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All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers' houses, choice men, mighty men of valor, chief leaders. And they were recorded by genealogies among the army fit for battle; their number was twenty-six thousand.

Also Shaharaim had children in the country of Moab, after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.

Now in Jerusalem the children of Judah dwelt, and some of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:

Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King's Gate on the east.

So they and their children were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, the house of the tabernacle, by assignment.

And these are the names of his children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, 1 Chronicles 14:3:5">[fn] Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

Then David assembled the children of Aaron and the Levites:

And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

O seed of Israel His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests.

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the first (for though he was not the firstborn, his father made him the first),

And the children of Israel, according to their number, the heads of fathers' houses, the captains of thousands and hundreds and their officers, served the king in every matter of the military divisions. These divisions came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each division having twenty-four thousand.

he was of the children of Perez, and the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.

The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

over the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; over the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;

Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.

1 Kings 8:1-13">[xr] Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD up from the City of David, which is Zion.

Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they had come out of Egypt.

And there I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with the children of Israel."