1 Chronicles 6:33

We have now the name and pedigree of each of the three chief singers or musicians (their duty was both vocal and instrumental) of David's appointment, beginning, according to the analogy of 1 Chronicles 6:2 , supra , with Heman, the descendant of Kohath, instead of Asaph from Gershom. So the place of Heman was still the place of honor, in the centre, with Asaph on the right and Ethan on the left ( 1 Chronicles 6:39 , 1 Chronicles 6:44 ). Heman is the twenty-first according to this list ( 1 Chronicles 6:33-38 ) after Levi, but the genealogy is indistinct (see above, 1 Chronicles 6:22-28 ) between Shemuel and Assir, and according to Hervey, Heman comes fourteenth after Levi. This Heman is to be distinguished from Heman the "son of Zerah" ( 1 Chronicles 2:6 ), and with but little doubt, therefore, from Heman the Ezrahite (Zerahite) of Psalms 88:1-18 . On the other hand, a theory has been suggested by Lord Arthur C. Hervey which might reconcile the two. He supposes that if Heman the Kohathite (or his father) had married an heiress of the house of Zerah, he might have become reckoned in the line of Zerah as well as in that of Kohath.