Jakim

The name Jakim attaches to two unrelated men in Chronicles: a Benjamite head listed in the tribal genealogy of 1 Chronicles 8, and the priestly father of the twelfth course in the lot-division David and the priests of Aaron arranged for service at the house of Yahweh.

The Benjamite

In the long Benjamite roll of 1 Chronicles 8, Jakim appears among the sons of Shimei: "and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi" (1 Chr 8:19). The list closes that branch by naming the father — "and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei" (1 Chr 8:21) — placing Jakim within Benjamin's house alongside the wider catalog of Beriah's, Elpaal's, and Shimei's descendants gathered in the chapter.

The Priestly Course

Under David's organization of Aaron's sons for tabernacle service, the priestly fathers' houses were divided by lot into twenty-four courses. "And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service" (1 Chr 24:3). The twelfth lot fell to Jakim: "the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim" (1 Chr 24:12). The roll concludes by tying the whole arrangement to the priestly mandate: "This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him" (1 Chr 24:19).