1 These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the Priestes office. 3 And Dauid distributed them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their offices in their ministration. 4 And there were found more of the sonnes of Eleazar by the number of men, then of the sonnes of Ithamar. and they deuided them, to wit, among the sonnes of Eleazar, sixteene heads, according to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye sonnes of Ithamar, according to the housholde of their fathers, eight. 5 Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of God were of the sonnes of Eleazar and of the sonnes of Ithamar. 6 And Shemaiah the sonne of Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Leuites, one familie being reserued for Eleazar, and another reserued for Ithamar. 7 And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib, and the second to Iedaiah, 8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, 9 The fifth to Malchiiah, the sixt to Miiamin, 10 The seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah, 11 The ninth to Ieshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, 12 The eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelft to Iakim, 13 The thirteenth to Huppa, the fouretenth to Ieshebeab, 14 The fiftenth to Bilgah, the sixtenth to Immer, 15 The seuententh to Hezir, the eightenth to Happizzer, 16 The ninetenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Iehezekel, 17 The one and twentie to Iachin, the two and twentie to Gamul, 18 The three and twentie to Deliah, the foure and twentie to Maaziah. 19 These were their orders according to their offices, when they entred into the house of the Lord according to their custome vnder the hande of Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him. 20 And of the sonnes of Leui that remained of the sonnes of Amram, was Shubael, of the sonnes of Shubael, Iedeiah, 21 Of Rehabiah. euen of the sonnes of Rehabiah, the first Isshiiah, 22 Of Izhari, Shelomoth, of the sonnes of Shelomoth, Iahath, 23 And his sonnes Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the thirde, and Iekameam the fourth, 24 The sonne of Vzziel was Michah, ye sonne of Michah was Shamir, 25 The brother of Michah was Isshiiah, the sonne of Isshiiah, Zechariah, 26 The sonnes of Merari, were Mahli and Mushi, the sonne of Iaaziiah was Beno, 27 The sonnes of Merari of Iahaziah were Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur and Ibri. 28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, which had no sonnes. 29 Of Kish. the sonne of Kish was Ierahmeel, 30 And the sonnes of Mushi were Mahli, and Eder, and Ierimoth: these were sonnes of the Leuites after the houshold of their fathers. 31 And these also cast lots with their brethren the sonnes of Aaron before King Dauid, and Zadok and Ahimelech and the chiefe fathers of the Priests, and of the Leuites, euen the chiefe of the families against their yonger brethren.
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Ahimelech
Named with Zadok as a priest in David's administration and called the son of Abiathar.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 18:16; 1 Chronicles 24:3
Amariah
Second of the sons of Hebron.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:19; 1 Chronicles 24:23
Beno
Listed among the sons of Jaaziah of the Merarites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 24:26; 1 Chronicles 24:27
Bilgah
Eder
Son of Mushi the Merarite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:23; 1 Chronicles 24:30
Eleazar
Son of Mahli who died without sons; his daughters were married by their cousins, the sons of Kish.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:21; 1 Chronicles 23:22; 1 Chronicles 24:28
Eliashib
Gamul
Hakkoz
Harim
Hezir
Ibri
Listed among the sons of Jaaziah of the Merarites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 24:27
Immer
Kish
Son of Mahli whose sons married the daughters of his brother Eleazar; his son was Jerahmeel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:21; 1 Chronicles 23:22; 1 Chronicles 24:29
Maaziah
Mahli
Mahli is named as the son of Mushi in Ethan's Merarite ancestry (1 Chronicles 6:44-47).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 6:47; 1 Chronicles 23:23; 1 Chronicles 24:30
Pethahiah
Rehabiah
First descendant of Eliezer son of Moses; Eliezer had no other sons but Rehabiah's sons were very numerous.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:17; 1 Chronicles 24:21; 1 Chronicles 26:25
Seorim
Shamir
Shebuel
Descendant of Gershom son of Moses and the first among his descendants; he was the officer in charge of the treasuries (24:20 calls a Shubael a son of Amram whose son was…
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:16; 1 Chronicles 24:20; 1 Chronicles 26:24
Shecaniah
Shelomith
First of the sons of Izhar; called Shelomoth the Izharite in 24:22, whose son was Jahath.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 23:18; 1 Chronicles 24:22
Shemaiah
Levite scribe who recorded the names of the priestly divisions in the presence of the king and the officers.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 24:6
Shoham
Listed among the sons of Jaaziah of the Merarites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 24:27
Zaccur
Listed among the sons of Jaaziah of the Merarites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 24:27
Zechariah
Son of Isshiah, the brother of Micah, among the sons of Uzziel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 24:25
Cross references (25)
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- 1 1 Chronicles 23:6; Exodus 6:23; Numbers 26:60; Exodus 28:1; 1 Chronicles 6:3
- 2 Leviticus 10:2; Numbers 3:4; Numbers 26:61; Exodus 24:9; Numbers 16:39–40
- 3 2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:31; 2 Samuel 20:25; 1 Kings 2:35; 1 Chronicles 16:39
- 4 1 Chronicles 15:6–12; Numbers 25:11–13; 1 Chronicles 23:24
- 5 1 Chronicles 24:31; Matthew 26:3; 1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 11:11; 2 Chronicles 35:8
- 6 1 Chronicles 18:16; 1 Chronicles 23:24; Ezra 7:6; Matthew 8:19; Matthew 23:1–2
- 7 Ezra 2:36; 1 Chronicles 9:10; Nehemiah 11:10; Nehemiah 12:19; Nehemiah 7:39
- 8 Ezra 2:39; Nehemiah 12:15; Ezra 10:21; Nehemiah 7:35
- 9 Nehemiah 12:17
- 10 Luke 1:5; Nehemiah 12:4; Nehemiah 12:17
- 11 Ezra 2:36; Nehemiah 7:39; Nehemiah 12:10
- 12 Nehemiah 12:10
- 14 Ezra 10:20; Nehemiah 7:40; Ezra 2:37
- 19 1 Chronicles 9:25; Hebrews 7:11; 1 Corinthians 14:40; 1 Chronicles 24:1; 2 Chronicles 23:4
- 20 1 Chronicles 26:24; 1 Chronicles 23:12–14; 1 Chronicles 6:18; 1 Chronicles 23:16
- 21 1 Chronicles 23:17; 1 Chronicles 26:25
- 22 1 Chronicles 23:18; Numbers 3:27; 1 Chronicles 26:26; Numbers 3:19; Exodus 6:21
- 23 1 Chronicles 23:19; 1 Chronicles 26:31
- 24 1 Chronicles 23:20
- 25 1 Chronicles 23:20; 1 Chronicles 15:20; 1 Chronicles 15:18
- 26 1 Chronicles 23:21
- 27 1 Chronicles 6:19; Numbers 3:20; Exodus 6:19; 1 Chronicles 23:21
- 28 1 Chronicles 23:22
- 30 1 Chronicles 23:23; 1 Chronicles 6:47
- 31 1 Chronicles 24:5–6; 1 Chronicles 26:13; 1 Chronicles 25:8; Numbers 26:56
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