1 Chronicles 9:33

Translate, And these singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, in the chambers were free. The word "free" is surely sufficiently explained by the following sentence, in connection with Ezra 7:24 ; Nehemiah 11:23 . It is more doubtful whether the expression, "these singers," refers to names, which now should have been inserted but are lost, or possibly to Nehemiah 11:16 , ante ; the idiom would prefer the former. They were employed in that work day and night ; literally, for by day and by night on them , in the work. If we were to suppose the cheth before the "work" an error for he, the translation would be easy and free from all doubt, for by day and by night , the work devolved upon them. Anyway, the substance of the sense is obvious.