1 Chronicles 6

¹The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merarʹi. ²The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzʹziel. ³The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abiʹhu, Eleaʹzar, and Ithʹamar. ⁴Eleaʹzar was the father of Phinʹehas, Phinʹehas of Abishuʹa, ⁵Abishuʹa of Bukki, Bukki of Uzzi, ⁶Uzzi of Zerahiʹah, Zerahiʹah of Meraiʹoth, ⁷Meraiʹoth of Amariʹah, Amariʹah of Ahiʹtub, ⁸Ahiʹtub of Zadok, Zadok of Ahimʹa-az, ⁹Ahimʹa-az of Azariʹah, Azariʹah of Johaʹnan, ¹⁰and Johaʹnan of Azariʹah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem). ¹¹Azariʹah was the father of Amariʹah, Amariʹah of Ahiʹtub, ¹²Ahiʹtub of Zadok, Zadok of Shallum, ¹³Shallum of Hilkiʹah, Hilkiʹah of Azariʹah, ¹⁴Azariʹah of Seraiʹah, Seraiʹah of Jehozʹadak; ¹⁵and Jehozʹadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezʹzar.

¹⁶The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merarʹi. ¹⁷And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimʹe-i. ¹⁸The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzʹziel. ¹⁹The sons of Merarʹi: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers. ²⁰Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹Joʹah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Je-athʹerai his son. ²²The sons of Kohath: Amminʹadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³Elkaʹnah his son, Ebiʹasaph his son, Assir his son, ²⁴Tahath his son, Uriʹel his son, Uzziʹah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵The sons of Elkaʹnah: Amaʹsai and Ahiʹmoth, ²⁶Elkaʹnah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, ²⁷Eliʹab his son, Jeroʹham his son, Elkaʹnah his son. ²⁸The sons of Samuel: Joʹel his first-born, the second Abiʹjah. ²⁹The sons of Merarʹi: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimʹe-i his son, Uzzah his son, ³⁰Shimʹe-a his son, Haggiʹah his son, and Asaiʹah his son.

³¹These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark rested there. ³²They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they performed their service in due order. ³³These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Koʹhathites: Heman the singer the son of Joʹel, son of Samuel, ³⁴son of Elkaʹnah, son of Jeroʹham, son of Eliʹel, son of Toʹah, ³⁵son of Zuph, son of Elkaʹnah, son of Mahath, son of Amaʹsai, ³⁶son of Elkaʹnah, son of Joʹel, son of Azariʹah, son of Zephaniʹah, ³⁷son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiʹasaph, son of Korah, ³⁸son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; ³⁹and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiʹah, son of Shimʹe-a, ⁴⁰son of Michael, son of Ba-aseʹiah, son of Malchiʹjah, ⁴¹son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiʹah, ⁴²son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimʹe-i, ⁴³son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. ⁴⁴On the left hand were their brethren the sons of Merarʹi: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, ⁴⁵son of Hashabiʹah, son of Amaziʹah, son of Hilkiʹah, ⁴⁶son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, ⁴⁷son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merarʹi, son of Levi; ⁴⁸and their brethren the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

⁴⁹But Aaron and his sons made offerings upon the altar of burnt offering and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. ⁵⁰These are the sons of Aaron: Eleaʹzar his son, Phinʹehas his son, Abishuʹa his son, ⁵¹Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiʹah his son, ⁵²Meraiʹoth his son, Amariʹah his son, Ahiʹtub his son, ⁵³Zadok his son, Ahimʹa-az his son.

⁵⁴These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Koʹhathites, for theirs was the lot, ⁵⁵to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasture lands, ⁵⁶but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunʹneh. ⁵⁷To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoʹa with its pasture lands, ⁵⁸Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands, ⁵⁹Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-sheʹmesh with its pasture lands; ⁶⁰and from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Alʹemeth with its pasture lands, and Anʹathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen.

⁶¹To the rest of the Koʹhathites were given by lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasʹseh, ten cities. ⁶²To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Isʹsachar, Asher, Naphʹtali, and Manasʹseh in Bashan. ⁶³To the Merarʹites according to their families were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebʹulun. ⁶⁴So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasture lands. ⁶⁵They also gave them by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities which are mentioned by name.

⁶⁶And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Eʹphraim. ⁶⁷They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Eʹphraim, Gezer with its pasture lands, ⁶⁸Jokʹme-am with its pasture lands, Beth-horʹon with its pasture lands, ⁶⁹Aiʹjalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimʹmon with its pasture lands, ⁷⁰and out of the half-tribe of Manasʹseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bilʹe-am with its pasture lands, for the rest of the families of the Koʹhathites.

⁷¹To the Gershomites were given out of the half-tribe of Manasʹseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ashʹtaroth with its pasture lands; ⁷²and out of the tribe of Isʹsachar: Kedesh with its pasture lands, Dabʹerath with its pasture lands, ⁷³Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands; ⁷⁴out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands, ⁷⁵Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands; ⁷⁶and out of the tribe of Naphʹtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hamʹmon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaʹim with its pasture lands. ⁷⁷To the rest of the Merarʹites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebʹulun: Rimʹmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands, ⁷⁸and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the steppe with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands, ⁷⁹Kedʹemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephʹa-ath with its pasture lands; ⁸⁰and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaʹim with its pasture lands, ⁸¹Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.