Bible Verses About Priests: Divided by David into twenty-four courses

These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the Priestes office.

And Dauid distributed them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their offices in their ministration.

And there were found more of the sonnes of Eleazar by the number of men, then of the sonnes of Ithamar. and they deuided them, to wit, among the sonnes of Eleazar, sixteene heads, according to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye sonnes of Ithamar, according to the housholde of their fathers, eight.

Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of God were of the sonnes of Eleazar and of the sonnes of Ithamar.

And Shemaiah the sonne of Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Leuites, one familie being reserued for Eleazar, and another reserued for Ithamar.

And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib, and the second to Iedaiah,

The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

The fifth to Malchiiah, the sixt to Miiamin,

The seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah,

The ninth to Ieshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

The eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelft to Iakim,

The thirteenth to Huppa, the fouretenth to Ieshebeab,

The fiftenth to Bilgah, the sixtenth to Immer,

The seuententh to Hezir, the eightenth to Happizzer,

The ninetenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Iehezekel,

The one and twentie to Iachin, the two and twentie to Gamul,

The three and twentie to Deliah, the foure and twentie to Maaziah.

These were their orders according to their offices, when they entred into the house of the Lord according to their custome vnder the hande of Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

And he set the courses of the Priestes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their watches, for to praise and minister before the Priestes euery day, and the porters by their courses, at euery gate: for so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.

And prepare your selues by the houses of your fathers according to your courses, as Dauid the King of Israel hath written, and according to the writing of Salomon his sonne,

And stande in the Sanctuarie according to the deuision of the families of your brethren the children of the people, and after the deuision of the familie of the Leuites: