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Now David was old and full of days; and 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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And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
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Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges
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and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise therewith.
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And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.
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And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
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And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.