Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.
      V. Here is one Phinehas, a son of Eleazar, that is said to be a ruler over them in time past (1 Chronicles 9:20; 1 Chronicles 9:20), not the famous high priest of that name, but (as is supposed) an eminent Levite, of whom it is here said that the Lord was with him, or (as the Chaldee reads it) the Word of the Lord was his helper--the eternal Word, who is Jehovah, the mighty one on whom help is laid.