1 Chronicles 23 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Solomon Reigns

1Ch 23:1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Shlomo his son king over Yisra'el.

1Ch 23:2He gathered together all the princes of Yisra'el, with the Kohanim and the Levites.

Offices of the Levites

1Ch 23:3The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

1Ch 23:4

1Ch 23:4Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges;

1Ch 23:5

1Ch 23:5and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

1Ch 23:6

1Ch 23:6David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.

Gershonites

1Ch 23:7

1Ch 23:7Of the Gershoni: La`dan and Shim`i.

1Ch 23:8

1Ch 23:8The sons of La`dan: Yechi'el the chief, and Zetham, and Yo'el, three.

1Ch 23:9

1Ch 23:9The sons of Shim`i: Shelomit, and Hazi'el, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of La`dan.

1Ch 23:10

1Ch 23:10The sons of Shim`i: Yachat, Zina, and Ye`ush, and Beri`ah. These four were the sons of Shim`i.

1Ch 23:11

1Ch 23:11Yachat was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Ye`ush and Beri`ah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.

Kohathites

1Ch 23:12

1Ch 23:12The sons of Kehat: `Amram, Yitzhar, Hevron, and `Uzzi'el, four.

1Ch 23:13

1Ch 23:13The sons of `Amram: Aharon and Moshe; and Aharon was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

1Ch 23:14

1Ch 23:14But as for Moshe the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

1Ch 23:15

1Ch 23:15The sons of Moshe: Gershom and Eli`ezer.

1Ch 23:16

1Ch 23:16The sons of Gershom: Shevu'el the chief.

1Ch 23:17

1Ch 23:17The sons of Eli`ezer were: Rechavyah the chief; and Eli`ezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rechavyah were very many.

1Ch 23:18

1Ch 23:18The sons of Yitzhar: Shelomit the chief.

1Ch 23:19

1Ch 23:19The sons of Hevron: Yeriyahu the chief, Amaryah the second, Yachazi'el the third, and Yekam`am the fourth.

1Ch 23:20

1Ch 23:20The sons of `Uzzi'el: Mikhah the chief, and Yishshiyah the second.

Merarites

1Ch 23:21

1Ch 23:21The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. The sons of Machli: El`azar and Kish.

1Ch 23:22

1Ch 23:22El`azar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them to wife.

1Ch 23:23

1Ch 23:23The sons of Mushi: Machli, and `Eder, and Yeremot, three.

Duties Revised

1Ch 23:24

1Ch 23:24These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those of those who were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.

1Ch 23:25

1Ch 23:25For David said, the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Yerushalayim forever:

1Ch 23:26

1Ch 23:26and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of it.

1Ch 23:27

1Ch 23:27For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.

1Ch 23:28

1Ch 23:28For their office was to wait on the sons of Aharon for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;

1Ch 23:29

1Ch 23:29for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size;

1Ch 23:30

1Ch 23:30and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;

1Ch 23:31

1Ch 23:31and to offer all burnt offerings to the LORD, on the Shabbatot, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before the LORD;

1Ch 23:32

1Ch 23:32and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aharon their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.

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