the principal to begin the thanksgiving. Or, [was] head: "the starting point [was], he was to praise at the time of prayer. "
Abda the son of Shammua. Probably. Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, as in 1 Chronicles 9:16.
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Nehemiah 11:17
17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.