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## 1 Chronicles 23:3-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/1) So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/2) ¶ And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/3) Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/4) Of which, twenty and four thousand *were* to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand *were* officers and judges:*
 
 [5 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/5) Moreover four thousand *were* porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, *said David*, to praise *therewith*.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/6) And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, *namely*, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.*
 
 [7 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/7) ¶ Of the Gershonites *were*, Laadan, and Shimei.*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/23/8) The sons of Laadan; the chief *was* Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
 
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