6:17 In those days the aristocrats of Judah repeatedly sent letters to Tobiah, and responses from Tobiah were repeatedly coming to them.
11:20 And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.
11:24 Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was an adviser to the king 2 in every matter pertaining to the people.
12:8 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who together with his colleagues 3 was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.
1 tn Heb “burden-bearers.”
2 tn Heb “to the hand of the king.”
3 tn Heb “he and his brothers.”
4 tn Or “prescribed by” (NIV, NLT); TEV “of the kind played by.” The precise relationship of these musical instruments to David is not clear.
5 tn Heb “was before them.”
6 tn Heb “people and people.”