1 Chronicles 23
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1 Chronicles 23
1¶ So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon, his son, king over Israel.
2And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and the Levites,
3were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
4Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were officers and judges;
5moreover, four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which David had made to praise therewith.
6And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7The sons of Gershon: Laadan and Shimei.
8The sons of Laadan: Jehiel, the first, Zetham and Joel, three.
9The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
10And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
11And Jahath was the first, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not multiply in many sons; therefore, they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.
12The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
13The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated, that he should be dedicated to the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister unto him and to bless in his name for ever.
14And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were counted in the tribe of Levi.
15The sons of Moses were Gershon and Eliezer.
16Of the sons of Gershon, Shebuel was the chief.
17And the son of Eliezer was Rehabiah, the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18The sons of Izhar: Shelomith, the chief.
19The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, the first, Amariah, the second, Jahaziel, the third, and Jekameam, the fourth.
20The sons of Uzziel: Michah, the first, and Jesiah, the second.
21The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
22And Eleazar died and had no sons, but daughters and their brethren, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.
23The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
24¶ These are the sons of Levi after the houses of their fathers, even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did work in the ministry of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and upward.
25For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given rest unto his people, and he shall dwell in Jerusalem for ever.
26And also unto the Levites, they shall no longer carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for its ministry.
27For by the last words of David, the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above.
28And their station was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and in the work of the ministry of the house of God,
29both for the showbread and for the fine flour for the sacrifice and for the unleavened cakes and for that which is baked in the pan and for that which is fried and for all manner of measure and size,
30and to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise in the evening;
31and to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord in the sabbaths, in the new moons and solemnities, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the Lord.
32And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, in the ministry of the house of the Lord.
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The Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) by Ransom Press International