The singers - No names are listed, and it is thought that they have been omitted from the text.

Were free - "Free," that is, f…

Refers to the singers discu ed in 1 Chronicles 9:14–16: And these (above mentioned) are the minstrels, heads of L…

And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the
Levites
Others of them were em…

This chapter expresses that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, when they returned from captivity, with whom to unit…