19. The gatekeepers were Akkub, Talmon, and their kinsmen, who kept watch over the gates; one hundred and seventy-two in number.
20. The rest of Israel, including priests and Levites, were in all the other cities of Judah in their own inheritances.
21. The temple servants lived on Ophel. Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of the temple servants.
22. The prefect of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi, son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micah; he was one of the descendants of Asaph, the singers appointed to the service of the house of God—
23. for they had been appointed by royal decree, and there was a fixed schedule for the singers assigning them their daily duties.
24. Pethahiah, son of Meshezabel, a descendant of Zerah, son of Judah, was royal deputy in all affairs that concerned the people.
25. As concerns their villages with their fields: Judahites lived in Kiriath-arba and its dependencies, in Dibon and its dependencies, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
26. in Jeshua, Moladah, Beth-pelet,
27. in Hazarshual, in Beer-sheba and its dependencies,
28. in Ziklag, in Meconah and its dependencies,
29. in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
30. Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its dependencies. They were settled from Beer-sheba to Ge-hinnom.
31. Benjaminites were in Geba, Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its dependencies,
32. Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
33. Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
34. Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
35. Lod, Ono, and the Valley of the Artisans.