1 Chronicles 23:1-23

23¹ Now when David reached old age , he made his son Solomon king over Israel .

The Divisions and Duties of the Levites

² And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites . ³ The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward , and their number by census of men was 38,000 e e . ⁴ Of these , 24,000 e e were to oversee the work of the house of the Lord ; and 6,000 e were officers and judges ⁵ and 4,000 e were gatekeepers , and 4,000 e were praising the Lord with the instruments which David made for giving praise . ⁶ David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi : Gershon , Kohath , and Merari . ⁷ Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei . ⁸ The sons of Ladan were Jehiel the first and Zetham and Joel , three . ⁹ The sons of Shimei were Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran , three . These were the heads of the fathers' households of Ladan . ¹⁰ The sons of Shimei were Jahath , Zina , Jeush and Beriah . These four were the sons of Shimei . ¹¹ Jahath was the first and Zizah the second ; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons , so they became a father's household , one class . ¹² The sons of Kohath were four : Amram , Izhar , Hebron and Uzziel . ¹³ The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses . And Aaron was set apart to sanctify him as most holy , he and his sons forever e , to burn incense before the Lord , to minister to Him and to bless in His name forever e . ¹⁴ But as for Moses the man of God , his sons were named among the tribe of Levi ¹⁵ The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer . ¹⁶ The son of Gershom was Shebuel the chief . ¹⁷ The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chief ; and Eliezer had no other sons , but the sons of Rehabiah were very many . ¹⁸ The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief . ¹⁹ The sons of Hebron were Jeriah the first , Amariah the second , Jahaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth ²⁰ The sons of Uzziel were Micah the first and Isshiah the second . ²¹ The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi . The sons of Mahli were Eleazar and Kish ²² Eleazar died and had no sons , but daughters only , so their brothers , the sons of Kish , took them as wives. ²³ The sons of Mushi were three : Mahli , Eder and Jeremoth .