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¹Therefore David, and the magis-trates of the host, parted or separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, the which should prophesy in harps, and in psalteries, and in cymbals, by their number, and serve the office hallowed, or enjoined, to them.

²Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah; and the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, prophesied beside the king.

³And the sons of Jeduthun were these; Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, and Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six; under the hand of their father Jeduthun, that prophesied in an harp, upon men acknowledging and praising the Lord.

⁴Also the sons of Heman were these of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romam-tiezer, and Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth;

⁵all these the sons of Heman were prophets of the king in the words of God, that he should enhance the horn, or strength. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

⁶All these under the hand of their father were dealed, either assigned, to sing in the temple of the Lord, in cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, into the service of the house of the Lord, nigh the king, that is say, Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman.

⁷And the number of them, with their brethren that taught the songs of the Lord, all the teachers, was two hundred fourscore and eight.

⁸And they sent lots by their whiles evenly, as well the greater as the less, also a wise man and an unwise.

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

¹⁰the third to Zaccur, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹¹the fourth to Izri, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹²the fifth to Nethaniah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹³the sixth to Bukkiah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹⁴the seventh to Jesharelah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹⁵the eighth to Jeshaiah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹⁶the ninth to Mattaniah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹⁷the tenth to Shimei, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹⁸the eleventh to Azareel, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

¹⁹the twelfth to Hashabiah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁰the thirteenth to Shubael, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²¹the fourteenth to Mattithiah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²²the fifteenth to Jeremoth, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²³the sixteenth to Hananiah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁴the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁵the eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁶the nineteenth to Mallothi, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁷the twentieth to Eliathah, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁸the one and twentieth to Hothir, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

²⁹the two and twentieth to Giddalti, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

³⁰the three and twentieth to Mahaz-ioth, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve;

³¹the four and twentieth to Romam-tiezer, to his sons and to his brethren, twelve.