¹⁶ By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family, and the pool which was made and the house of the men of war.

²⁹ My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

²⁰ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

¹¹ And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

³ Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

¹² Near them was Shallum, the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half Jerusalem, with his daughters.

⁹ Near them was working Rephaiah, the son of Hur, the ruler of half Jerusalem.

⁵⁸ Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;

⁷ See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

¹⁴ And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the doorway of the waste, building it up and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods.

¹⁴ And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

¹⁰ And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

¹¹ And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

⁷ And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

⁴⁵ And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

²⁷ So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

²⁸ And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.