2 Chronicles 1:2

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Summary

Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

To the captains

The chief

1 Chronicles 15:12

1 Chronicles 24:4

Bible References

To the captains

Then Hezekiah the king arose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the LORD.

For the king had taken counsel, and his officials, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.

Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of ancestral houses and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year?of every division were twenty-four thousand.

And David assembled all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, and the officers of the companies who served the king by division, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

The chief

and said to them, "You are the heads of the ancestral houses of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of ancestral houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.