And the sons of the singers gathered themselves, both out of the plain country around Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophah,
The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half the Manahethites; the Zorites.
and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
and from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth (for the singers had built themselves villages all around Jerusalem).
And I saw that the portions of the Levites had not been given, for the Levites and the singers who did the work had each man fled to his field.
And after him the priests, the men of the plain, made strong.
And Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do evil to me.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah were a hundred and eighty-eight.