The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, according to their records.

The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He would send as tribute to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

The sons of Caleb, Jerahmeel's brother: His firstborn Mesha, the father of Ziph, and his second son Mareshah, the father of Hebron.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites by their families.

son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.

By his wife Hodesh he fathered Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malkam,

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth -- three in all.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the Levites, listed by their families.

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth.

"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.