29 From Yitshar’s descendants, Kenanyah and his sons worked outside the temple area as officials and judges over Yisrael (Israel).

30 From Hevron’s descendants, Hashavyah and his relatives were responsible for all the work done for Yahweh and for the king in the area west of the Yarden (Jordan) river. There were 1,700 of them who were able to do their work well. 31 According to the records of Hevron’s descendants, Yeriyah was their leader. (In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they’d searched in those records and discovered that there were powerful men in Yazer in Gilead.) 32 Yeriyah had 2,700 relatives who were strong workers and leaders of their families. King David put them in charge of governing the Re’uven and Gad tribes, and the eastern half of the Menasheh (Manasseh) tribe, to ensure that all the people did what God commanded and what the king told them to do.