1 Chronicles 23

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.