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And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the rulers, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the rulers of the fathers of the priests and Levites. One father's house was taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

And the first lot came out for Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

For Rehabiah, of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.

And they also made fall lots just as their brothers the sons of Aaron did before the face of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers, for the priests and Levites, eventhe head of the fathers, as well as hisyounger brother.

All these were at the hands of their father for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God, at the hands of the king: Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman.

And they made fall lots for duty, as in the rule , as the small, so the great, the one teaching with the pupil.

And the first lot came out for Asaph, to Joseph: Gedaliah, he was the second; and his brothers and sons, twelve men.

For the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth (for God blessed him).

Also sons were born to Shemaiah, who ruled for the house of their father; for they were mighty warriors.

All these were the sons of Obed-edom. They and their sons and their brothers were mighty men with strength for service. Sixty two were of Obed-edom.

To these were the divisions of the gatekeepers for the heads of the men, having charges like their brothers, to minister in the house of Jehovah.

And he made fall lots; as the small, as the great, for the house of their fathers, for gate and gate.

And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. And for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, they made fall lots; and his lot came out northward;

for the Amramites, for the Izharites, for the Hebronites, for the Uzzielites.

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and for judges.

Of the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brothers, sons of might; a thousand and seven hundred over the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Jehovah, and for the king's service.

Of Hebron: Jerijah the head of the Hebronites, for his generations to his fathers. In the fortieth year of David's reign, they were sought, and were found among them mighty warriors at Jazer of Gilead.

And his brothers, mighty sons, were two thousand, seven hundred heads of the fathers. And King David made them overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh for every matter of God and matter of the king.

And the sons of Israel, according to their number, the heads of the fathers, and commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their scribes who served the king in every matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month for allthe months of the year, the one division had twenty four thousand.