The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
at the fourteenth to Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
The fourteenth to Mattithiah; his sons and his brethren, twelve.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches1
From the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah—six in all—under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the harp, giving thanks and praise to the LORD.
