The World English Bible (WEB), Complete

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[17:1] It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh dwells under curtains. [17:2] Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you. [17:3] It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, [17:4] Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in: [17:5] for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. [17:6] In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? [17:7] Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel: [17:8] and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. [17:9] I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first, [17:10] and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. [17:11] It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. [17:12] He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. [17:13] I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; [17:14] but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever. [17:15] According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David. [17:16] Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? [17:17] This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God. [17:18] What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant. [17:19] Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things. [17:20] Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. [17:21] What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? [17:22] For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. [17:23] Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. [17:24] Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your servant is established before you. [17:25] For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray before you. [17:26] Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant: [17:27] and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.

[18:1] After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines. [18:2] He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. [18:3] David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates. [18:4] David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. [18:5] When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. [18:6] Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. [18:7] David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. [18:8] From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. [18:9] When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, [18:10] he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. [18:11] These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. [18:12] Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. [18:13] He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. [18:14] David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his people. [18:15] Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; [18:16] and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe; [18:17] and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

[19:1] It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. [19:2] David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. [19:3] But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? [19:4] So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. [19:5] Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards are grown, and then return. [19:6] When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. [19:7] So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. [19:8] When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. [19:9] The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field. [19:10] Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. [19:11] The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon. [19:12] He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. [19:13] Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good. [19:14] So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. [19:15] When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. [19:16] When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. [19:17] It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. [19:18] The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians the men of seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the army. [19:19] When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

[20:1] It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. [20:2] David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. [20:3] He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. [20:4] It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued. [20:5] There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. [20:6] There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant. [20:7] When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him. [20:8] These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

[21:1] Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. [21:2] David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them. [21:3] Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel? [21:4] Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. [21:5] Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword. [21:6] But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab. [21:7] God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. [21:8] David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. [21:9] Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, [21:10] Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you. [21:11] So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take your choice: [21:12] either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. [21:13] David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. [21:14] So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. [21:15] God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. [21:16] David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. [21:17] David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued. [21:18] Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. [21:19] David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh. [21:20] Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. [21:21] As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. [21:22] Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people. [21:23] Ornan said to David, Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give you the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all. [21:24] King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost. [21:25] So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. [21:26] David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. [21:27] Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath. [21:28] At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. [21:29] For the tent of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. [21:30] But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.

[22:1] Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel. [22:2] David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God. [22:3] David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; [22:4] and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. [22:5] David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. [22:6] Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel. [22:7] David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God. [22:8] But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. [22:9] Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days: [22:10] he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever. [22:11] Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you. [22:12] May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God. [22:13] Then you shall prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. [22:14] Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one million talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them. [22:15] There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: [22:16] of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you. [22:17] David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, [22:18] Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people. [22:19] Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.

[23:1] Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. [23:2] He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. [23:3] The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. [23:4] Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges; [23:5] and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise. [23:6] David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. [23:7] Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. [23:8] The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three. [23:9] The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan. [23:10] The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei. [23:11] Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning. [23:12] The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. [23:13] The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever. [23:14] But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi. [23:15] The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. [23:16] The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. [23:17] The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. [23:18] The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. [23:19] The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. [23:20] The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second. [23:21] The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. [23:22] Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them to wife. [23:23] The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. [23:24] These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward. [23:25] For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever: [23:26] and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all its vessels for its service. [23:27] For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. [23:28] For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God; [23:29] for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; [23:30] and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening; [23:31] and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh; [23:32] and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

[24:1] These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. [24:2] But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. [24:3] David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service. [24:4] There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight. [24:5] Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. [24:6] Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. [24:7] Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, [24:8] the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, [24:9] the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, [24:10] the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, [24:11] the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, [24:12] the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, [24:13] the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, [24:14] the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, [24:15] the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, [24:16] the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, [24:17] the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, [24:18] the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. [24:19] This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him. [24:20] Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. [24:21] Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. [24:22] Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. [24:23] The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. [24:24] The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. [24:25] The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. [24:26] The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno. [24:27] The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. [24:28] Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. [24:29] Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. [24:30] The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses. [24:31] These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' houses of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

[25:1] Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was: [25:2] of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king. [25:3] Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh. [25:4] Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. [25:5] All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. [25:6] All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king. [25:7] The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight. [25:8] They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. [25:9] Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve: [25:10] the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:11] the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:12] the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:13] the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:14] the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:15] the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:16] the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:17] the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:18] the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:19] the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:20] for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:21] for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:22] for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:23] for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:24] for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:25] for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:26] for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:27] for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:28] for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:29] for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:30] for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve: [25:31] for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.

[26:1] For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. [26:2] Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, [26:3] Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. [26:4] Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, [26:5] Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. [26:6] Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor. [26:7] The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. [26:8] All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom. [26:9] Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen. [26:10] Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief), [26:11] Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. [26:12] Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of Yahweh. [26:13] They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate. [26:14] The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. [26:15] To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse. [26:16] To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch. [26:17] Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two. [26:18] For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. [26:19] These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari. [26:20] Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. [26:21] The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. [26:22] The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Yahweh. [26:23] Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: [26:24] and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures. [26:25] His brothers: of Eliezer came Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. [26:26] This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' houses, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated. [26:27] Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Yahweh. [26:28] All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers. [26:29] Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. [26:30] Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king. [26:31] Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' houses. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead. [26:32] His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers' houses, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.