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The divisions of the priests
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📚Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 📚But Nadab and Abihu died 📖 before their father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests. 3 📚And David, with Zadok 📖, of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech, of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their duties in their service. 4 📚And there were more chief men found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and thus they were divided. Among the sons of Eleazar were sixteen chief men of the households of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the households of their fathers. 5 📚Thus they were divided by lot 📖, both of these families; for the officials of the sanctuary, and officials of the house of God, were from the sons of Eleazar and from the sons of Ithamar.
6 📚And Shemaiah, the son of Nethaneel, the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote their names before the king and the leaders and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the heads of the families of the fathers of the priests and Levites, one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
7 📚Now the first lot came out for Jehoiarib, the second for Jedaiah, 8 📚the third for Harim, the fourth for Seorim, 9 📚the fifth for Malchijah, the sixth for Mijamin, 10 📚the seventh for Hakkoz, the eighth for Abijah, 11 📚the ninth for Jeshuah, the tenth for Shecaniah, 12 📚the eleventh for Eliashib, the twelfth for Jakim, 13 the thirteenth for Huppah, the fourteenth for Jeshebeab, 14 📚the fifteenth for Bilgah, the sixteenth for Immer, 15 the seventeenth for Hezir, the eighteenth for Aphses, 16 the nineteenth for Pethahiah, the twentieth for Jehezekel, 17 the twenty-first for Jachim, the twenty-second for Gamul, 18 the twenty-third for Delaiah, the twenty-fourth for Maaziah.
19 📚This was the appointed order for them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, in accordance with their rule handed on by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
24:19 These 24 divisions served one after the other, probably for two weeks at a time. Zechariah the father of John the Baptist was in the eighth division (Luke 1:5, 8, 9), being descended from Abijah.⚜
20 📚And these were the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. 21 📚Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah. 22 📚Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. 23 📚And the sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first 📖, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. 24 📚Of the sons of Uzziel, Michah; of the sons of Michah, Shamir. 25 📚The brother of Michah was Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. 26 📚The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi; the son of Jaaziah, Beno. 27 📚The sons of Merari by Jaaziah, Beno and Shoham and Zaccur and Ibri. 28 📚Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
29 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel. 30 📚And the sons of Mushi, Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites in accordance with the households of their fathers. 31 📚These also cast lots 📖 just as their brethren, the sons of Aaron, did, in the presence of David the king and Zadok and Ahimelech and the heads of the families of the fathers of the priests and Levites, the heads of the fathers’ households just as their younger 📖 brothers.