Of these four and twenty thousand were set to [a]advance the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were overseers and judges.

And four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised the Lord with instruments which [b]he made to praise the Lord.

(A)So David divided offices unto them, to wit, to the sons of Levi, to (B)Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 23:4 Or, to have care over.
  2. 1 Chronicles 23:5 Hebrew, I made, meaning David.

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