1 Chronicles 9:9-27

Bishops(i) 9 And their brethren according to their kinredes, nine hundred fyftie and sixe: All these were principall men and auncient in the housholdes of their fathers 10 And of the priestes: Iedaia, Iehoiarib, and Iachin 11 Azaria the sonne of Helkia, the sonne of Mesullam, the sonne of Zadoc, the sonne of Maraioth, the sonne of Ahitob the chiefest in the house of God 12 And Adaiah the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Phashur, the sonne of Melchia: and Maasi the sonne of Adiel, the sonne of Iehezrah, the sonne of Mesullam, the sonne of Mesillamith, the sonne of Immer 13 And their brethren which were heads of the auncient housholdes of their fathers, a thousand seuen hundred and threescore, actiue men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God 14 And of the Leuites: Semeia the sonne of Hasub, ye sonne of Africam, the sonne of Hasabia of the sonnes of Merari 15 And Bacbakar Heres, and Galal: And Mathania the sonne of Micah, the sonne of Zicri, the sonne of Asaph 16 And Obadia the sonne of Semeia, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Iduthun: And Berechia the sonne of Aza, the sonne of Elcana, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites 17 The porters were, Sallum, Accub, Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brother: Sallum was the chiefe 18 For they watched hitherto, euen vnto the kinges gate eastwarde by course, the children of Leui 19 And Sallum the sonne of Core, the sonne of Abiasaph, the sonne of Corah, and his brethren the Corathites of the house of their father, had their busines and office to kepe the porches of the tabernacle: and their fathers being ouer the hoast of the Lorde, kept the entering 20 And Phinehes the sonne of Eliazar was their foreguide, and the Lord was with him 21 And Zacharia the sonne of Meselemia kept the watch before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation 22 All these were chosen men to kepe the thressholdes, euen two hundred and twelue: and throughout all the genealogie wer they numbred in their villages: And them did Dauid and Samuel the sear institute, because of their fidelitie 23 So they and their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lorde, euen of the tabernacle, to kepe them 24 In foure quarters did they kepe the watch: toward the east, west, north, and south 25 And their brethren remayned in the countrey, and came after seuen dayes from tyme to tyme with them 26 For the Leuites which had the ouersight of the vestries and treasures of the house of God, were vnder the custody of foure notable porters 27 And they laye rounde about the house of God, because the keping thereof pertayned to them, and they had the charge to open it euery mornyng