⁶ And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men.

¹² And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

⁷ Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.

²⁸ And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.

⁸ All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom.

¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;

¹⁴ And their brothers, men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

¹² Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

³ Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.