CHAPTER 11

¹And the officers of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots in order to bring one out of ten to settle in Jerusalem the holy city and the other nine parts in the towns. ²And the people blessed all who answered the call to settle in Jerusalem. ³And these are the chiefs of the province who settled in Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, Israel, the priests and the Levites and the temple laborers and the sons of Solomon’s servants each settled in his holding. ⁴Of the Judahites: Athaiah son of Uzziah son of Zechariah son of Amariah son of Shephatiah son of Mahalaleel, of the sons of Perez, ⁵and Maaseiah son of Baruch son of Col-Hozeh son of Hazaiah son of Adaiah son of Joiarib son of Zechariah son of the Shilohite. ⁶All the sons of Perez settling in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight men of worth. ⁷And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam son of Joed son of Pedaiah son of Kolaiah son of Maaseiah son of Ithiel son of Jesaiah. ⁸And after him Gabbai and Sallai—nine hundred twenty-eight. ⁹And Joel son of Zichri was the officer over them, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second in command over thecity. ¹⁰Of the priests, Jedaiah son of Joiarib, Jachin, ¹¹Seraiah son of Hilkiah son of Meshullam son of Zadok son of Meraioth son of Ahitub, prince of the house of God, ¹²and their brothers, doers of the task of the house, eight hundred twenty-two, and Adaiah son of Jeroham son of Pelaliah son of Amzi son of Zechariah son of Pashur son of Malchijah, ¹³and his brothers the patriarchal chiefs, two hundred forty-two, and Amashai son of Azareel son of Ahzai son of Meshillemoth son of Immer, ¹⁴and their brothers, the men of worth, a hundred twenty-eight, and Zabdiel son of Haggedolim was officer over them. ¹⁵And of the Levites, Shemaiah son of Hashub son of Azrikam son of Hashabiah son of Bunni, ¹⁶and Shabbethai and Jozabad were over the external tasks for the house of God, of the chiefs of the Levites. ¹⁷And Mattaniah son of Micha son of Zabdi son of Asaph head of the praise for the prayer of Judah, and Bakbukiah, of his brothers, was second in command, and Abda son of Shammua son of Galal son of Jeduthun, ¹⁸all the Levites in the holy city—two hundred eighty-four. ¹⁹And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who guarded the gates—a hundred seventy-two. ²⁰And the rest of Israel, the priests, the Levites, in all the towns of Judah, each in his estate. ²¹And the temple laborers living in the Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple laborers. ²²And the officer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani son of Hashabiah son of Mattaniah son of Micha, of the sons of the Asaphite choristers who were over the task of the house of God. ²³For the king’s command was upon them and a solemn commitment day after day. ²⁴And Pethahiah son of Meshezabeel of the sons of Zerah son of Judah was agent for the king in everything concerning the people. ²⁵And in the outlying villages in their fields some of the Judahites settled in Kiriath-Arba and its hamlets and in Dibon and its hamlets and in Jekabzeel and its outlying villages, ²⁶and in Jeshua and in Moladah and in Beth-Pelet, ²⁷and in Hazar-Shual and in Beersheba and its hamlets, ²⁸and in Ziklag and in Meconah and in its hamlets, ²⁹and in En-Rimmon and in Zorah and in Jarmuth, ³⁰Zanoah, Adullam, and their out-lying villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its hamlets. And they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom. ³¹And the Benjaminites from Geba, Michmash, Aija, and Bethel and its hamlets, ³²Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, ³³Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, ³⁴Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, ³⁵Lod, Ono, the valley of Ge-Harashim. ³⁶And from the Levites, divisions of Judah were for Benjamin.