In context
11My sons, do not be slack now, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to be those who minister to him and burn incense.” 12Then the Levites set to work: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah, from the Kohathites; from the Merarites, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; from the Gershonites, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah; 13from the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; from the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; 14from the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and from the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. 15They gathered their kinsmen and consecrated themselves, and they came, as the king had commanded by the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh.
