Add parallel Print Page Options

They divided them by lot all alike,[a] for they were commanders of the sanctuary and commanders of God from among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them before the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the families[b] of the priests and Levites, one father’s house drawn by Lot for Eleazar and one drawn by lot for Ithamar. And the first lot went out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 24:5 Literally “these with those”
  2. 1 Chronicles 24:6 Literally “fathers”