1 Chronicles 25

¹Then David and the magistrates of the army set apart, for the ministry, the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps and psalteries and cymbals, in accord with their number, having been dedicated to their appointed office

²From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, prophesying beside the king

³Then of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, and Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hand of their father Jeduthun, who was prophesying with stringed instruments, while confessing and praising the Lord

⁴Also, of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, and Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth

⁵All these were the sons of Heman, the seer of the king in the words of God, in order to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters

⁶All these, under their father’s hand, were distributed in order to sing in the temple of the Lord, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, in the ministry of the house of the Lord beside the king, specifically, Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman

⁷Now the number of these, with their brothers, who were instructing in the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred eighty-eight

⁸And they cast lots in their turns, the elder equally with the younger, the learned together with the unlearned

⁹And the first lot went forth to Joseph, who was of Asaph; the second went forth to Gedaliah, to him and his sons and his brothers, twelve

¹⁰The third went to Zaccur, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹¹The fourth went to Izri, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹²The fifth went to Nethaniah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹³The sixth went to Bukkiah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹⁴The seventh went to Jesharelah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹⁵The eighth went to Jeshaiah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹⁶The ninth went to Mattaniah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹⁷The tenth went to Shimei, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹⁸The eleventh went to Azarel, to his sons and brothers, twelve

¹⁹The twelfth went to Hashabiah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²⁰The thirteenth went to Shubael, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²¹The fourteenth went to Mattithiah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²²The fifteenth went to Jeremoth, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²³The sixteenth went to Hananiah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²⁴The seventeenth went to Joshbekashah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²⁵The eighteenth went to Hanani, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²⁶The nineteenth went to Mallothi, to his sons and his brothers, twelve

²⁷The twentieth went to Eliathah, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²⁸The twenty-first went to Hothir, to his sons and brothers, twelve

²⁹The twenty-second went to Giddalti, to his sons and brothers, twelve

³⁰The twenty-third went to Mahazioth, to his sons and brothers, twelve

³¹The twenty-fourth went to Romamtiezer, to his sons and brothers, twelve