17. and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
19. Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
20. The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
21. But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
22. The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.
23. For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
24. Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
25. As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
26. in Yeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,
27. in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,
28. in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
29. in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
30. Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.
31. The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,