1 Chronicles 23:1-11 ▼

1 And David was old and satisfied with days, and he causes his son Solomon to reign over Israel,

2 and gathers all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;

3 and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, for their counted heads, is of thirty-eight thousand mighty men.

4 Of these, twenty-four thousand [are] to preside over the work of the house of YHWH, and six thousand officers and judges,

5 and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to YHWH, “with instruments that I made for praising,” [says David.]

6 And David distributes them into divisions of the sons of Levi—of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

7 Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.

8 Sons of Laadan: the head [is] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel—three.

9 Sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran—three; these [are] heads of the fathers of Laadan.

10 And sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these [are] the four sons of Shimei.

11 And Jahath is the head, and Zizah the second, and Jeush and Beriah have not multiplied sons, and they become the house of a father by one numbering.