Jerusalem was the city of God during the dispensation of the Law of Moses. Since the Lord scattered the Levites among the Israelites, some of the Levites He placed in the beloved city of God,
Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites (1 Chronicles 9:14–16).
Did those men know the significance of their city through the ages? I doubt that they did, except that they knew the one, true, and living God resided in the tabernacle there in later times.
The Lord placed the people He wanted in various places throughout the land, even as He does with the church, placing people in the body as it pleases Him.
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Don, I missed the connection of these verses with Jerusalem. My dictionary says the Netophathites are inhabitants of Netophah, which was near Bethlehem. What am I missing?
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My understanding of these verses is that they show the Levites—Shemaiah, Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, Mattaniah, Obadiah, and Berechiah—who came from the villages of the Netophathites to live in Jerusalem.
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