2 Chronicles 23:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ Now this is what you must do, Let the third of you, the priests and Levites, come in on the sabbath, to guard the outer gates;

²⁵ And their brethren in the villages were to relieve them, every seven days from time to time.

³ and the Levites were numbered, from thirty years old and upwards; and the number of them by their poll, amounted to thirty eight thousand men. ⁴ Of these, twenty four thousand were for the works for the house of the Lord; and six thousand were scribes and judges; ⁵ and four thousand were guards of the gates, and four thousand were to praise the Lord with musical instruments, which he had made for praising the Lord. ⁶ And David distributed them into daily classes, under the heads of Gerson, Kaath and Merari, the sons of Levi.

³ David classed Sadok at the head of the sons of Eleazar, and Achimelech at the head of the sons of Ithamar, according to the review of them according to their service, according to the houses of their families. ⁴ And as the Eleazarites were found to be more numerous for chiefs of mighty men than the sons of Ithamar, therefore he distributed them; for the sons of Eleazar sixteen chiefs for houses of families, and for the sons of Ithamar chiefs for eight houses of families. ⁵ These he distributed by lot, one with the other. Because there were chiefs of the holies, and chiefs of the Lord, among the sons of Eleazar and among the sons of Ithamar, ⁶ therefore in the presence of the king and the chiefs, Samaias son of Nathaniel, the muster master of the Levites, wrote down Sadok the priest and Achimelech son of Abiathar, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and the Levites, a chief of a house of families alternately, one for Eleazar and one for Ithamar,

¹³ And they cast lots, the junior as well as the senior, according to the houses of their families for their respective gates. ¹⁴ And the lot for the eastern gate fell to Selemia and Zacharias. The sons of Joaz having cast lots, the north gate fell to Melchia; ¹⁵ and to Abdedom the south gate over against the house of Esephim; ¹⁶ to Osa that to the west, behind the gate of the chamber of ascent, guard being over against guard.

⁸ And it came to pass that when he was performing the priest's office before God, in the order of his course, ⁹ it fell to his lot, according to the order of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord, to burn incense,