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brethren in the seruice of ye house of the Lord. was Isshiiah, the sonne of Isshiiah, Zechariah,
26 The sonnes of Merari, were Mahli and Mushi,
24 the sonne of Iaaziiah was Beno, 27 The sonnes
of Merari of Iahaziah were Beno, and Shoham,
1 These are also the diuisions of the sonnes and Zaccur and Ibri. 28 Of Mahli came Eleazar,
of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, which had no sonnes. 29 Of Kish. the sonne of
and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 2 But Nadab Kish was Ierahmeel, 30 And the sonnes of Mushi
and Abihu died before their father, and had no were Mahli, and Eder, and Ierimoth: these were
children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar exe- sonnes of the Leuites after the houshold of their
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cuted the Priestes office. And Dauid distributed fathers. 31 And these also cast lots with their
them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and brethren the sonnes of Aaron before King Dauid,
Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according and Zadok and Ahimelech and the chiefe fathers
to their offices in their ministration. 4 And of the Priests, and of the Leuites, euen the chiefe
there were found more of the sonnes of Eleazar of the families against their yonger brethren.
by the number of men, then of the sonnes of
Ithamar. and they deuided them, to wit, among 25
the sonnes of Eleazar, sixteene heads, according 1 So Dauid and the captaines of the armie
to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye separated for the ministerie the sonnes of As-
sonnes of Ithamar, according to the housholde of aph, and Heman, and Ieduthun, who should sing
their fathers, eight. Thus they distributed them prophesies with harpes, with violes, and with
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by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers cymbales, and their nomber was euen of the
of the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of men for the office of their ministerie, to wit,
God were of the sonnes of Eleazar and of the 2 Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zaccur, and Ioseph,
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sonnes of Ithamar. And Shemaiah the sonne of
Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them and Nethaniah, and Asharelah the sonnes of
before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Asaph were vnder the hand of Asaph, which sang
Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and prophesies by the commission of the King. 3 Of
before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Ieduthun, the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedaliah, and
Leuites, one familie being reserued for Eleazar, Zeri, and Ieshaiah, Ashabiah and Mattithiah, six,
and another reserued for Ithamar. And the first vnder the hands of their father: Ieduthun sang
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lot fell to Iehoiarib, and the second to Iedaiah, prophecies with an harpe, for to giue thankes
8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, The and to praise the Lord. 4 Of Heman, the sonnes
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fifth to Malchiiah, the sixt to Miiamin, 10 The of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Vzziel, Shebuel,
seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah, 11 The and Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Gid-
ninth to Ieshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, 12 The dalti, and Romamtiezer, Ioshbekashah, Mallothi,
eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelft to Iakim, 13 The Hothir, and Mahazioth. 5 All these were the
thirteenth to Huppa, the fouretenth to Ieshe- sonnes of Heman, the Kings Seer in the wordes of
beab, 14 The fiftenth to Bilgah, the sixtenth to God to lift vp the horne: and God gaue to Heman
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Immer, 15 The seuententh to Hezir, the eightenth fourtene sonnes and three daughters. All these
to Happizzer, 16 The ninetenth to Pethahiah, the were vnder the hande of their father, singing in
twentieth to Iehezekel, 17 The one and twentie to the house of the Lord with cymbales, violes and
Iachin, the two and twentie to Gamul, The three harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, and
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and twentie to Deliah, the foure and twentie to Asaph, and Ieduthun, and Heman were at the
Maaziah. 19 These were their orders according Kings commandement. 7 So was their nomber
to their offices, when they entred into the house with their brethre that were instruct in ye songs
of the Lord according to their custome vnder of the Lord, euen of al that were cunning, two
the hande of Aaron their father, as the Lord God hundreth foure score and eight. 8 And they
of Israel had commanded him. 20 And of the
sonnes of Leui that remained of the sonnes of cast lottes, charge against charge, aswel small as
Amram, was Shubael, of the sonnes of Shubael, great, the cunning man as the scholer. 9 And
Iedeiah, 21 Of Rehabiah. euen of the sonnes of the first lot fell to Ioseph which was of Asaph,
Rehabiah, the first Isshiiah, 22 Of Izhari, Shelo- the second, to Gedaliah, who with his brethren
moth, of the sonnes of Shelomoth, Iahath, 23 And and his sonnes were twelue. 10 The third, to
his sonnes Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Zaccur, he, his sonnes and his brethren were
Iahaziel the thirde, and Iekameam the fourth, twelue. 11 The fourth, to Izri, he, his sonnes and
24 The sonne of Vzziel was Michah, ye sonne of his brethren twelue. 12 The fift, to Nethaniah, he,
Michah was Shamir, 25 The brother of Michah his sonnes and his brethren twelue. 13 The sixt, to