²⁶This Shelomoth and his brethren were over all the treasuries of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ _houses_, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated. ²⁷Out of the spoil¹ won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of the LORD. ²⁸And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomoth², and of his brethren. ¹ Hebrew _Out of the battles and the spoil_. ² Hebrew _Shelomith_. =26.= _David the king_] Compare xviii. 11. ²⁹Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. =29.= _Izharites_] Compare xxiii. 12. _the outward business_] This business is here expressly defined as work “for officers and judges,” as compared with the duties of maintaining the worship of the Temple and the construction or repair of the fabric (compare xxiii. 4; 2 Chronicles xix. 11; Nehemiah xi. 16). ³⁰Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond Jordan westward; for all the business of the LORD, and for the service of the king. =30.= _the Hebronites_] Compare xxiii. 12. _had the oversight of Israel_] How their duties were related to those of Chenaniah and his sons (verse 29) is not made clear. _beyond Jordan westward_] Compare Joshua xxii. 7, Revised Version Western Palestine is meant. ³¹Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ _houses_. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead. =31.= _Jerijah_] called _Jeriah_ (Hebrew _Jerijahu_) in xxiii. 19. _at Jazer_] compare vi. 81 (vi. 66, Hebrew); Numbers xxi. 32, Revised Version The Eastern Hebronites were given office east of Jordan; compare verse 32. ³²And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred, heads of fathers’ _houses_, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king. =32.= _his brethren_] i.e. the brethren of Jerijah. It is remarkable that their number should be given as 2700 for the two and a half tribes, whereas the overseers for the nine and a half tribes west of Jordan are said to number only 1700. Curtis sees in this a hint of the importance of Gilead in the Chronicler’s period (compare 1 Maccabees v. 45). CHAPTER XXVII. THE ORGANISATION OF THE MILITARY AND CIVIL OFFICIALS. =1‒15.= THE DIVISIONS OF THE ARMY BY COURSES.