13:023:024 These were the sons of Levi after the house
of their fathers;
even
the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number
of
names by their polls, that did the work for the service
of
the
house of the lord, from the age of twenty years
and
upward.
13:023:025 For David said, The lord God of Israel
hath given rest unto
his
people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
13:023:026 And also unto the Levites; they shall no
more carry the
tabernacle,
nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
13:023:027 For by the last words of David the Levites
were numbered from
twenty
years old and above:
13:023:028 Because their office was to wait on the
sons of Aaron for the
service
of the house of the lord, in the courts, and in
the
chambers,
and in the purifying of all holy things, and the
work
of the service of the house of God;
13:023:029 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine
flour for meat
offering,
and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is
baked
in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all
manner
of measure and size;
13:023:030 And to stand every morning to thank and
praise the lord, and
likewise
at even:
13:023:031 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto
the lord in the
sabbaths,
in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number,
according
to the order commanded unto them, continually before
the
lord:
13:023:032 And that they should keep the charge of
the tabernacle of the
congregation,
and the charge of the holy place, and the charge
of
the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of
the
house
of the lord.
13:024:001 Now these are the divisions of the sons
of Aaron. The sons of
Aaron;
Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
13:024:002 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father,
and had no
children:
therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s
office.
13:024:003 And David distributed them, both Zadok
of the sons of Eleazar,
and
Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their
offices
in their service.
13:024:004 And there were more chief men found of
the sons of Eleazar
than
of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided.
Among
the
sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the
house
of
their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar
according
to the house of their fathers.
13:024:005 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort
with another; for the
governors
of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God,
were
of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.


