\v 1 So all Israel was recorded in genealogies. They were recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel. As for Judah, they were carried away in exile to Babylon because of their sin.
\v 12 There was Adaiah son of Jeroham son of Pashhur son of Malchijah. There was also Maasai son of Adiel son of Jahzerah son of Meshullam son of Meshillemith son of Immer.
\v 14 Among the Levites, there was Shemaiah son of Hasshub son of Azrikam son of Hashabiah, among the descendants of Merari.
\v 15 There was also Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, Mattaniah son of Mica son of Zichri son of Asaph.
\v 16 There were also Obadiah son of Shemaiah son of Galal son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
\v 19 Shallum son of Kore son of Ebiasaph son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's clan, the Korahites, were over the temple work and guards of the thresholds of the tent. This was just as their ancestors had been guards over the entrance to the place where Yahweh lives.
\v 20 Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge of them in the past, and Yahweh had been with him.
\v 21 Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was guard of the entrance to the Temple, the "tent of meeting."
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\v 22 All those who were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the people's records in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had placed them into their positions of trust.
\v 23 So they and their children guarded the gates of the house of Yahweh, the tabernacle.
\v 24 The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides, toward the east, west, north, and south.
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\v 25 Their brothers , who lived in their villages, came in for seven day rotations, in turn.
\v 26 But the four leaders of the gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the rooms and storerooms in the house of God.
\v 27 They would spend the night in their posts all around the house of God, for they were responsible for guarding it. They would open it each morning.
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\v 28 Some of them were in charge of the temple's equipment; they counted the articles when they were brought in and when they were taken out.
\v 29 Some of them also were assigned to take care of the holy things, the equipment, and the supplies, including the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
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\v 30 Some of the priests' sons mixed the spices.
\v 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of preparing bread for the offerings.
\v 32 Some of their brother descendants of the Kohathites, were in charge of the bread of the presence, to prepare it every Sabbath.
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\v 33 The singers and Levite family leaders lived in rooms at the sanctuary, when they were free from work, because they had to carry out their assigned tasks day and night.
\v 34 These were family leaders among the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.
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\v 35 The father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon.
\v 36 His firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
\v 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
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\v 38 Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They also lived near their brothers in Jerusalem.
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\v 39 Ner was the father of Kish.
\q Kish was the father of Saul.
\q Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Ishbaal.
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\v 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal.
\q Merib Baal was the father of Micah.
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\v 41 The sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and
Ahaz.
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\v 42 Ahaz was the father of Jarah.
\q Jarah was the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri.
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