1 Chronicles 25
David and the leaders of the army set apart the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with musical instruments in the temple. The sons of these men were assigned to their respective fathers and were given specific roles in the ministry. The total number of these musicians, including their brothers, was 288, and they were divided into 24 groups, each with 12 members, to serve in the temple.
Then 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 officeFrom the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, prophesying beside the kingThen 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 LordAlso, of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, and Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, MahaziothAll 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 daughtersAll 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 HemanNow the number of these, with their brothers, who were instructing in the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred eighty-eightAnd they cast lots in their turns, the elder equally with the younger, the learned together with the unlearnedAnd 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, twelveThe third went to Zaccur, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe fourth went to Izri, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe fifth went to Nethaniah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe sixth went to Bukkiah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe seventh went to Jesharelah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe eighth went to Jeshaiah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe ninth went to Mattaniah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe tenth went to Shimei, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe eleventh went to Azarel, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe twelfth went to Hashabiah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe thirteenth went to Shubael, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe fourteenth went to Mattithiah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe fifteenth went to Jeremoth, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe sixteenth went to Hananiah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe seventeenth went to Joshbekashah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe eighteenth went to Hanani, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe nineteenth went to Mallothi, to his sons and his brothers, twelveThe twentieth went to Eliathah, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe twenty-first went to Hothir, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe twenty-second went to Giddalti, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe twenty-third went to Mahazioth, to his sons and brothers, twelveThe twenty-fourth went to Romamtiezer, to his sons and brothers, twelve
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