And Shemaiah, the son of Nethane-el, a scribe of the lineage of Levi, described them before the king and the princes, and before Zadok, the priest, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, and to the princes of meines of the priests and of the deacons or Levites; he described one house of Eleazar, that was sovereign to the others, and the tother house of Ithamar, that had the other priests and deacons or Levites under him.