Jerusalem
33These are the chief of the singing men of the families of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers, by the temple, that they might serve continually day and night in their ministry. 34The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:33
These are the chief of the singing men of the families of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers, by the temple, that they might serve continually day and night in their ministry.

1 Chronicles 9:35
And in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the father of Gabaon, and the name of his wife was Maacha:

1 Chronicles 9:33
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