and his brothers, chiefs of fathers' [houses], two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;
The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of the house of God.
In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' [houses]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' [houses]; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' [houses], were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.
So stood the two companies of those who gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of the house of God.
It grieved me severely: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room.
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms: and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.
Then I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
"Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;
"The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it."
These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
"Count the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward."
The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.
"Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
"Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;
"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;
Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses,
even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered:
My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
"Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write every man's name on his rod.
You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
"This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what the LORD says'?
Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
"Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel."
"Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
"If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:
The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel:
But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar's household.
We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
the LORD's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
the LORD will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD's house forever. A Psalm by David.
the LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.
so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
They are planted in the LORD's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.
Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, the LORD, forevermore.
He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;
Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
the LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
in the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the LORD's house!"
For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.
Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
"Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD's house!
you who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of our God's house.
House of Israel, praise the LORD! House of Aaron, praise the LORD!
House of Levi, praise the LORD! You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!
Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
the LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
She said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house."
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you of this young woman."
The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.
I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
Therefore thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'
"Thus says the LORD of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you.
I will cause it to go out," says the LORD of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."
"Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
Thus says the LORD of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.
Thus says the LORD of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace."
I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.
My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For the LORD of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
"I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them.
the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of the LORD.
In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
the LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.
I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
"In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in the LORD's house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Armies.
those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malcam,
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.
The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the LORD, their God, will visit them, and restore them.
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