Make the work harder<n id="1" /> for the men so they will keep at it<n id="2" /> and pay no attention to lying words!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

According to David&#8217;s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

All these were the sons of Heman, the king&#8217;s prophet. God had promised him these sons in order to make him prestigious.<n id="1" /> God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.p>

<p class="bodytext">The events of Rehoboam&#8217;s reign, from start to finish, are recorded<n id="1" /> in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records.

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat&#8217;s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Jehu son of Hanani which are included in Scroll of the Kings of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the <sc>Lordsc>, using the psalms<n id="1" /> of David and Asaph the prophet.<n id="2" /> So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe<n id="1" /> gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile.<n id="2" /> Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come<n id="1" /> to you in a dense cloud,<n id="2" /> so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses told the words of the people to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>