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The eighteenth to Hanani: hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:

The nineteenth to Mallothi, hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:

The twentieth to Eliathah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:

The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue.

The two and twentieth to Giddalti, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.

The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.

The foure and twentieth to Romamti-Ezer, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.

Also vnto Shemaiah his sonne were sonnes borne, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.

Also Hosah of the children of Merari, had sonnes: Simri the chiefe, (for though he was not the first borne, yet his father made him the chiefe)

And the lot Eastward fel to Shelemiah; then for Zechariah his sonne (a wise counseller:) they cast lots, and his lot came out Northward.

To Obed-Edom Southward, and to his sonnes, the house of Asuppim.

The sonnes of Iehieli, Zetham and Ioel his brother, which were ouer the treasures of the house of the Lord.

And his brethren by Eliezer: Rehabiah his sonne, and Ieshaiah his sonne, and Ioram his sonne, and Zichri his sonne, & Shelomith his sonne.

Which Shelomith and his brethren, were ouer all the treasures of the dedicate things, which Dauid the king and the chiefe fathers, the captaines ouer thousands and hundreds, and the captaines of the hoste had dedicated.

And all that Samuel the Seer, and Saul the sonne of Kish, and Abner the sonne of Ner, and Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah had dedicated, and whosoeuer had dedicated any thing, it was vnder the hand of Shelomith and of his brethren.

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sonnes, were for the outward busines ouer Israel, for officers and Iudges.

And of the Hebronits, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seuen hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Iorden westward, in all busines of the Lord, and in the seruice of the king.

Among the Hebronites was Ieriiah the chiefe, euen among the Hebronits, according to the generations of his fathers: in the fourtieth yeere of the reigne of Dauid, they were sought for, and there were found among them mightie men of valour, at Iazer of Gilead.

And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seuen hundred chiefe fathers, whom King Dauid made rulers ouer the Reubenites, the Gadites, & the halfe tribe of Manasseh, for euery matter perteining to God, and affaires of the king.

Ouer the first course for the first moneth was Iashobeam the sonne of Zabdiel, and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.