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¹ Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons ofThis Asaph was not the notable musician, but another of that name also called Ebiasaph in (1Ch_6:23, 1Ch_6:37, 1Ch_9:19) and also Jasaph.Asaph.

² And the sonnes of Meshelemiah, Zechariah the eldest, Iediael the seconde, Zebadiah the third, Iathniel the fourth,

³ Elam the fift, Ichohanan the sixt, & Eliehoenai the seuenth.

⁴ And the sonnes of Obed Edom, Shemaiah the eldest, Iehozabad the second, Ioah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fift,

⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for GodIn giving him many children.blessed him.

⁶ Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, thatOr, like their father's house, meaning, worthy men and valiant.ruled throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valour.

⁷ The sonnes of Shemaiah were Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad and his brethren, strong men: Elihu also, and Semachiah.

⁸ All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men forFit to serve the office of the portership.strength for the service, [were] threescore and two of Obededom.

⁹ And of Meshelemiah sonnes and brethren, eighteene mightie men.

¹⁰ And of Hosah of the sonnes of Merari, the sonnes were Shuri the chiefe, and (though he was not the eldest, yet his father made him the chiefe)

¹¹ Helkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, & Zechariah the fourth: all the sonnes & the brethren of Hosa were thirteene.

¹² Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, [having] wards oneAccording to their turns as well the one as the other.against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.

¹³ And they cast lottes both small and great for the house of their fathers, for euery gate.

¹⁴ And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son,One expert and fit to keep that gate.a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

¹⁵ To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house ofThis was a house where they used to resort to consult things concerning the temple, as a convocation house.Asuppim.

¹⁶ To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with the gateAt which they used to cast out the filth of the city.Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

¹⁷ Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward AsuppimMeaning two one day and two another.two [and] two.

¹⁸ AtWhich was a house in which they kept the instruments of the temple.Parbar westward, four at the causeway, [and] two at Parbar.

¹⁹ These are the diuisions of the porters of the sonnes of Kore, and of the sonnes of Merari.

²⁰ And of the Leuites. Ahiiah was ouer the treasures of the house of God, and ouer the treasures of the dedicate things.

²¹ Of the sonnes of Laadan the sonnes of the Gershunnites descending of Laadan, the chiefe fathers of Laadan were Gershunni & Iehieli.

²² The sonnes of Iehieli were Zethan & Ioel his brother, appoynted ouer the treasures of the house of the Lord.

²³ Of theThese also had charge over the treasures.Amramites, [and] the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the Uzzielites:

²⁴ And Shebuel the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Moses, a ruler ouer the treasures.

²⁵ And of his brethren which came of Eliezer, was Rehabiah his sonne, & Ieshaiah his sonne, and Ioram his sonne, and Zichri his sonne, and Shelomith his sonne.

²⁶ Which Shelomith and his brethren [were] over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, hadAccording as the Lord commanded, (Num_31:28).dedicated.

²⁷ (For of the battels and of the spoyles they did dedicate to maintaine the house of the Lord)

²⁸ And al that Samuel the Seer had dedicate and Saul the sonne of Kish and Abner the sonne of Ner, & Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, & whosoeuer had dedicate any thing, it was vnder the hand of Shelomith, and his brethren.

²⁹ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward businessMeaning of things that were out of the city.over Israel, for officers and judges.

³⁰ [And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service ofThat is, for the king's house.the king.

³¹ Among the Hebronites was Iediiah the chiefest, euen the Hebronites by his generations according to the families; in the fourtieth yere of the reigne of Dauid they were sought for: and there were founde among them men of actiuitie at Iazer in Gilead.

³² And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining toBoth in spiritual and temporal things.God, and affairs of the king.