1 Chronicles 22:1–24:31

Then David said, ^aThis is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. ²And David commanded to gather together ^bthe strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew ^cwrought stones to build the house of God. ³And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the ^ccjoinings; and brass in abundance ^dwithout weight; ⁴Also cedar trees in abundance: for ^ethe Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. ⁵And David said, Solomon my son is ^fyoung and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

⁶Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel. ⁷And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, ^git was in my mind to build an house ^hunto the name of the Lord my God: ⁸But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁱThou hast shed blood abundantly, and ^jhast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. ⁹Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of ^krest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be ^||Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. ^10lHe shall build an house for my name; and ^mhe shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever. ¹¹Now, my son, ⁿthe Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee. ¹²Only the Lord ^ogive thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God. ^13pThen shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: ^qbe strong, and of good courage; ^rdread not, nor be dismayed. ¹⁴Now, behold, ^||in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the Lord an ^shundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron ^twithout weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. ¹⁵Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and ^||workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. ¹⁶Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is ^uno number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and ^vthe Lord be with thee.

¹⁷David also commanded all ^wthe princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, ¹⁸Is not the Lord your God with you? and hath he ^xnot ^ygiven you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people. ¹⁹Now ^zset your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring ^athe ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.

23^*So when David was old and ^afull of days, he made ^bSolomon his son king over Israel.

²And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. ³Now the Levites were numbered from the age of ^cthirty years and upward: and their number ^dby their polls, man by man, was ^ethirty and eight thousand. ⁴Of which, twenty and four thousand were ^||to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were ^fofficers and judges: ⁵Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments ^gwhich I made, ^hsaid David, to praise therewith. ⁶And ⁱDavid divided them into ^†courses among ^kthe sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

^7lOf the Gershonites were, ^||Laadan, and Shimei. ⁸The sons of Laadan; the chief was ^mJehiel, and ^lZetham, and ^lJoel, three. ⁹The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan. ¹⁰And the sons of ⁿShimei were, Jahath, ^||Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei. ¹¹And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah ^†had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.

^12oThe sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. ¹³The sons of ^pAmram; Aaron and Moses: and ^qAaron was separated, that he should sanctify ^rthe most holy things, he and his sons for ever, ^sto burn incense before the Lord, ^tto minister unto him, and ^tuto bless in his name for ever. ¹⁴Now concerning Moses ^xthe man of God, ^yhis sons were named of the tribe of Levi. ^15zThe sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer. ^16aOf the sons of Gershom, ^||Shebuel was the chief. ¹⁷And the sons of Eliezer were, ^bRehabiah ^||the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah ^†were very many. ¹⁸Of the sons of Izhar; ^||Shelomith the chief. ^19cOf the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰Of the sons of Uzziel; ^dMichah the first, and ^dJesiah the second.

^21eThe sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and ^fKish. ²²And Eleazar died, and ^ghad no sons, but daughters: and their ^||brethren the sons of Kish ^htook them. ²³ⁱThe sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

²⁴These were ^kthe sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as ^lthey were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of ^mtwenty years and upward. ²⁵For David said, The Lord God of Israel ⁿhath given rest unto his people, ^||that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: ²⁶And also unto the Levites; they shall no more ^ocarry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. ²⁷For by the last words of David the Levites were ^†numbered from twenty years old and above: ²⁸Because ^†their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the ^pchambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; ²⁹Both for ^qthe shewbread, and for ^rthe fine flour for meat offering, and for ^sthe unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the ^||pan, and for that which is ^tfried, and for all manner of ^umeasure and ^usize; ³⁰And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at even; ³¹And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord in the ^xsabbaths, in the ^ynew moons, and on the ^zset feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the Lord: ³²And that they should ^akeep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and ^bthe charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the Lord.

24Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. ^aThe sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²But ^bNadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office. ³And David distributed them, both ^cZadok of the sons of Eleazar, and ^cAhimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. ⁴And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men ^dof the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar ^daccording to the house of their fathers. ⁵Thus were they divided by ^elot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. ⁶And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and ^cZadok the priest, and ^cAhimelech the son of ^fAbiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one ^†principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. ⁷Now the first lot came forth to ^gJehoiarib, the second to ^hJedaiah, ⁸The third to ^hHarim, the fourth to Seorim, ⁹The fifth to ⁱMalchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, ¹⁰The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to ^jAbijah, ¹¹The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, ¹²The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, ¹³The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, ¹⁴The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to ^hImmer, ¹⁵The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, ¹⁶The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, ¹⁷The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, ¹⁸The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah. ¹⁹These were the orderings of them in their service ^kto come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

²⁰And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of ^lAmram; ^||Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah. ²¹Concerning ^lRehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah. ²²Of the Izharites; ^||Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath. ²³And the sons ^mof Hebron; Jeriah ^mthe first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. ²⁴Of the sons of Uzziel; ⁿMichah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir. ²⁵The brother of Michah was ⁿIsshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah. ^26oThe sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno. ²⁷The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. ²⁸Of Mahli came Eleazar, ^pwho had no sons. ²⁹Concerning ^qKish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel. ^30rThe sons also of Mushi; ^sMahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers. ³¹These likewise ^tcast lots over against their brethren…