1   The divisions of the door-keepers: Korahites: Meshelemiah son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph. ^note 2   Sons of Meshelemiah: Zechariah the eldest, Jediael the second, 3   Zebediah the third, Jathniel the fourth, Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. 4   Sons of Obed-edom: Shemaiah the eldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, 5   Nethaneel the fifth, Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth (for God had blessed him). 6   Shemaiah, his son, was the father of sons who had authority in their family, for they were men of great ability. 7   Sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, Elzabad and ^note his brothers Elihu and Semachiah, men of ability. 8   All these belonged to the family of Obed-edom; they, their sons and brothers, were men of ability, fit for service in the temple; total: sixty-two. 9   Sons and brothers of Meshelemiah, all men of ability, eighteen. 10   Sons of Hosah, a Merarite: Shimri the chief (he was not the eldest, but his father had made him chief), 11   Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth. Total of Hosah's sons and brothers: thirteen.

12   The male heads of families constituted the divisions of the door-keepers; their duty was to serve in the house of the Lord side by side with their kinsmen. 13   Young and old, family by family, they cast lots for the gates. 14   The lot for the east gate fell to Shelemiah; then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a prudent counsellor, and he was allotted the north gate. 15   To Obed-edom was allotted the south gate, and the gate-house to his sons. 16   Hosah ^note was allotted the west gate, together with the Shallecheth gate on the ascending causeway. Guard corresponded to guard. 17   Six Levites were on duty daily on the east side, four on the

The temple and its organization north and four on the south, and two at each gatehouse; 18   at the western colonnade there were four at the causeway and two at the colonnade itself. 19   These were the divisions of the door-keepers, Korahites and Merarites.

20   Fellow-Levites ^note were in charge of the stores of the house of God and of the stores of sacred gifts. 21   Of the children of Laadan, descendants of the Gershonite line through Laadan, heads of families in the group of Laadan the Gershonite, 22   Jehiel and ^note his brothers Zetham and Joel were in charge of the stores of the house of the Lord. 23   Of the families of Amram, 24   Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel, Shubael ^note son of Gershom, son of Moses, was overseer of the stores. 25   The line of Eliezer his brother: ^note his son Rehabiah, his son Isaiah, his son Joram, his son Zichri, and his son Shelomoth. 26   This Shelomoth and his kinsmen were in charge of all the stores of the sacred gifts dedicated by David the king, the heads of families, the officers over units of a thousand and a hundred, and other officers of the army. 27   They had dedicated some of the spoils taken in the wars for the upkeep of the house of the Lord. 28   Everything which Samuel the seer, Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah had dedicated, in short every sacred gift, was under the charge of Shelomoth and his kinsmen. 29   Of the family of Izhar, Kenaniah and his sons acted as clerks and magistrates in the secular affairs of Israel. 30   Of the family of Hebron, Hashabiah and his kinsmen, men of ability to the number of seventeen hundred, had the oversight of Israel west of the Jordan, both in the work of the Lord and in the service of the king. 31   Also of the family of Hebron, Jeriah was the chief. (In the fortieth year of David's reign search was made in the family histories of the Hebronites, and men of great ability were found among them at Jazer in Gilead.) 32   His kinsmen, all men of ability, two thousand seven hundred of them, heads of families, were charged by King David with the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in religious and civil affairs alike.

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