1 Chronicles 23 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - 1 Chronicles) Free Bible Online

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

2 - He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

3 - The Levites were counted 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 LORD's house, 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, Zetham, and Joel, three.

9 - The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' households of Ladan.

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

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

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