5. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God had blessed him.
6. And to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who were rulers in their father's house; for they were mighty men of valour.
7. The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, and Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu and Semachiah.
8. All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men in strength for the service, were sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
9. --And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, men of valour, eighteen.
10. --And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the head, for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the head;
11. Hilkijah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
12. Among these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, among the head-men, as to the charges together with their brethren, for performing the service in the house of Jehovah.
13. And they cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.
14. And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah; and they cast lots for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, and his lot came out northward;
15. to Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
16. To Shuppim and Hosah westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the ascent, watch against watch.
17. Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and in the storehouse two and two.
18. At the portico westward, four at the causeway, two at the portico.
19. These are the divisions of the doorkeepers among the sons of the Korahites and among the sons of Merari.