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, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
4. Of which, twenty and four thousand were to look after the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
5. Moreover four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, for praise.
6. And David divided them into divisions among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonites were, Ladan, and Shimei.
8. The sons of Ladan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.