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, and the priests and the Levites,
3. were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were officers and judges;
5. moreover, four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which David had made to praise therewith.
6. And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. The sons of Gershon: Laadan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Laadan: Jehiel, the first, Zetham and Joel, three.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
11. And Jahath was the first, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not multiply in many sons; therefore, they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.
12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.