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

28. Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.

29. Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

2. He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the LEVITES.

3. The LEVITES were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

4. David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of The LORD's house, six thousand were officers and judges,

5. four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise."

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

7. Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

8. The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.

9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' households of Ladan.

10. The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

11. Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.

12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

13. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before The LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

14. But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

15. The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

16. The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

17. The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

18. The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

19. The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

20. The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

21. The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

22. Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.

23. The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

24. These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of The LORD's house, from twenty years old and upward.

25. For David said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

26. Also the LEVITES will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service."

27. For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

28. For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of The LORD's house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God's house;

29. for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;

30. and to stand every morning to thank and praise The LORD, and likewise in the evening;

31. and to offer all burnt offerings to The LORD, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before The LORD;

32. and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of The LORD's house.

24. Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

25. and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

26. I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,

27. twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

28. I said to them, "You are holy to The LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to The LORD, the God of your fathers.

29. 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 The LORD's house."

30. So the priests and the LEVITES received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

31. Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

32. We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

33. On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

34. everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.