1 Chronicles 24:1-18 ▼

1 And the sons of Aaron—these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

2 And Nadab and Abihu died before the face of their father, and there were unto them no children, and Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

3 And David divided them, and Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their office in their service.

4 And there were found of the sons of Eleazar more for heads of the mighty men than of the sons of Ithamar, and they were divided. Among the sons of Eleazar, heads for a house of fathers, sixteen. And among the sons of Ithamar, for a house of their fathers, eight.

5 And they were divided by lot, these with these; for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God from the sons of Eleazar and from the sons of Ithamar.

6 And Shemaiah son of Nethanel the scribe of the Levites wrote them down before the face of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of fathers of the priests and the Levites—one house of a father taken for Eleazar, and one being taken possession of for Ithamar.

7 And the first lot fell to Jehoiarib, to Jedaiah the second,

8 to Harim the third, to Seorim the fourth,

9 to Malchijah the fifth, to Mijamin the sixth,

10 to Koz the seventh, to Abijah the eighth,

11 to Jeshua the ninth, to Shecaniah the tenth,

12 to Eliashib the eleventh, to Jakim the twelfth,

13 to Huppah the thirteenth, to Jeshebeab the fourteenth,

14 to Bilgah the fifteenth, to Immer the sixteenth,

15 to Hezir the seventeenth, to Happizzez the eighteenth,

16 to Pethahiah the nineteenth, to Ezekiel the twentieth,

17 to Jachin the one and twentieth, to Gamul the two and twentieth,

18 to Delaiah the three and twentieth, to Maaziah the four and twentieth.