From their highland headquarters and from sixty-one far-scattered settlements, Van and Amadon recruited a corps of over three thousand willing and enthusiastic workers who, in solemn assembly, dedicated themselves to this mission of preparing for the promised — at least expected — Son.
Close in meaning, found by a language model. A match does not mean the teachings are the same.
or in like manner, the six hundred thousand footmen who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.
David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us. Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
I gathered them together to the river called Theras. There we pitched our tents three days, and I inspected them. When I had found there none of the priests and Levites, then sent I to Eleazar, Iduel, Maasmas, Elnathan, Samaias, Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding. I asked them to go to Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of the treasury, and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in our Lord’s house. By the mighty hand of our Lord, they brought to us men of understanding of the sons of Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen, and Asebias, Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men; and of the temple servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. The list of all their names was reported.