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So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
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And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their head count, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand,
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of whom twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges
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Moreover four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments "which I made," said David, "to praise therewith."
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And David divided them into divisions among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei.
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The sons of Laadan: the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.