1 Chronicles 9:34
34These were heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.1 Chronicles 24:31
31These also, the head of each father’s house and his younger brother alike, acast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, bZadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites.1 Chronicles 26:32
32King David appointed him and his brothers, 2,700 men of ability, heads of fathers’ houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites for everything pertaining to God and for cthe affairs of the king.2 Chronicles 26:12
12The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600.Ezra 1:5
5Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, deveryone whose spirit eGod had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.Nehemiah 7:70-71
70Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The fgovernor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics ▼▼A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests’ garments and 500 minas ▼▼A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
of silver. ▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew lacks minas of silver
71And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
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