Unni
Two Levites bear this name in the umbrella: a musician under David, and a post-exilic Levite in Nehemiah's day. The two are separated by centuries and by office — one plays at the bringing up of the ark, the other serves in the rebuilt community — but both stand in the same line of Levitical service.
A Musician in David's Day
The first Unni is named twice in the list of Levites appointed to lead music when the ark is brought to Jerusalem. First, among "their brothers of the second degree":
"and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, son, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers" (1Ch 15:18).
Then, in the assignment of instruments, his specific role is given:
"and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth" (1Ch 15:20).
Unni's instrument is the psaltery, and the tuning is "Alamoth." The notice is brief but specific — he is one of a named group of Levitical musicians, with a defined instrument and tuning, attached to the ceremony of bringing the ark up.
A Levite in Nehemiah's Day
A second Levite of the same line appears in the post-exilic register. The UPDV records the name with a different ending — "Unno" — but the entry is short:
"Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were next to them according to their offices" (Ne 12:9).
The verse stands inside Nehemiah's catalogue of the Levites who returned with Zerubbabel and Jeshua. Two men are named — Bakbukiah and Unno — and their position is stated only as "next to them according to their offices." The detail is administrative: a place in the rotation, a recognized office, and a relation to the brother-Levites named just before.
The umbrella collects two figures of the same name and the same Levitical line, both placed in the temple's musical and ministerial structure, one under David and one in the rebuilt community.