18. So there were 284 Levites who moved into Jerusalem, the holy city.
19. These are the gatekeepers who moved into Jerusalem: Akkub, Talmon, and 172 of their brothers. They watched and guarded the gates of the city.
20. The other Israelites, and the other priests and Levites, lived in all the towns of Judah. Everyone lived on the land that their ancestors had owned.
21. The Temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel. Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of the Temple servants.
22. The officer over the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi. Uzzi was the son of Bani (the son of Hashabiah, who was the son of Mattaniah, who was the son of Mica). Uzzi was a descendant of Asaph. Asaph’s descendants were the singers who were responsible for the service in God’s Temple.
23. The singers obeyed orders from the king, which told them what to do from day to day.
24. Pethahiah son of Meshezabel told the people what the king wanted done. (Meshezabel was one of the descendants of Zerah. Zerah was Judah’s son.)
25. The people of Judah lived in these towns: In Kiriath Arba and the small towns around it, in Dibon and the small towns around it, in Jekabzeel and the small towns around it,
26. and in Jeshua, in Moladah, in Beth Pelet,
27. in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and the small towns around it,
28. and in Ziklag, in Meconah and the small towns around it,
29. and in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
30. and in Zanoah and Adullam and the small towns around them, in Lachish and the fields around it, and in Azekah and the small towns around it. So the people of Judah were living all the way from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
31. The descendants of the family of Benjamin from Geba lived in Micmash, Aija, Bethel, and the small towns around it,
32. in Anathoth, Nob, and Ananiah,
33. in Hazor, Ramah, and Gittaim,
34. in Hadid, Zeboim, and Neballat,