Levites, The

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• 1 Chronicles 23:6 OT

  David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

• 1 Chronicles 25:8-31 OT

  They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student. Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons were twelve; the third to…

• 2 Chronicles 8:14 OT

  He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers…

• 2 Chronicles 31:17 OT

  and those who were listed by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;

• Ezra 6:18 OT

  They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

• Numbers 3:24 OT

  Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.

• Numbers 3:30 OT

  The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

• 1 Chronicles 15:4-10 OT

  David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty; of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty; of the sons of Gershom,…

• 2 Chronicles 35:9 OT

  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.

• Ezra 8:29 OT

  Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”

• Numbers 3:32 OT

  Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

• 1 Chronicles 9:20 OT

  Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.

• 1 Chronicles 9:27 OT

  They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.

• Numbers 16:1-35 OT

  Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men. They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two…