Bishops(i)
1 These are the deuisions of the sonnes of Aaro. The sonnes of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar
2 Nadab also and Abihu dyed before their father, & had no children: But Eleazar, & Ithamar executed the priestes office
3 And Dauid ordred them on this maner: Zadoc of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelec of the sonnes of Ithamar [were] according to their offices in their ministration
4 And there were mo auncient men founde among the sonnes of Eleazar, then the sonnes of Ithamar. And thus were they ordred together: Among the sonnes of Eleazar there were sixteene rulers according to the houshold of their fathers, and eyght among the sonnes of Ithamar according to the housholde of their fathers
5 And thus were they put in order by lot the one sort from the other: and so were there rulers in the sanctuarie and lordes before God, aswell of the sonnes of Eleazer, as of the sonnes of Ithamar
6 And Semeia the sonne of Nathanael the scribe, of the kinred of the Leuites, wrote them before the king & the lordes, & before Zadoc the priest and Ahimelec the sonne of Abiathar, and before the auncient fathers of the priestes and Leuites, one principall housholde being reserued for Eleazar, and one for Ithamar
7 And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib: and the seconde to Iedaia
8 The third to Harim, and the fourth to Sehorim
9 The fyft to Melchia, and the sixth to Miiamin
10 The seuenth to Hakos, and the eyght to Abia
11 The nynth to Iesua, and the tenth to Secaniah
12 The eleuenth to Eliasib, & the twelfth to Iakim
13 The thirteenth to Huppa, and the fourteenth to Iesebeab
14 The fyftenth to Bilga, and the sixtenth to Immer
15 The seuenteenth to Hezir, and the eyghteenth to Aphses
16 The nynteenth to Pethahia, and the twentieth to Ieheskel
17 The twentie and one to Iachin, and the twentie and two to Gamul
18 The twentie and three to Delaiahu, and the twentie and foure to Maasiahu
19 These are the ordinaunces of them in their offices when they came into the house of the Lord, according to their maner vnder Aaron their father, as the lord God of Israel had comaunded him