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* Moreover David and the captains of the host (note :)The singers were divided into 24 courses , so that every course or order contained twelve , and in all there were 288 , as in ( 1Ch_25:7 ).(:note ) separated to the service of the sons of Asaph , and of Heman , and of Jeduthun , who should prophesy with harps , with psalteries , and with cymbals : and the number of the workmen according to their service was : * Of the sonnes of Asaph , Zaccur , and Ioseph , and Nethaniah , and Asharelah the sonnes of Asaph were vnder the hand of Asaph , which sang prophesies by the commission of the King . * Of Jeduthun : the sons of Jeduthun ; Gedaliah , and Zeri , and Jeshaiah , Hashabiah , and Mattithiah , (note :)Of which one is not here numbered .(:note ) six , under the hands of their father Jeduthun , who Meaning , psalms and songs to praise God . prophesied with a harp , to give thanks and to praise the LORD . * Of Heman , the sonnes of Heman , Bukkiah , Mattaniah , Vzziel , Shebuel , and Ierimoth , Hananiah , Hanani , Eliathah , Giddalti , and Romamtiezer , Ioshbekashah , Mallothi , Hothir , and Mahazioth . * All these were the sonnes of Heman , the Kings Seer in the wordes of God to lift vp the horne : and God gaue to Heman fourtene sonnes and three daughters . * All these were vnder the hande of their father , singing in the house of the Lorde with cymbales , violes and harpes , for the seruice of the house of God , and Asaph , and Ieduthun , and Heman were at the Kings commandement . * So was their nomber with their brethre that were instruct in ye songs of the Lord , euen of al that were cunning , two hundreth foure score &amp ; eight . * And they cast lots , (note :)Who should be in every company and course .(:note ) ward against [ward ], as well the Without respect to age or cunning . small as the great , the teacher as the scholar . * Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to (note :)So that he served in the first turn and the rest every one as his turn followed in order .(:note ) Joseph : the second to Gedaliah , who with his brethren and sons [were ] twelve : * The third , to Zaccur , he , his sonnes and his brethren were twelue . * The fourth , to Izri , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The fift , to Nethaniah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The sixt , to Bukkiah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The seuenth , to Iesharelah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The eight , to Ieshaiah , he , his sonnes &amp ; his brethren twelue . * The ninth , to Mattaniah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The tenth , to Shimei , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The eleuenth , to Azareel , he , his sonnes &amp ; his brethren twelue . * The twelft , to Ashabiah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The thirteenth , to Shubael , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The fourtenth , to Mattithiah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The fifteenth , to Ierimoth , he , his sonnes &amp ; his brethren twelue . * The sixteenth , to Hananiah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The seuenteenth , to Ioshbekashah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The eighteenth , to Hanani , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The ninteenth , to Mallothi , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The twentieth , to Eliathah , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The one and twentieth , to Hothir , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The two and twentieth , to Giddalti , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The three &amp ; twentieth , to Mahazioth , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue . * The foure &amp ; twentieth , to Romamti-ezer , he , his sonnes and his brethren twelue .

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