1. So when David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
2. And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
3. Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of these, twenty-four thousand were to look after the work of the house of the Lord, six thousand were officers and judges,
5. four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with musical instruments, “which I made,” said David, “for giving praise.”
6. Also David separated them into divisions among the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Laadan: the first Jehiel, then Zetham and Joel—three in all.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran—three in all. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Laadan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These were the four sons of Shimei.