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26 This is a list of the groups of men who guarded the temple gates:
From Korah’s descendants, there was Meshelemiah son of Kore, who was one of Asaph’s descendants.
2 Meshelemiah had seven sons. His oldest son was Zechariah. His other sons were Jediael, Zebadiah, Jathniel, 3 Elam, Jehohanan, and Eliehoenai.
4 Another guard was Obed Edom. He had eight sons.
His oldest son was Shemaiah. His other sons were Jehozabad, Joah, Sakar, Nethanel, 5 Ammiel, Issachar, and Peullethai. Obed Edom had many sons because God had blessed him.
6 Obed Edom’s son Shemaiah also had sons. They were leaders in their father’s family because they were capable warriors.
7 The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad. Shemaiah’s relatives Elihu and Semakiah were also capable men.
8 All of those descendants of Obed Edom and their sons and relatives were capable people and strong workers. Altogether there were 62 of them.
9 Another guard was Meshelemiah. He and his sons and relatives were also capable people. There were 18 of them altogether.
10 Another guard was Hosah, a descendant of Merari. Hosah had four sons. Hosah’s son Shimri was the leader of that family because Hosah appointed him to be the leader, even though Shimri was not Hosah’s oldest son. 11 Hosah’s other sons were Hilkiah, Tabaliah, and Zechariah. Altogether there were 13 sons and relatives of Hosah.
12 Those men were leaders of the groups of men who guarded the gates of the temple. They worked at the temple like their relatives did. 13 By casting lots, the leader of each family chose one gate for their group to guard. All of them, including young men and old men, cast lots. 14 The lot for Shelemiah’s group indicated they would guard the east gate. The group of Shelemiah’s son Zechariah, who was a wise counselor, cast lots. Those lots indicated Zechariah’s group would guard the north gate.
15 The lot for Obed Edom’s group indicated they would guard the south gate, and the lot for Obed Edom’s sons indicated they would guard the entrances to the temple storerooms.
The work for the guards corresponded to what was necessary for each duty. 17 Each day there were six descendants of Levi who guarded the east gate, four who guarded the north gate, four who guarded the south gate, and two at a time who guarded the entrances to the storerooms. 18 At the west gate there were two men who guarded the courtyard and four who guarded the road outside the courtyard.
19 Those were the groups of men who were descendants of Korah and Merari who guarded the gates of the temple.
20 A man from the descendants of Levi, Ahijah, oversaw the places where the temple’s treasures were as well as the places where the Levites kept the gifts that the people brought to the temple. 21 The descendants of Ladan were themselves descendants of Gershon. They were leaders among their family groups. A descendant of this Ladan from the descendants of Gershon was Jehiel. 22 From the sons of Jehiel, Zetham and his younger brother Joel were in charge of the places where the temple’s treasures were.
23 Others who did that work were descendants of Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
24 Shubael, a descendant of Moses’ son Gershom, was another leader in charge of where the treasures were. 25 Others who did that work were the descendants of Gershom’s younger brother Eliezer. Those men were Eliezer’s son Rehabiah, Rehabiah’s son Jeshaiah, Jeshaiah’s son Joram, Joram’s son Zichri, and Zichri’s son Shelomith. 26 Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of all the valuable things that certain people had dedicated to Yahweh. These people who dedicated things included King David, the leaders of the family groups, the army commanders of 1,000 soldiers and commanders of 100 soldiers, as well as other army commanders. 27 They dedicated for the repair of Yahweh’s temple some of the valuable things that those army officers had taken from Israel’s enemies after Israel’s army had defeated enemies in battles. 28 Shelomith and his relatives were also in charge of everything that the prophet Samuel, King Saul, and David’s two army commanders Abner and Joab had dedicated to Yahweh.
29 From the descendants of Izhar, Kenaniah and his sons worked outside the temple area. They were officials and judges in various places in Israel.
30 From the descendants of Hebron, Hashabiah and his relatives were responsible for all the work done for Yahweh and for the king in the area west of the Jordan river. There were 1,700 of them who were able to do their work well. 31 Scribes recorded in the records of Hebron’s descendants that Jeriah was the leader of that family group. When David had been ruling for almost forty years, they searched in those records and found names of capable men descended from Hebron who were at the city of Jazer in the region of Gilead. 32 Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were able to do their work well and who were leaders of their families. King David put them in charge of governing the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the eastern half of the tribe of Manasseh, to ensure that all the people did what God commanded and what the king told them to do.
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