along with Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two leaders from his family.

The whole assembly agreed to do this, for the proposal seemed right to all the people.

In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

David did just as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.

Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Announce every day how he delivers!

The first lot went to Asaph’s son Joseph and his relatives and sons – twelve in all, the second to Gedaliah and his relatives and sons – twelve in all,

Shuppim and Hosah were assigned the west gate, along with the Shalleketh gate on the upper road. One guard was adjacent to another.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, Valley Gate, and at the Angle.

So the soldiers released the captives and the plunder before the officials and the entire assembly.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.

not counting their male and female servants, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers

When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites were living in their towns, the people assembled in Jerusalem.

And between the room above the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and traders worked.

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them both day and night.

There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”

You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant.

But he went no further than the king’s gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.