5. 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”
6. And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
11. Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, therefore they became counted as a single father’s house.
12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.