1. When David had grown old and was near the end of his days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
2. He then gathered together all the officials of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.
3. The Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their total number was found to be thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of these, twenty-four thousand were to direct the service of the house of the Lord, six thousand were to be officials and judges,
5. four thousand were to be gatekeepers, and four thousand were to praise the Lord with the instruments which [David] had devised for praise.