The gatekeepers of the temple
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📚Concerning the divisions of the gatekeepers 📖: of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Korah, of the sons of Asaph. 2 📚And the sons of Meshelemiah were Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. 4 📚And the sons of Obed-Edom 📖 were Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth, 5 📚Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth; for God had blessed him.
6 📚Also sons were born to his son Shemaiah, who ruled throughout the house of their father, for they were mighty men of valour. 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were strong men, Elihu and Semachiah. 8 📚All these of the sons of Obed-Edom. They and their sons and their brothers, able men with strength for the service, were sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
9 📚And Meshelemiah had eighteen sons and brothers, strong men.
10 📚Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, his father made him chief), 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
12 📚Among these were the divisions of the gatekeepers, among the chief men, having duties like their relatives to minister in the house of the LORD. 13 📚And they cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for each gate.
14 And the lot for the east gate fell to Shelemiah 📖. Then they cast lots for his son Zechariah, a wise counsellor; and his lot came out for the north gate; 15 📚to Obed-Edom for the south gate; and to his sons the lot fell for the storehouse. 16 📚To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came out for the west gate, with the Shallecheth gate, on the highway which ascends there, watch corresponded to watch.
17 📚Six Levites were on the east, four a day on the north, four a day on the south, and two by two at the storehouse. 18 📚At Parbar on the west, four were at the highway, and two at Parbar.
19 📚These are the divisions of the gatekeepers among the sons of Korah, and among the sons of Merari.
Various officials
20 📚And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things 📖.
21 📚As concerning the sons of Laadan, the sons of Laadan the Gershonite, chief fathers of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli, 22 📚and the sons of Jehieli: Zetam and his brother Joel, who were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
23 📚As for the Amramites and the Izharites the Hebronites and the Uzzielites:
24 📚Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was in charge of the treasures. 25 📚And his brethren by Eliezer were Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son. 26 📚This Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated. 27 📚They dedicated these things from the plunder won in battles, to maintain the house of the LORD. 28 📚And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated (and whoever had dedicated anything), it was under the hand of Shelomith and of his brethren.
29 📚Of the Izharites, Kenaniah and his sons were for outside responsibilities over Israel, as officials and judges.
30 📚And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, a thousand seven hundred strong men, were officials among the Israelites on this, the west, side of the Jordan in all the LORD’s appointed duties, and in the service of the king. 31 📚Among the Hebronites Jerijah was the chief, according to the genealogies of his fathers households among the Hebronites. In the fortieth year of the reign of David these records were sought out, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer in Gilead. 32 📚And his brethren were two thousand seven hundred strong men, chief fathers, whom King David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every duty relating to God and the affairs of the king.