17. Mattaniah the son of Mika, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the first to begin the thanksgiving at prayer, Bakbukiah was the second out of his relatives, and then Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.
19. Moreover, the gatekeepers,Akkub, Talmon, and their relatives who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred and seventy-two.
20. The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the cities of Judah, every one tending to his own inheritance.
21. But the temple servants lived in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were over them.
22. The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mika. Some of the sons of Asaph were the singers attending to the work of the house of God,
23. for the king’s regulation about them made their unity a daily issue.
24. Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was the king’s assistant in all matters concerning the people.
25. For the villages located by their fields, some of the people of Judah lived at Kiriath Arba and its villages, others at Dibon and its villages, or at Jekabzeel and its villages,
26. as well as at Jeshua, at Moladah, and at Beth Pelet,
27. and at Hazar Shual, and at Beersheba and its villages,
28. and at Ziklag, at Mekonah and its villages,
29. and at En Rimmon, at Zorah, at Jarmuth,
30. Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, at Lachish and its fields, and at Azekah and its villages. So they lived from Beersheba as far as the Valley of Hinnom.