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.