1 Chronicles 23:1-11 ▼

1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

2 And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

3 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

4 David said, |Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; six thousand were officers and judges;

5 four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.|

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

7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the ancestral houses of Ladan.

10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.