Jahath

Jahath is named in the genealogies of the Levites. In the line of Gershom he follows Libni: “Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son” (1 Chronicles 6:20). In the ancestry of Asaph, one of those whom “David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house” (1 Chronicles 6:31; 1 Chronicles 6:39), he stands near the head of the line: “the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi” (1 Chronicles 6:43). He lived many generations before David's time, and nothing more is told of him.