twenty

Of the sonnes of Merari: Asaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundred and twentie.

And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and twentie thousand footmen: Dauid also houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them an hundred charets.

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to helpe Hadarezer king of Zobah, Dauid slew of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Darmesek.

And yet againe there was warre at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were foure and twentie, sixe on each hand, and sixe on each foot. And he also was the sonne of the giant.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a man of measure.

1611 marginal noteHebr. borne to the giant Or, Rapha.

1611 marginal note2.Sam. 21.20.

Of which, twentie and foure thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD: and sixe thousand were Officers and Iudges.

1611 marginal noteOr, to ouersee.

¶ These were the sonnes of Leui after the house of their fathers, euen the chiefe of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polles, that did the worke for the seruice of the house of the LORD, from the age of twentie yeeres and vpward.

1611 marginal noteNum. 10.24.

1611 marginal noteNum. 1.3.

For by the last words of Dauid, the Leuites were numbred from twentie yeeres olde, and aboue:

1611 marginal noteHeb. number.

¶ Nowe the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chiefe fathers and captaines of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that serued the king in any matter of the courses, which came in, and went out moneth by moneth, throughout all the moneths of the yeare, of euery course were twentie and foure thousand.

Ouer the first course for the first moneth was Iashobeam the sonne of Zabdiel, and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.

And ouer the course of the second moneth was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: In his course likewise were twentie and foure thousand.

1611 marginal noteOr, Dodo. 2.Sam. 23.9.