Study Desk

They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Yehudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Shim`on, and out of the tribe of the children of Binyamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

and by the borders of the children of Menashsheh, Beit-She'an and its towns, Ta`nakh and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Yosef the son of Yisra'el.

The sons of Yaflet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and `Asvat. These are the children of Yaflet.

All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.

Shacharayim became the father of children in the field of Mo'av, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Ba`ara were his wives.

In Yerushalayim lived of the children of Yehudah, and of the children of Binyamin, and of the children of Efrayim and Menashsheh:

`Utai the son of `Ammihud, the son of `Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Peretz the son of Yehudah.

who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, even the house of the tent, by wards.

Itai the son of Rivai of Gevah of the children of Binyamin, Benayah the Pir`atonite,

There came of the children of Binyamin and Yehudah to the stronghold to David.

The children of Yehudah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.

Of the children of Shim`on, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.

Of the children of Binyamin, the brothers of Sha'ul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Sha'ul.

Of the children of Efrayim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.

Of the children of Yissakhar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Yisra'el ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their mitzvah.

These are the names of the children whom he had in Yerushalayim: Shammua, and Shovav, Natan, and Shlomo,

The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moshe commanded according to the word of the LORD.

You seed of Yisra'el his servant, You children of Ya`akov, his chosen ones.