Levites

And his Princes gaue willingly vnto the people, to the Priests and to the Leuites: Hilkiah, and Zachariah, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the Priests for the Passeouer-offerings, two thousand and sixe hundred small cattell, and three hundred oxen.

1611 marginal noteHeb. offred.

Conaniah also, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren, & Hashabiah, and Iehiel, and Ioshabad chiefe of the Leuites, gaue vnto the Leuites for Passeouer-offerings, fiue thousand small cattell, and fiue hundred oxen.

1611 marginal noteHeb. offred.

So the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stood in their place, and the Leuites in their courses, according to the kings commandement.

And they killed the Passeouer, and the Priestes sprinckled the blood from their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.

1611 marginal noteSee Chap. 29.34.

And afterward they made ready for themselues, and for the Priests: because the Priests the sonnes of Aaron were busied in offring of burnt offrings, and the fat vntill night: therefore the Leuites prepared for themselues, and for the Priests the sonnes of Aaron.

And the singers the sonnes of Asaph, were in their place according to the commandement of Dauid, and Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun the kings Seer: and the Porters waited at euery gate: they might not depart from their seruice; for their brethren the Leuites prepared for them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. station

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 25.1. &c.

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 9.17. and 26.14.

And there was no Passeouer like to that, kept in Israel, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neither did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer, as Iosiah kept, and the Priests and the Leuites, and all Iudah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.

¶ Then rose vp the chiefe of the fathers of Iudah and Beniamin, and the Priests, and the Leuites, with all them whose spirit God had raised to goe vp, to build the house of the LORD which is in Ierusalem.

¶ The Leuites. The children of Ieshua, and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodauia, seuentie and foure.

1611 marginal noteOr, Iuda, chap.3.9.called also Hodeuah, nehem. 7.43.

So the priests and the Leuites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.