²⁶ Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

² and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

²⁷ Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

²⁸ Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-Ezer the Annethothite,

⁹ The sixth, for the sixth month, `is' Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, and on his course `are' twenty and four thousand.

¹⁰ The seventh, for the seventh month, `is' Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim, and on his course `are' twenty and four thousand.