1 Crônicas 23

1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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

3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

4 Of which, twenty and four thousand

5 Moreover four thousand

6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,

7 Of the Gershonites

8 The sons of Laadan; the chief

9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These

10 And the sons of Shimei

11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to

12 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the

14 Now

15 The sons of Moses

16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel

17 And the sons of Eliezer

18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.

19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.

21 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.

22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.

23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

24 These

25 For David said, The

26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no

27 For by the last words of David the Levites

28 Because their office

29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for

30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the

31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the

32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy