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1 Chronicles 26:5-20 World English Bible (WEB)

5. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

6. Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.

7. The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

8. All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

9. Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.

10. Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

11. Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.

12. Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.

13. They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

14. The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

15. To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.

16. To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.

17. Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.

18. For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

19. These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

20. Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

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