besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singing-men and singing-women.

And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.

And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,

And from that time forth the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held the spears, and the shields, and the bows, and the corslets; and the captains were behind all the house of Judah.

After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the chief of the half district of Keilah, for his district.

After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the chief of the half district of Keilah.