1 Chronicles 6–7

¹Sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ²And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ³And sons of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁴Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, ⁵and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, ⁶and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, ⁷Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ⁸and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz, ⁹and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan, ¹⁰and Johanan begat Azariah, him who acted as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹¹And Azariah begetteth Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ¹²and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, ¹³and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, ¹⁴and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak; ¹⁵and Jehozadak hath gone in Jehovah’s removing Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁶Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷And these are names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸And sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these are families of the Levite according to their fathers; ²⁰of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son. ²²Sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, ²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵And sons of Elkanah; Amasai and Ahimoth. ²⁶Elkanah; sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, ²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ²⁸And sons of Samuel: the first-born Vashni, and the second Abijah. ²⁹Sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ³⁰Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

³¹And these are they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark, ³²and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service. ³³And these are those standing, and their sons: of the sons of the Kohathite: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Shemuel, ³⁴son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, ³⁵son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, ³⁶son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, ³⁷son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, ³⁸son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel. ³⁹And his brother Asaph, who is standing on his right—Asaph, son of Berachiah, son of Shimea, ⁴⁰son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchiah, ⁴¹son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, ⁴²son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, ⁴³son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. ⁴⁴And sons of Merari, their brethren, are on the left. Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, ⁴⁵son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shamer, ⁴⁷son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. ⁴⁸And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. ⁴⁹And Aaron and his sons are making perfume on the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of the perfume, for all the work of the holy of holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses servant of God commanded. ⁵⁰And these are sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, ⁵¹Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, ⁵²Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, ⁵³Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

⁵⁴And these are their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for theirs was the lot; ⁵⁵and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its suburbs round about it; ⁵⁶and the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs, ⁵⁸and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs, ⁵⁹and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs. ⁶⁰And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs. All their cities are thirteen cities, for their families. ⁶¹And to the sons of Kohath, those left of the family of the tribe, from the half of the tribe, the half of Manasseh, by lot, are ten cities. ⁶²And to the sons of Gershom, for their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. ⁶³To the sons of Merari, for their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, by lot, twelve cities. ⁶⁴And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs. ⁶⁵And they give by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they call by name; ⁶⁶and some of the families of the sons of Kohath have cities of their border from the tribe of Ephraim; ⁶⁷and they give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs, ⁶⁸and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-Horan and its suburbs, ⁶⁹and Aijalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs; ⁷⁰and from the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, for the family of the sons of Kohath who are left. ⁷¹To the sons of Gershom from the family of the half of the tribe of Manasseh are Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs; ⁷²and from the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh and its suburbs, Daberath and its suburbs, ⁷³and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs; ⁷⁴and from the tribe of Asher; Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs, ⁷⁵and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs; ⁷⁶and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its suburbs. ⁷⁷To the sons of Merari who are left, from the tribe of Zebulun, are Rimmon and its suburbs, Tabor and its suburbs; ⁷⁸and from beyond the Jordan by Jericho, at the east of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs, ⁷⁹and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs; ⁸⁰and from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs, ⁸¹and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jazer and its suburbs.

Chapter 7

¹And sons of Issachar; Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ²And sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of the house of their fathers, even of Tola, mighty of valour in their generations: their number in the days of David is twenty and two thousand and six hundred. ³And sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah; and sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, Hamishah—all of them heads. ⁴And beside them, by their generations, of the house of their fathers, are troops of the host of battle, thirty and six thousand, for they multiplied wives and sons; ⁵and their brethren of all the families of Issachar are mighty of valour, eighty and seven thousand, all have their genealogy. ⁶Of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. ⁷And sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of a house of fathers, mighty of valour, with their genealogy, twenty and two thousand, and thirty and four. ⁸And sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezar, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are sons of Becher, ⁹with their genealogy, after their generations, heads of a house of their fathers, mighty of valour, twenty thousand and two hundred. ¹⁰And sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹All these are sons of Jediael, even heads of the fathers, mighty in valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to the host for battle. ¹²And Shuppim and Huppim are sons of Ir; Hushim son of Aher. ¹³Sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah. ¹⁴Sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom Jaladah his Aramaean concubine bare, with Machir father of Gilead. ¹⁵And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim, and the name of the one is Maachah, and the name of the second Zelophehad, and Zelophehad hath daughters. ¹⁶And Maachah wife of Machir beareth a son and calleth his name Peresh, and the name of his brother is Sheresh, and his sons are Ulam and Rakem. ¹⁷And son of Ulam: Bedan. These are sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh. ¹⁸And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. ¹⁹And the sons of Shemida are Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

²⁰And sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, ²¹and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead; and slain them have men of Gath who are born in the land, because they came down to take their cattle. ²²And Ephraim their father mourneth many days, and his brethren come in to comfort him, ²³and he goeth in unto his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Beriah, because in evil had been his house,— ²⁴and his daughter is Sherah, and she buildeth Beth-Horon, the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-Sherah— ²⁵and Rephah is his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, ²⁶Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ²⁷Non his son, Jehoshua his son. ²⁸And their possession and their dwellings are Beth-El and its small towns, and to the east Naaran, and…