1. Now David was old and full of days when he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
2. So he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites.
3. The Levites from thirty years old and up were counted, and their head count of men was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Twenty-four thousand of these, David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord; six thousand shall be officers and judges,
5. four thousand shall be gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”
6. David assigned them to divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. From the Gershonites:Ladan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Ladan werefirst Jehiel, then Zetham and Joel, three in all.
9. The sons of Shimei wereShelomith, Haziel, and Haran, three.These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.
10. The sons of Shimei wereJahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah.These four were the sons of Shimei.
11. Now Jahath was the first and Ziza the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so they were counted as one unit for their father’s house.
12. The sons of Kohath wereAmram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four in all.
13. The sons of Amram wereAaron and Moses,but Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to offer sacrifices before the Lord, to minister to Him, and to bless in His name forever.
14. As for Moses, the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
15. The sons of Moses wereGershom and Eliezer.
16. The son of Gershom wasShubael the chief.
17. The son of Eliezer wasRehabiah the chief.Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18. The son of Izhar wasShelomith the chief.