1 Chronicles 26:1-19 - The Divisions Of The Gatekeepers

¹ The division of the porters among the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore of the children of Asaph. ² And the sons of Meshelemiah were these: Zachariah the eldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, ³ Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elihoenai the seventh. ⁴ And Obededom had sons: Shemaiah the eldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, ⁵ Amiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh and Peullathai the eighth - for God had blessed him. ⁶ And unto Shemaiah his son were sons born that ruled in the house of their father, for they were men of might. ⁷ The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Raphael, Obed, and Elzabad and his brethren, men of activity, Elihu and Semachiah. ⁸ All these were of the children of Obededom, which, with their brethren and their children, active men of strength to do service, were forty two of Obededom. ⁹ And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, active men, eighteen. ¹⁰ And Hosah of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, yet he was not the eldest, but his father made him the chiefest. ¹¹ Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third and Zachariah the fourth: so that all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

¹² Unto these was divided the office of the portership as unto heads over the men that waited with their brethren and ministered in the house of the LORD. ¹³ And they cast lots: the small as well as the great in the households of their fathers, from gate to gate.

¹⁴ And the East lot fell to Shelemiah. And for Zachariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots, and his lot came out toward the North. ¹⁵ And Obededom's lot fell to the South. And to his sons fell the counsel houses. ¹⁶ And to Shuppim and Hosah fell the west with the gate Shallecheth, where the way ascendeth upward, the one way being fast by the other.

¹⁷ In the East kept six Levites: in the North four a day, and in the South four a day, and in every counsel house, two, ¹⁸ and in the watchhouses, on the way westward, four: two in a house. ¹⁹ These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore and the sons of Merari.