besides their manservants and their maidservants; these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and forty-five singing men and singing women.

And we labored in the work. And half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

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

And the other choirs of praise went across from them, and I after them, and half of the people on the wall, from beyond the Tower of the Furnaces even to the Broad Wall,

And stood the two praise choirs to give thanks in the house of God, and I, and half of the rulers with me.

And it was from that time forth that half of my servants worked in the work, and the other half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the scale-armor. And the rulers were behind all the house of Judah,

After him the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani, repaired. Next to him Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, repaired in his part.

After him their brothers, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, repaired.