These who are named above were the leaders of their clans. Their extended families increased greatly in numbers.

From the half tribe of Manasseh there were 18,000 who had been designated by name to come and make David king.

Joining them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the Lord. (For his loyal love endures!)

The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there.

They allotted these previously named cities from the territory of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.