1 Chronicles 13:13 - Homiletics

Obed-edom the Gittite . That Obed-edom is called "the Gittite," i.e. of Gath-rimmon, a Levite city of Dan ( Joshua 21:24 ), might probably indicate that there was another Obed-edom, from whom to distinguish him. Such a one would appear readily to offer in the name of Obed-edom, son of Jeduthun, a "Merarite Levite" ( 1 Chronicles 15:18-24 ; 1 Chronicles 16:5 , 1 Chronicles 16:38 ; 1 Chronicles 26:4-15 ). But the difficulty occurs that an expression in this last quotation seems to identify him with the Obed-edom of 2 Samuel 6:11 ; and the last sentence of our next verse. If they are one and the same, it has been suggested that marriage might account for the Merarite living in a Kohathite city (see 'Speaker's Commentary' on 2 Samuel 6:10 ).