23. There was, in fact, a command of the king regarding them, and an ordinance regulating the singers’ daily tasks.
24. Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.
25. As for the farming settlements with their fields:Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;
26. in Jeshua, Moladah, Beth-pelet,
27. Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba and its villages;
28. in Ziklag and Meconah and its villages;
29. in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth, and
30. Zanoah and Adullam with their villages;in Lachish with its fields and Azekah and its villages.So they settled from Beer-sheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
31. Benjamin’s descendants:from Geba, Michmash, Aija,and Bethel — and its villages,
32. Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
33. Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
34. Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
35. Lod, and Ono, the Valley of Craftsmen.
36. Some of the Judean divisions of Levites were in Benjamin.