The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is
the altar of burnt offering for Israel. {22:2} David commanded to
gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he
set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God. {22:3}
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the
gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
{22:4} and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of
Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. {22:5} David said,
Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built
for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory
throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So
David prepared abundantly before his death. {22:6} Then he called for
Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Yahweh, the God
of Israel. {22:7} David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in
my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God. {22:8} But the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and
have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because
you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. {22:9} Behold, a
son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give
him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be
Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days:
{22:10} he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son,
and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom over Israel for ever. {22:11} Now, my son, Yahweh be with you;
and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has
spoken concerning you. {22:12} May Yahweh give you discretion and
understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep
the law of Yahweh your God. {22:13} Then shall you prosper, if you
observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses
concerning Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed. {22:14} Now, behold, in my affliction I have
prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold,
and one thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron
without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I
prepared; and you may add to them. {22:15} There are also workmen with
you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all
kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: {22:16} of the
gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number.
Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you. {22:17} David also
commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],
{22:18} Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on
every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my
hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
{22:19} Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your
God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into
the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
{23:1} Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his
son king over Israel. {23:2} He gathered together all the princes of
Israel, with the priests and the Levites. {23:3} The Levites were
numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their
polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. {23:4} Of these,
twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh;
and six thousand were officers and judges; {23:5} and four thousand
were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the
instruments which I made, [said David], for giving praise. {23:6}
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {23:7} Of the Gershonites: Ladan and
Shimei. {23:8} The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and
Joel, three. {23:9} The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and
Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.
{23:10} The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These
four were the sons of Shimei. {23:11} Jahath was the chief, and Zizah
the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they
became a fathers' house in one reckoning. {23:12} The sons of Kohath:
Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. {23:13} The sons of Amram:
Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the
most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before
Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever. {23:14}
But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe
of Levi. {23:15} The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. {23:16} The
sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. {23:17} The sons of Eliezer were:
Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of
Rehabiah were very many. {23:18} The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the
chief. {23:19} The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the
second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. {23:20} The sons
of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second. {23:21} The sons
of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
{23:22} Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their
brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife]. {23:23} The sons of
Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. {23:24} These were the
sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the
fathers' houses of those who were counted individually, in the number
of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house
of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward. {23:25} For David said,
Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells
in Jerusalem forever: {23:26} and also the Levites shall no more have
need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of
it. {23:27} For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were
numbered, from twenty years old and upward. {23:28} For their office
was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of
Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of
all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;
{23:29} for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal
offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in
the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and
size; {23:30} and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh,
and likewise in the evening; {23:31} and to offer all burnt offerings
to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts,
in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually
before Yahweh; {23:32} and that they should keep the charge of the
tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of
the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of
Yahweh.
{24:1} These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of
Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {24:2} But Nadab and
Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar
and Ithamar executed the priest's office. {24:3} David with Zadok of
the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided
them according to their ordering in their service. {24:4} There were
more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of
Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there
were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar,
according to their fathers' houses, eight. {24:5} Thus were they
divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the
sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the
sons of Ithamar. {24:6} Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who
was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the
princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and
the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites;
one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
{24:7} Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to
Jedaiah, {24:8} the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, {24:9} the
fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, {24:10} the seventh to
Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, {24:11} the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth
to Shecaniah, {24:12} the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
{24:13} the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, {24:14}
the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, {24:15} the
seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, {24:16} the
nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, {24:17} the
twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, {24:18} the
twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. {24:19} This
was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of
Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their
father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him. {24:20} Of
the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the
sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. {24:21} Of Rehabiah: of the sons of
Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. {24:22} Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of
the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. {24:23} The sons [of Hebron]: Jeriah
[the chief], Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the
fourth. {24:24} The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah,
Shamir. {24:25} The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah,
Zechariah. {24:26} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of
Jaaziah: Beno. {24:27} The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and
Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. {24:28} Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no
sons. {24:29} Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. {24:30} The sons
of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the
Levites after their fathers' houses. {24:31} These likewise cast lots
even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the
king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses]
of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief
even as those of his younger brother.
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