1 Chronicles 23:1-7 ▼

1 When David was old and full of days, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.

2 Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites.

3 The Levites thirty years old or more were counted; the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand by headcount.

4 “Of these,” David said, “twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work on the LORD’s temple, six thousand are to be officers and judges,

5 four thousand are to be gatekeepers, and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the instruments that I have made for worship.”

6 Then David divided them into divisions according to Levi’s sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

7 The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.