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They were chosen by impartial lottery, since there were trustees[a] of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar’s descendants and among Ithamar’s descendants. Nethanel’s son Shemaiah, a Levitical scribe, made an official record of them for the king, the officers, Zadok the priest, Abiathar’s son Ahimelech, and the heads of ancestral households of both the priests and the descendants of Levi. One ancestral house was chosen for Eleazar and one for Ithamar.

The first lottery was chosen in favor of Jehoiarib, the second for Jedaiah,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 24:5 Lit. officers

They divided them impartially by casting lots,(A) for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God among the descendants of both Eleazar and Ithamar.

The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officials: Zadok the priest, Ahimelek(B) son of Abiathar and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar and then one from Ithamar.

The first lot fell to Jehoiarib,

the second to Jedaiah,(C)

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