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11 So my sons,[a] don’t be lazy or waste any more time. The Lord chose you to serve him in the Temple and to burn incense.”

12-14 This is a list of the Levites who started to work:

From the Kohath family there were Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah.

From the Merari family there were Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel.

From the Gershon family there were Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joab.

From Elizaphan’s descendants there were Shimri and Jeiel.

From Asaph’s descendants there were Zechariah and Mattaniah.

From Heman’s descendants there were Jehiel and Shimei.

From Jeduthun’s descendants there were Shemaiah and Uzziel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:11 my sons Here, Hezekiah is speaking to the priests like a father to his sons. They are not really his children.

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