\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 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, who as son of Korah, and his relatives from the house of his father, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, they guarded the door to the tent, as their ancestors had guarded the camp of Yahweh, and they also had guarded the entrance.
\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 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 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.