2 Chronicles 23:2
Good News Translation
They traveled to all the cities of Judah and brought back with them to Jerusalem the Levites and all the heads of the clans.

New Revised Standard Version
They went around through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the towns of Judah, and the heads of families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
These five men went to the towns in Judah and called together the Levites and the clan leaders. They all came to Jerusalem

New American Bible
They journeyed about Judah, gathering the Levites from all the cities of Judah and also the heads of the Israelite families, and they came to Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

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Psalm 112:5 Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:

Matthew 10:16 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

Ephesians 5:15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

2 Chronicles 11:13-17 And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to him out of all their seats, . . .

1 Chronicles 15:12 And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:

1 Chronicles 24:6 And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe a Levite, wrote them down before the king and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the priestly and Levitical families: one house, which was over the rest, of Eleazar: and another house, which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.

Context
Joash Anointed King in Judah
1And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them. 2And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.3And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 11:13
And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to him out of all their seats,

2 Chronicles 21:2
And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the sons of Josaphat king of Juda.

2 Chronicles 23:1
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