Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out.

Their fellow Levites were in charge of the storehouses in God’s temple and the storehouses containing consecrated items.

As for the Hebronites: Jeriah was the leader of the Hebronites according to the genealogical records. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they examined the records and discovered there were highly respected men in Jazer in Gilead.

The following is a record of the armed warriors who came with their leaders and joined David in Hebron in order to make David king in Saul’s place, in accordance with the Lord’s decree:

In the east they settled as far as the entrance to the desert that stretches to the Euphrates River, for their cattle had increased in numbers in the land of Gilead.

They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.

These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, after the ark was placed there.

Dodai the Ahohite was in charge of the division assigned the second month; Mikloth was the next in rank. His division consisted of 24,000 men.

They crossed the Jordan River in the first month, when it was overflowing its banks, and routed those living in all the valleys to the east and west.

David lived in the fortress; for this reason it is called the City of David.

For I have not lived in a house from the time I brought Israel up from Egypt to the present day. I have lived in a tent that has been in various places.

The half-tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan as far as Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They grew in number.

The descendants of Gad lived near them in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah.

Shaharaim fathered sons in Moab after he divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. They also lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

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

Abishai son of Zeruiah killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord.

He gave him the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the Lord’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service,

The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, Dara – five in all.