1 After David had lived long and was old, he made his son Solomon the new king of Israel.
2 David gathered all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and Levites.
3 He counted the Levites who were thirty years old and older. In all, there were thirty-eight thousand Levites.
4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand Levites will direct the work of the Temple of the Lord, six thousand Levites will be officers and judges,