# 1 Chronicles 26

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###### v1 
For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. 

###### v2 
Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 

###### v3 
Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh. 

###### v4 
Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, 

###### v5 
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. 

###### v6 
Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor. 

###### v7 
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. 

###### v8 
All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom. 

###### v9 
Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen. 

###### v10 
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), 

###### v11 
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. 

###### v12 
Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh's house. 

###### v13 
They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate. 

###### v14 
The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. 

###### v15 
To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse. 

###### v16 
To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman. 

###### v17 
Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two. 

###### v18 
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. 

###### v19 
These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari. 

###### v20 
Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God's house and over the treasures of the dedicated things. 

###### v21 
The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. 

###### v22 
The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh's house. 

###### v23 
Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: 

###### v24 
and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures. 

###### v25 
His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. 

###### v26 
This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures 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. 

###### v27 
They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh's house. 

###### v28 
All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and 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. 

###### v29 
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. 

###### v30 
Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king. 

###### v31 
Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even 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. 

###### v32 
His brothers, 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.

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