Bishops(i)
1 These are the deuisions of the porters. Among the Corethites, Meselemiahu, the sonne of Kore of the children of Asaph
2 And the sonnes of Meselemiahu were these: Zachariahu the eldest, Iedihel the second, Zebadiahu the third, and Iahniel the fourth
3 Elam the fifth, Iehohanan the sixt, and Eiloenai the seuenth
4 The sonnes of Obed Edom, Semeia the eldest, Iehosabad the second, Ioah the third, Sacar the fourth, and Nathanael the fifth
5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seuenth, Peulthai the eyght, for God blessed him
6 And vnto Semeia, his sonne, were sonnes borne, that ruled in the house of their father: for they were men of might
7 The sonnes of Semeia, Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, and his brethren were strong men, Elihu and Samachiahu
8 All these were of the children of Obed Edom: they and their children, and their brethren, actiue men and of strength to do seruice, euen threescore and two of Obed Edom
9 And Meselemiahu had sonnes and brethren, actiue men, eyghteene
10 The sonnes of Hosa of the children of Merari, Simri the chiefe, & though he was not the eldest, yet his father set him in the chiefest place
11 Helkiahu the second, Tebaliahu the third, and Zechariahu the fourth: all the sonnes and brethren of Hosa were thirteene
12 Among these was deuided the office of the portership, that they shoulde be auncient men, to wayte with their brethren, when they ministred in the house of the Lorde
13 And they cast lottes betweene the great and small, after the housholde of their fathers, for euery gate
14 And the lot on the eastsyde fell vpon Selemiahu: And for Zachariahu his sonne (which was a wyfe counsailour) they cast lottes, and his lot came out toward the north
15 And Obed Edoms lot fell to the south: And for his sonnes fell the houses of Asuppim
16 For Shuppim and Hosa toward the west, with the gate Shallecheth by the paued streate that goeth vpward, one watch being ouer against an other
17 In the east were sixe Leuites, and toward the north foure a day, toward the south foure a day, and toward Asuppim two and two
18 In Parbar toward the west two at the going vp, and two in Pharbar
19 These are the deuisions of the porters among the sonnes of Koreh, & among the sonnes of Merari