TBESH · H9028
הֶם · hem · their
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 3rd person masculine plural
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הֶם (hem) means “their” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: hem STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
הֶם · hem · their
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 3rd person masculine plural
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Page 21 of 48. 2365 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;
Read word by wordShallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard the thresholds of the Tent, just as their fathers had been assigned to guard the entrance to the dwelling of the LORD.
Read word by wordThe number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
Read word by wordSo they and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the house of the LORD—the house called the Tent.
Read word by wordTheir relatives came from their villages at fixed times to serve with them for seven-day periods.
Read word by wordSome of their Kohathite relatives were responsible for preparing the rows of the showbread every Sabbath.
Read word by wordAll these were heads of Levite families, chiefs according to their genealogies, and they lived in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordMikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordAnd Azel had six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
Read word by wordWhen all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.
Read word by wordThey stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.
Read word by wordThey put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
Read word by wordall their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Read word by wordsaying, “Far be it from me, my God, to do this! How can I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” Because they had brought it at the risk of their lives, David refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
Read word by wordSome Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.9
And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.18
They helped David against the raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and commanders in the army.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.22
From Benjamin, the kinsmen of Saul: 3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to the house of Saul up to that time.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.30
From Ephraim: 20,800 mighty men of valor, famous among their own clans.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.31
From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.33
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.40
And he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our brothers in all the land of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands, so that they may join us.
Read word by wordWhen the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went out to face them.
Read word by wordThere the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
Read word by wordAnd the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.
Read word by wordDavid also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
Read word by wordSo the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
Read word by wordand with them their brothers next in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.
Read word by wordalong with Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.
Read word by wordSo Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
Read word by wordSo they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.
Read word by wordWhen the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
Read word by wordThen David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
Read word by wordSo David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
Read word by wordBut Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
Read word by wordBut Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.
Read word by wordWhen David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Read word by wordThe Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
Read word by wordEleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.
Read word by wordThese were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordbut their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,
Read word by wordSo the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordThese were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Read word by wordBut Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
Read word by wordWith the help of Eleazar’s descendant Zadok and Ithamar’s descendant Ahimelech, David divided them according to the offices of their service.
Read word by wordSince more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than those of Ithamar, they were divided accordingly. There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of Eleazar and eight from the descendants of Ithamar.
Read word by wordThis was their appointed order for service when they entered the house of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
Read word by wordAnd the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites, according to their families.
Read word by wordAs their brothers the descendants of Aaron did, they also cast lots in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.
Read word by wordAdditionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list of the men who performed this service:
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