1. WHEN DAVID was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
2. David assembled all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and Levites.
3. The Levites thirty years old and upward numbered, man by man, 38,000,
4. Of whom 24,000 were to oversee the work of the house of the Lord and 6,000 were to be officers and judges.
5. And, said David, 4,000 shall be gatekeepers and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments which I made for praise.
6. And David organized them in sections according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonites: Ladan (Libni) and Shimei.
8. The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel–three in all.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran–three in all. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina (Zizah), Jeush, and Beriah. Of these four sons of Shimei,
11. Jahath was chief and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons [not enough for a father's house or clan]; so they were counted together as one father's house.
12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel–four in all.
13. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to sanctify him as most holy and to consecrate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever might burn incense before the Lord, minister to Him, and bless in His name [and the character which that name denotes] forever.