1 Chronicles 24:24-31

24 The sons of `Uzzi'el, Mikhah; of the sons of Mikhah, Shamir.

25 The brother of Mikhah, Yishshiyah; of the sons of Yishshiyah, Zekharyah.

26 The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi; the sons of Ya`aziyahu: Beno.

27 The sons of Merari: of Ya`aziyahu, Beno, and Shoham, and Zakkur, and Ibri.

28 Of Machli: El`azar, who had no sons.

29 Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Yerachme'el.

30 The sons of Mushi: Machli, and `Eder, and Yerimot. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses.

31 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aharon in the presence of David the king, and Tzadok, and Achimelekh, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Kohanim and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

1 Chronicles 24:24-31 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 24

This chapter relates the distribution David made of the priests into twenty four classes or courses, and which were observed by lot, and each course had an head or principal man over it, 1Ch 24:1-19 and of a like distribution of the Levites into the same number of courses, to attend the priests in theirs, 1Ch 24:20-31.