1 Chronicles 23–26

Chapter 23

David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel.

²And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and Levites.

³And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

⁴Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges.

⁵Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.

⁶And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.

⁷The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.

⁸The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel, three.

⁹The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aran, three: these were the heads of the families of Leedan.

¹⁰And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and Ziza, and Jaus, and Baria: these were the sons of Semei, four.

¹¹And Leheth was the first, Ziza the second: but Jaus and Baria had not many children, and therefore they were counted in one family, and in one house.

¹²The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel, four.

¹³The sons of Amram, Aaron, and Moses. And Aaron was separated to minister in the holy of holies, he and his sons for ever, and to burn incense before the Lord, according to his ceremonies, and to bless his name for ever.

¹⁴The sons also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the tribe of Levi.

¹⁵The sons of Moses were Gersom and Eliezer:

¹⁶The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.

¹⁷And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eliezer had no more sons. But the sons of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.

¹⁸The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.

¹⁹The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaam the fourth.

²⁰The sons of Oziel: Micha the first, Jesia the second.

²¹The sons of Merari: Moholi, and Musi. The sons of Moholi: Eleazar and Cis.

²²And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of Cis their brethren took them.

²³The sons of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.

²⁴These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families, princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old and upward.

²⁵For David said: The Lord the God of Israel hath given rest to his people, and a habitation in Jerusalem for ever.

²⁶And it shall not be the office of the Levites to carry any more the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the service thereof.

²⁷So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are to be numbered from twenty years old and upward.

²⁸And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers, and in the place of purification, and in the sanctuary, and in all the works of the ministry of the temple of the Lord.

²⁹And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition, and of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.

³⁰And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,

³¹As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.

³²And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of the Lord.

Chapter 24

Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron: The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

²But Nadab and Abiu died before their father, and had no children: so Eleazar, and Ithamar did the office of the priesthood.

³And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their courses and ministry.

⁴And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the principal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their families: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and houses.

⁵And he divided both the families one with the other by lot: for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

⁶And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe a Levite, wrote them down before the king and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the priestly and Levitical families: one house, which was over the rest, of Eleazar: and another house, which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.

⁷Now the first lot came forth to Joiarib, the second to Jedei,

⁸The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

⁹The fifth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,

¹⁰The seventh to Accos, the eighth to Abia,

¹¹The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,

¹²The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to Jacim,

¹³The thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth to Isbaab,

¹⁴The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,

¹⁵The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,

¹⁶The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twentieth to Hezechiel,

¹⁷The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,

¹⁸The three and twentieth to Dalaiau, the four and twentieth to Maaziau.

¹⁹These are their courses according to their ministries, to come into the house of the Lord, and according to their manner under the hand of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of Israel had commanded.

²⁰Now of the rest of the sons of Levi, there was of the sons of Amram, Subael: and of the sons of Subael, Jehedeia.

²¹Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief Jesias.

²²And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and the son of Salemoth Jahath:

²³And his son Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaan the fourth.

²⁴The son of Oziel, Micha: the son of Micha, Samir.

²⁵The brother of Micha, Jesia: and the son of Jesia, Zacharias.

²⁶The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.

²⁷The son also of Merari Oziau, and Soam, and Zacchur, and Hebri.

²⁸And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons.

²⁹And the son of Cis, Jeramael.

³⁰The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and Jerimoth. These are the sons of Levi according to the houses of their families.

³¹And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.

Chapter 25

Moreover David and the chief officers of the army separated for the ministry the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Idithun: to prophesy with harps, and with psalteries, and with cymbals according to their number serving in their appointed office.

²Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and Joseph, and Nathania, and Asarela, sons of Asaph: under the hand of Asaph prophesying near the king.

³And of Idithun: the sons of Idithun, Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and Hasabias, and Mathathias, under the hand of their father Idithun, who prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the Lord.

⁴Of Heman also: the sons of Heman, Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel, Subuel, and Jerimoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi, and Romemthiezer, and Jesbacassa, Mellothi, Othir, Mahazioth:

⁵All these were the sons of Heman the seer of the king in the words of God, to lift up the horn: and God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

⁶All these under their father’s hand were distributed to sing in the temple of the Lord, with cymbals, and psalteries and harps, for the service of the house of the Lord near the king: to wit, Asaph, and Idithun, and Heman.

⁷And the number of them with their brethren, that taught the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred and eighty-eight.

⁸And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the younger, the learned and the unlearned together.

⁹And the first lot came forth to Joseph, who was of Asaph. The second to Godolias, to him and his sons, and his brethren twelve.

¹⁰The third to Zachur, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹¹The fourth to Isari, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹²The fifth to Nathania, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹³The sixth to Bocciau, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹⁴The seventh to Isreela, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹⁵The eighth to Jesaia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹⁶The ninth to Mathanaias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹⁷The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹⁸The eleventh to Azareel, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

¹⁹The twelfth to Hasabia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁰The thirteenth to Subael, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²¹The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²²The fifteenth to Jerimoth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²³The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁴The seventeenth to Jesbacassa, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁵The eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁶The nineteenth to Mellothi, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁷The twentieth to Eliatha, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁸The one and twentieth to Othir, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

²⁹The two and twentieth to Geddelthi, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

³⁰The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

³¹The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

Chapter 26

And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons…