Amasai: Burdensome.1. A Levite, son of Elkanah, of the ancestry of Samuel
(1 Chronicles 6:25,35)
2. The leader of a body of men who joined David in the "stronghold,"
probably of Adullam
(1 Chronicles 12:18)
3. One of the priests appointed to precede the ark with blowing of
trumpets on its removal from the house of Obed-edom
(1 Chronicles 15:24)
4. The father of a Levite, one of the two Kohathites who took a
prominent part at the instance of Hezekiah in the cleansing of
the temple
(2 Chronicles 29:12)
