So they went up to the town. As they were heading for the middle of the town, Samuel was coming in their direction to go up to the high place.

They are with Saul and the whole Israelite army in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

They told David, “The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors.”

After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke through the old prophet

He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. Hazael attacked their eastern border.

The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.”

They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there and worked for the king.

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

These were the descendants of Ehud who were leaders of the families living in Geba who were forced to move to Manahath:

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

he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary (that is, the tabernacle).

They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

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.

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

According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted.