2 Chronicles 23:4 Cross References - Darby

⁴ This is the thing which ye shall do: a third part of you that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be keepers of the doors;

²⁵ And their brethren, in their villages, were to come after [every] seven days from time to time with them.

³ And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges; ⁵ and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, [said David,] to praise [therewith]. ⁶ And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

³ And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their office in their service. ⁴ And there were more head-men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads of fathers` houses, and eight of the sons of Ithamar according to their fathers` houses. ⁵ And they were divided by lot, one with another; for the princes of the sanctuary and the princes of God were of the sons of Eleazar and of the sons of Ithamar. ⁶ And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, [one] of the Levites, inscribed them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the chief fathers of the priests and Levites: one father`s house was drawn for Eleazar, and one drawn for Ithamar.

¹³ And they cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers` houses, for every gate. ¹⁴ And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah; and they cast lots for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, and his lot came out northward; ¹⁵ to Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse. ¹⁶ To Shuppim and Hosah westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the ascent, watch against watch.

⁸ And it came to pass, as he fulfilled his priestly service before God in the order of his course, ⁹ it fell to him by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.