1 Chronicles 23:1-11 ▼

1 When David had grown old and was near the end of his days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

2 He then gathered together all the officials of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

3 The Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their total number was found to be thirty-eight thousand.

4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to direct the service of the house of the LORD, six thousand were to be officials and judges,

5 four thousand were to be gatekeepers, and four thousand were to praise the LORD with the instruments which [David] had devised for praise.

6 David apportioned them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

7 To the Gershonites belonged Ladan and Shimei.

8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, then Zetham and Joel; three in all.

9 The sons of Shimei were Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran; three. These were the heads of the families of Ladan.

10 The sons of Shimei were Jahath, Zizah, Jeush, and Beriah; these were the sons of Shimei, four in all.

11 Jahath was the chief and Zizah was second to him; but Jeush and Beriah had few sons, and therefore they were classed as a single family, exercising a single office.