1 Chronicles 6
2 aThe sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 4 b, cEleazar fathered dPhinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua, 6Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered eMeraioth, 8 fAhitub fathered gZadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, 10and Johanan fathered Azariah ( hit was he who served as priest iin the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem). 12Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered jShallum, 14Azariah fathered kSeraiah, Seraiah fathered Jehozadak; 16 ▼▼Ch 6:1 in Hebrew
The msons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 18 nThe sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 oOf Gershom: Libni his son, pJahath his son, Zimmah his son, 22 qThe sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 24Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 26Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, 28The sons of Samuel: Joel ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac (compare verse 33 and 1 Samuel 8:2); Hebrew lacks Joel
his firstborn, the second Abijah. ▼▼Hebrew and Abijah
30Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son. 32They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order. 34son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, 36son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, 38son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; 40son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchijah, 42son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, 44On the left hand were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, 46son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, 48And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
50 tThese are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 52Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 54These are their dwelling places according to their usettlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the vclans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot, 56 wbut the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 58Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 60and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, ▼
▼Septuagint, Syriac (compare Joshua 21:17); Hebrew lacks Gibeon
Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen. 62To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan. 64 ySo the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. 66 zAnd some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. 68 aaJokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, 70and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.
72and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, 74out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, 76and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. 78and abbeyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, 80and out of the tribe of Gad: acRamoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, adMahanaim with its pasturelands,
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