1 Chronicles 6–7

Chapter 6

The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

²The Sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel.

³The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Mary. The Sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁴Eleazar begot Phinees, and Phinees begot Abisue,

⁵And Abisue begot Bocci, and Bocci begot Ozi.

⁶Ozi begot Zaraias, and Zaraias begot Maraioth.

⁷And Maraioth begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.

⁸Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Achimaas.

⁹Achimaas begot Azarias, Azarias begot Johanan,

¹⁰Johanan begot Azarias. This is he that executed the priestly office in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.

¹¹And Azarias begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.

¹²And Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Sellum,

¹³Sellum begot Helcias, and Helcias begot Azarias,

¹⁴Azarias begot Saraias, and Saraias begot Josedec.

¹⁵Now Josedec went out, when the Lord carried away Juda, and Jerusalem, by the hands of Nabuchodonosor.

¹⁶So the sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

¹⁷And these are the names of the sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.

¹⁸The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel.

¹⁹The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And these are the kindreds of Levi according to their families.

²⁰Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahath his son, Zamma his son,

²¹Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his son, Jethrai his son.

²²The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son, Core his son, Asir his son,

²³Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son, Asir his son,

²⁴Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias his son, Saul his son.

²⁵The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achimoth.

²⁶And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai his son, Nahath his son,

²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his son.

²⁸The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vasseni, and Abia.

²⁹And the sons of Merari, Moholi: Lobni his son, Semei his son, Oza his son,

³⁰Sammaa his son, Haggia his son, Asaia his son.

³¹These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house of the Lord, after that the ark was placed.

³²And they ministered before the tabernacle of the testimony, with singing, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they stood according to their order in the ministry.

³³And these are they that stood with their sons, of the sons of Caath, Hemam a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Sammuel,

³⁴The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,

³⁵The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

³⁶The son of Elcana, the son of Johel, the son of Azarias, the son of Sophonias,

³⁷The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,

³⁸The son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

³⁹And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, Asaph the son of Barachias, the son of Samaa.

⁴⁰The son of Michael, the son of Basaia, the, son of Melchia.

⁴¹The son of Athanai, the son of Zara, the son of Adaia.

⁴²The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the son of Semei.

⁴³The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son of Levi.

⁴⁴And the sons of Merari their brethren, on the left hand, Ethan the son of Cusi, the son of Abdi, the son of Meloch,

⁴⁵The son of Hasabia, the son of Amasai, the son of Helcias,

⁴⁶The son of Amasai, the son of Boni, the son of Somer,

⁴⁷The son of Moholi, the son of Musi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

⁴⁸Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the ministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord.

⁴⁹But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

⁵⁰And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinees his son, Abisue his son,

⁵¹Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia his son,

⁵²Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob his son,

⁵³Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.

⁵⁴And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.

⁵⁵And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:

⁵⁶But the fields of the city, and the villages to Caleb son of Jephone.

⁵⁷And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities for refuge Hebron, and Lobna, and the suburbs thereof,

⁵⁸And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:

⁵⁹Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

⁶⁰And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath with its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities throughout their families were thirteen.

⁶¹And to the sons of Caath that remained of their kindred they gave out of the half tribe of Manasses ten cities in possession.

⁶²And to the sons of Gerson by their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of Nephtali, and out of the tribe Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.

⁶³And to the sons of Merari by their families out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon, they gave by lot twelve cities.

⁶⁴And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

⁶⁵And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.

⁶⁶And to them that were of the kindred of the sons of Caath, and the cities in their borders were of the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁷And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs,

⁶⁸Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-horon in like manner,

⁶⁹Helon also with its suburbs, and Gethremmon in like manner,

⁷⁰And out of the half tribe of Manasses, Aner and its suburbs, Baalam and its suburbs, to wit, to them that were left of the family of the sons of Caath.

⁷¹And to the sons of Gersom, out the kindred of the half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon, in Basan, and its suburbs, and Astharoth with its suburbs.

⁷²Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes and its suburbs, and Dabereth with its suburbs;

⁷³Ramoth also and its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs.

⁷⁴And out of the tribe of Aser: Masal with its suburbs, and Abdon in like manner;

⁷⁵Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol with its suburbs.

⁷⁶And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee and its suburbs, Hamon with its suburbs, and Cariathaim, and its suburbs.

⁷⁷And to the sons of Merari that remained: out of the tribe of Zabulon, Remmono and its suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs.

⁷⁸Beyond the Jordan also over against Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan and out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;

⁷⁹Cademoth also and its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;

⁸⁰Moreover also out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad and its suburbs, and Manaim with its suburbs;

⁸¹Hesebon also with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

Chapter 7

Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua, Jasub and Simeron, four.

²The sons of Thola: Ozi and Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jemai, and Jebsem, and Samuel, chiefs of the houses of their kindreds. Of the posterity of Thola were numbered in the days of David, two and twenty thousand six hundred most valiant men.

³The sons of Ozi: Izrahia, of whom were born Michael, and Obadia, and Joel, and Jesia, five all great men.

⁴And there were with them by their families and peoples, six and thirty thousand most valiant men ready for war: for they had many wives and children.

⁵Their brethren also throughout all the house of Issachar, were numbered fourscore and seven thousand most valiant men for war.

⁶The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three.

⁷The sons of Bela: Esbon, and Ozi, and Ozial, and Jerimoth and Urai, five chiefs of their families, and most valiant warriors, and their number was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

⁸And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath: all these were the sons of Bechor.

⁹And they were numbered by the families, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men for war, twenty thousand and two hundred.

¹⁰And the son of Jadihel: Balan. And the sons of Balan: Jehus and Benjamin, and Aod, and Chanana, and Zethan and Tharsis, and Ahisahar.

¹¹All these were sons of Jadihel, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men, seventeen thousand and two hundred fifty to go out to war.

¹²Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir: and Hasim the sons of Aher.

¹³And the sons of Nephtali were Jasiel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Sellum, sons of Bala.

¹⁴And the son of Manasses, Ezriel: and his concubine the Syrian bore Machir the father of Galaad.

¹⁵And Machir took wives for his sons Happhim, and Saphan: and he had a sister named Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad, and Salphaad had daughters.

¹⁶And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Phares: and the name of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam and Recen.

¹⁷And the son of Ulam, Baden. These are the sons of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses.

¹⁸And his sister named Queen bore Goodlyman, and Abiezer, and Mohola.

¹⁹And the sons of Semida were Ahiu, and Sechem, and Leci and Aniam.

²⁰And the sons of Ephraim were Suthala, Bared his son, Thahath his son, Elada his son, Thahath his son, and his son Zabad,

²¹And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and Elad: and the men of Geth born in the land slew them, because they came down to invade their possessions.

²²And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

²³And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house:

²⁴And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the upper,…