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So when David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
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And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
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Of these, twenty-four thousand were to look after the work of the house of the Lord, six thousand were officers and judges
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four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with musical instruments, "which I made," said David, "for giving praise."
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Also David separated them into divisions among the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
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The sons of Laadan: the first Jehiel, then Zetham and Joel--three in all.
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The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran--three in all. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Laadan.