1Ch 15:12, 24:4, 31 | ESV | STEP | and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers ’ houses of the Levites . Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers , so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord , the God of Israel , to the place that I have prepared for it.

c ver. 5; ch. 25:8; 26:13, 14; Neh. 11:1

1 Chronicles 15:12

12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. ^aConsecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, ^bto the place that I have prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 24:4

4 Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers’ houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 24:31

31 These also, the head of each father’s house and his younger brother alike, ^ccast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, ^dZadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites.