Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 24-26.

So, as I have previously mentioned, passages such as today’s tend to make my eyes glaze over as I read them.  They are the perfect example of why I need to write this blog.  Since I need to write something about such passages, from time to time I notice things I might not otherwise notice.  Today, I took notice that the descendants of Obed-Edom were listed among the Levites.  I find that noteworthy because when Obed-Edom was mentioned as the person into whose care David put the ark of the covenant, it called him a Gittite.  Based on the other places where Gittite is used in the Old Testament, I had always assumed that a Gittite was a Philistine from Gath.  My first thought was that perhaps the Obed-Edom mentioned in 2 Samuel was a different person than this one.  However, this passage makes a point that God had blessed Obed-Edom, which is very similar to the wording of that David was told about the Obed-Edom in 2 Samuel.  So, I am confident that the Obed-Edom mentioned here is Obed-Edom the Gittite.  This leads me to conclude that Gittites were not necessarily Philistines.  Perhaps Ittai the Gittite who led the 600 warriors from Gath who joined King David at the beginning of Absalom’s rebellion was not a Philistine, or perhaps he was.  I will add that in King Saul’s first major victory over the Philistines, Hebrews who were in the Philistine army switched sides to ensure his victory.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.