1 Chronicles 23:1-22 ▼

1 So when Dauid was olde and full of dayes, he made Solomon his sonneking ouer Israel.

2 And then he gathered together all the lordes of Israel, with the priestes and the Leuites.

3 And the Leuites were numbred from the age of thirtie yeres and aboue: and the number and summe of them was thirtie and eyght thousande men.

4 Of which twentie and foure thousand were set to further the worke of the house of the Lorde: and sixe thousande were officers and iudges.

5 Foure thousande were porters, & foure thousand praysed the Lorde with such instrumentes as was made to prayse withall.

6 And so Dauid put an order among them deuiding them, in partes: Of the children of Leui, Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

7 Of the Gersonites was Laadan, and Semei.

8 The sounes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, Zethan, and Ioel, three.

9 The sonnes of Semei: Selomith, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the auncient fathers of Laadan.

10 And the sonnes of Semei: were, Iahath, Zina, Ieus, & Beria: these foure were the sonnes of Semei.

11 And Iahath was the chiefe, Ziza the seconde: but Ieus, and Beria had not many sonnes, therfore they were in one reckening according to their fathers housholde, reckened for one auncient housholde.

12 The sonnes of Caath: Amram, Izahar, Hebron, and Uzziel, foure.

13 The sonnes of Amram: Aaron, and Moyses: And Aaron was separated to haue the rule of the holy thinges in the place most holy, he & his sonnes for euer, and to burne incense before the Lorde, and to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his name for euer.

14 Moyses also the man of God, and his children, were named with the tribe of Leui.

15 The sonnes of Moyses: Gerso, & Eliezer.

16 Of the sonnes of Gersom, Sebuel was the chiefe.

17 The sonnes of Eliezer, Rehabia the chiefe: And Eliezer had none other sonnes, but the sonnes of Rehabia were verie many.

18 The sonnes of Izahar, Selomith the chiefe.

19 The sonnes of Hebron, Ieriahu the first, Amaria the seconde, Iahaziel the thirde, and Iermaam the fourth.

20 The sonnes of Uzziel: Micha the first, and Iesia the seconde.

21 The sonnes of Merati: Mahli, & Musi. The sonnes of Mahli: Eleazar and Cis.

22 And Eleazar dyed, and had no sonnes, but daughters: and their brethren the sonnes of Cis toke them.