1 Chronicles 24:1Wycliffe's Bible with Modern SpellingForsooth to the sons of Aaron these portions shall be; the sons of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar; See the chapter |
Therefore the deacons [or Levites] and all Judah did by all things which Jehoiada, the bishop, had commanded; and all took the men, that were with them, and came by the order of [the] sabbath with them, that had [ful] filled now the sabbath, and should go out. For Jehoiada, the bishop, suffered not the companies to go away, that were wont to come one after the tother by each week.
And Hezekiah ordained companies of priests and deacons [or Levites] by their partings, each man in his own office, that is, as well of priests as of deacons [or Levites], to burnt sacrifices and peaceable sacrifices, that they should minister, and acknowledge, and sing in the gates of the castles [or tents] of the Lord.
And he ordained by the ordinance of David, his father, the offices of priests in their services, and the deacons [or Levites] in their order, that they should praise and minister before [the] priests by the custom of each day; and he ordained [the] porters in their partings by gate and gate. For David, the man of God, had commanded so;