Quotes About Community

Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.

So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.

Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were the sons of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

and the clans of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites.

The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The children of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, their sister Shelomith,

and five others: Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed.

The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani—seven in all.

These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.

Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.

The sons of Hodiahís wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)

These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.

They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—