8. All these were sons of Obed-edom [in whose house the ark was kept], with their sons and brethren, strong and able men for the service–sixty-two in all. [I Chron. 13:13, 14.]
9. Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong and able men–eighteen in all.
10. Also Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
11. Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen in all.
12. Of these were the divisions of the gatekeepers, even of the chief men, having duties, as did their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.
13. And they cast lots by fathers' houses, small and great alike, for every gate.
14. The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, and his lot came out for the north.
15. To Obed-edom it came out for the south, and to his sons the storehouse was allotted.
16. To Shuppim and Hosah the lot fell for the west, by the refuse gate that goes into the ascending highway, post opposite post.