From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

The Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites. ¹ 

Some from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim and Manasseh settled in Jerusalem. ¹ 

from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel; from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;

from the descendants of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei; from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.

The singers ¹  were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites

From the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.

From the priests: Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jakin;

(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)

Some of the Judean divisions of the Levites settled in Benjamin.

Pairs ¹  of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff ¹  between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.

So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; one of his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; one of the descendants of Merari, ¹  Ethan son of Kushaiah;

The priest will then pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand, ¹ 

He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

From the descendants of Zerah: Jeuel. Their relatives numbered 690.

They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the Lord’s temple.

I called ¹  to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, ²  and I was delivered from my enemies.

Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed. ¹