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1 Chronicles 25

¹Moreouer Dauid and the captaines of the hoste separated to the seruice of the sonnes of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Ieduthun, who should prophesie with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen, according to their seruice, was:

²Of the sonnes of Asaph: Zaccur, and Ioseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sonnes of Asaph vnder the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.

³Of Ieduthun: the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Ieshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, sixe, vnder the handes of their father Ieduthun, who prophesied with a harpe, to giue thankes and to praise the Lord.

⁴Of Heman: the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Ioshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:

⁵All these were the sonnes of Heman the kings Seer in the wordes of God, to lift vp the horne. And God gaue to Heman fourteene sonnes and three daughters.

⁶All these were vnder the hands of their father, for song in the house of the Lord with cymbals, psalteries and harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, according to the kings order, to Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman.

⁷So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, euen all that were cunning, was two hundred, foure score and eight.

⁸And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholler.

⁹Now the first lot came foorth for Asaph to Ioseph, the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sonnes were twelue:

¹⁰The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren were twelue:

¹¹The fourth to Izri, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:

¹²The fift to Nethaniah, hee, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:

¹³The sixt to Bukkiah, he, his sons and his brethren were twelue.

¹⁴The seuenth to Iesharelah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:

¹⁵The eight to Ieshaiah, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue:

¹⁶The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:

¹⁷The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons and his brethren were twelue:

¹⁸The eleuenth to Azareel, hee, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:

¹⁹The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue:

²⁰The thirteenth to Shubael, hee, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:

²¹The fourteenth to Mattithiah, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.

²²The fifteenth to Ierimoth, hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:

²³The sixteenth to Hananiah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:

²⁴The seuenteenth to Ioshbekashah, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue:

²⁵The eighteenth to Hanani: hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:

²⁶The nineteenth to Mallothi, hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:

²⁷The twentieth to Eliathah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:

²⁸The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue.

²⁹The two and twentieth to Giddalti, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.

³⁰The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.

³¹The foure and twentieth to Romamti-Ezer, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.