Now the name of his firstborn was JOEL; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of JOEL, the son of Samuel,

So the Levites appointed Heman the son of JOEL; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;