The First Book of the Chronicles

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- Chapter 26 -

This is a list of the groups of men who guarded the temple gates: From the descendants of Korah, there was Meshelemiah son of Kore, who was one of the sons of Asaph.

The oldest son of Meshelemiah was Zechariah. His other sons were Jediael, Zebadiah, Jathniel,

Elam, Jehohanan, and Eliehoenai.

Another guard was Obed Edom. His oldest son was Shemaiah. His other sons were Jehozabad, Joah, Sakar, Nethanel,

Ammiel, Issachar, and Peullethai. It was because God had blessed him that he had many sons.

Obed Edom’s son Shemaiah also had sons. They were leaders in their father’s family because they were capable of doing many things well.

The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad. Shemaiah’s relatives Elihu and Semakiah were also capable men.

All of those descendants of Obed Edom and their sons and relatives were capable people and strong workers. Altogether there were 62 of them.

Another guard was Meshelemiah. He and his sons and relatives were also capable people. There were 18 of them altogether.

Another guard was Hosah’s son Shimri, a descendant of Merari. Hosah appointed Shimri to be the leader, even though he was not Hosah’s oldest son.

Hosah’s other sons were Hilkiah, Tabaliah, and Zechariah. Altogether there were 13 sons and relatives of Hosah.

Those men were leaders of the groups of men who guarded the gates of the temple. They worked at the temple like their relatives did.

By casting lots, the leader of each family chose one gate for their group to guard. All of them, including young men and old men, cast lots.

Shelemiah’s group was selected to guard the east gate. The group of Shelemiah’s son Zechariah, who was a wise counselor, was selected to guard the north gate.

Then Obed Edom’s group was selected to guard the south gate, and his sons were selected to guard the entrances to the temple storerooms. The work for the guards was divided evenly.

Then Shuppim's group and Hosah's group were selected to guard the west gate and the Shalleketh Gate on the upper road to the temple. The work for the guards was divided evenly.

Each day there were six descendants of Levi who guarded the east gate, four who guarded the north gate, four who guarded the south gate, and two at a time who guarded the entrances to the storerooms.

At the west gate there were two men who guarded the courtyard and four who guarded the road outside the courtyard.

Those were the groups of men who were descendants of Korah and Merari who guarded the gates of the temple.

The Treasurers, Officers, and Judges

Other descendants of Levi were in charge of the chests that contained the money that was dedicated to God, money that the people brought to the temple.

One of those men was Ladan, a descendant of Gershon. He was the ancestor of several family groups. Jehiel was the leader of one of those family groups.

Others who had that work were Zetham and his younger brother Joel, who were the sons of Jehiel.

Others who did that work were descendants of Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

Shubuel, a descendant of Moses’s son Gershom, was the leader who was in charge of the money chests.

Others who did that work were the descendants of Gershom’s younger brother Eliezer. Those men were Eliezer’s son Rehabiah, Rehabiah’s son Jeshaiah, Jeshaiah’s son Joram, Joram’s son Zichri, and Zichri’s son Shelomith.

Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of all the valuable things that had been dedicated to Yahweh by King David, by the leaders of the family groups, by the army commanders of one thousand soldiers and commanders of 100 soldiers, and by other army commanders.

Some of the things that those army officers had taken from Israel’s enemies in battles they dedicated for the repair of the temple of Yahweh.

And Shelomith and his relatives were also in charge of everything that had been dedicated to Yahweh by the prophet Samuel, by King Saul, and by David’s two army commanders Abner and Joab.

From the descendants of Izhar, Kenaniah and his sons were given work outside the temple area. They were officials and judges in various places in Israel.

From the descendants of Hebron, Hashabiah and his relatives were responsible for the work done for Yahweh and for the king in all the area west of the Jordan river. There were 1,700 of them who were able to do their work well.

It was written in the records of the descendants of Hebron that Jeriah was their leader. When David had been ruling for almost forty years, they searched in those records, and they found names of capable men descended from Hebron who were at the city of Jazer in the region of Gilead.

Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were able to do their work well, and who were leaders of their families. King David put them in charge of governing the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the western half of the tribe of Manasseh, to be sure that all the people did what God and the king told them to do.

For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.

Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.

The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose relatives were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom with their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen valiant men.

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.

Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the LORD’s house.

They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.

To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.

Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.

For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

The Treasurers, Officers, and Judges

Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.

The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the LORD’s house.

Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:

Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasuries.

His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.

This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.

They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair the LORD’s house.

All that Samuel the seer, Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth and of his brothers.

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men of valor, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of the LORD and for the service of the king.

Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.

His relatives, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king.