1 Chronicles 25

Bishops(i) 1 And so Dauid and the captaynes of the hoast appoynted out to do seruice the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, & Ieduthun, which should prophecie with harpes, psalteries, and cymbales: And there was a multitude of the men that were appoynted to the seruice and ministration 2 Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zacur, Ioseph, Nathania, and Asarela that wayted on Asaph which prophecied according to the commaundement of the king 3 Of Ieduthun: the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedeliahu, Zeri, Iesaiahu, Hasabiahu, and Mathathiahu, sixe, vnder the handes of their father Ieduthun, which prophecied with a harpe, for to geue thankes & prayses vnto the Lorde 4 Of Heman: the sonnes of Heman, Bucciahu, Matthaniahu, Uzziel, Zebuel, Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddalthi, Romanthi Ezer, Iosbekasa, Malothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth 5 All these were the sonnes of Heman which was ye kinges sear in the wordes of God, to lyft vp the horne [of the regall dignitie:] And God gaue to Hema foureteene sonnes, and three daughters 6 All these also were at the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, when Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman executed the seruice in the house of God at the kinges commaundement 7 And the multitude of them with their brethre that were instruct in the songes of the Lorde, euen all that were cunning, were two hundred fourescore and eyght 8 And they cast lottes among them selues how they should waite, aswel for the small as for the great, for the scholler aswell as for the schoolemaister 9 And the first lot in Asaph fell to Ioseph, the second to Gedaliahu with his brethren and sonnes, which men were twelue 10 The third fell to Zacur with his sonnes and brethren, being twelue persons 11 The fourth, to Izri with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 12 The fifth to Nathaniahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 13 The sixt to Bucciahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 14 The seuenth to Iesrarela with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 15 The eyght to Iesaiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 16 The ninth to Mathaiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 17 The tenth to Semei with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 18 The eleuenth to Azareel with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 19 The twelfth to Hazabia with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 20 The thirteenth to Subael with his sonnes and brethren twelue persons 21 The foureteenth, to Mathathiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 22 The fifteenth to Ieremoth with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 23 The sixteenth to Hananiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 24 The seuenteenth to Iosbekasa with his sonnes & brethren, twelue persons 25 The eyghteenth to Hanani with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 26 The nineteenth to Malothi with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 27 The twenteeth to Eliaiha with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 28 The twentie and one to Hothir with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 29 The twentie & two to Geddalthi with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 30 The twentie and three to Mahazioth with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons 31 The twentie and foure to Romamthi Ezer with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons