1 Chronicles 24 Interlinear

but nadab and abihu died before their father and had no children therefore eleazar and ithamar executed the priests office

and david distributed them both zadok of the sons of eleazar and ahimelech of the sons of ithamar according to their offices in their service

and there were more chief men found of the sons of eleazar than of the sons of ithamar and thus were they divided among the sons of eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers and eight among the sons of ithamar according to the house of their fathers

thus were they divided by lot one sort with another for the governors of the sanctuary and governors of the house of god were of the sons of eleazar and of the sons of ithamar

and shemaiah the son of nethaneel the scribe one of the levites wrote them before the king and the princes and zadok the priest and ahimelech the son of abiathar and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and levites one principal household being taken for eleazar and one taken for ithamar

now the first lot came forth to jehoiarib the second to jedaiah

the third to harim the fourth to seorim

the fifth to malchijah the sixth to mijamin

the seventh to hakkoz the eighth to abijah

the ninth to jeshua the tenth to shecaniah

the eleventh to eliashib the twelfth to jakim

the thirteenth to huppah the fourteenth to jeshebeab

the fifteenth to bilgah the sixteenth to immer

the seventeenth to hezir the eighteenth to aphses

the nineteenth to pethahiah the twentieth to jehezekel

the one and twentieth to jachin the two and twentieth to gamul

the three and twentieth to delaiah the four and twentieth to maaziah

these were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the lord according to their manner under aaron their father as the lord god of israel had commanded

and the rest of the sons of levi were these of the sons of amram shubael of the sons of shubael jehdeiah

concerning rehabiah of the sons of rehabiah the first was isshiah

of the izharites shelomoth of the sons of shelomoth jahath

and the sons of hebron jeriah the first amariah the second jahaziel the third jekameam the fourth

of the sons of uzziel michah of the sons of michah shamir

the brother of michah was isshiah of the sons of isshiah zechariah

the sons of merari were mahli and mushi the sons of jaaziah beno

the sons of merari by jaaziah beno and shoham and zaccur and ibri

of mahli came eleazar who had no sons

concerning kish the son of kish was jerahmeel

the sons also of mushi mahli and eder and jerimoth these were the sons of the levites after the house of their fathers

these likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of aaron in the presence of david the king and zadok and ahimelech and the chief of the fathers of the priests and levites even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren