Scribes Appointed by David

David, desiring to appoint his son king over all the people, called together their rulers in Jerusalem, along with the priests and Levites. Having first counted the Levites, he found them to be thirty-eight thousand, from thirty years old to fifty, out of whom he appointed twenty-four thousand as superintendents over the building of the Temple; and out of the same, six thousand to be judges of the people and scribes, four thousand as gatekeepers of the house of God, and as many for singers, to sing to the instruments that David had prepared, as we have said already.

Translated byWilliam Whiston, adapted byAaron Samuels.