18. All together 284 Levites lived in the holy city of Jerusalem.
19. The gatekeepers who moved into Jerusalem were Akkub, Talmon, and others with them. There was a total of 172 men who guarded the city gates.
20. The other Israelites, priests, and Levites lived on their own land in all the cities of Judah.
21. The Temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of them.
22. Uzzi son of Bani was appointed over the Levites in Jerusalem. (Bani was the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah. Mattaniah was the son of Mica.) Uzzi was one of Asaph’s descendants, who were the singers responsible for the service of the Temple.
23. The singers were under the king’s orders, which regulated them day by day.
24. Pethahiah son of Meshezabel was the king’s spokesman. (Meshezabel was a descendant of Zerah, the son of Judah.)
25. Some of the people of Judah lived in villages with their surrounding fields. They lived in Kiriath Arba and its surroundings, in Dibon and its surroundings, in Jekabzeel and its surroundings,
26. in Jeshua, Moladah, Beth Pelet,
27. Hazar Shual, Beersheba and its surroundings,
28. in Ziklag and Meconah and its surroundings,
29. in En Rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
30. Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, in Lachish and the fields around it, and in Azekah and its surroundings. So they settled from Beersheba all the way to the Valley of Hinnom.
31. The descendants of the Benjaminites from Geba lived in Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its surroundings,
32. in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
33. Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
34. Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
35. Lod, Ono, and in the Valley of the Craftsmen.
36. Some groups of the Levites from Judah settled in the land of Benjamin.