1 Chronicles 26:31 -

This verse is at first sight obscure; but its purport is to say that the Hebronite family was, in the lust year of David's reign, found at Jazer of Gilead , which seems a Merarite city ( Joshua 13:25 ; Joshua 21:39 ; Numbers 21:32 ), and that Jerijah ( 1 Chronicles 23:19 ; 1 Chronicles 24:23 ) was then chief of them. He and his brethren were now appointed to the superintendence of the two tribes and a half eastward of Jordan, while "Hashabiah and his brethren" fulfilled the like duties westward of Jordan The number of those east of Jordan constituted overseers seems large in proportion to those mentioned on the west; but we must bear in mind that the numbers of Chenaniah and their range of sphere are not stated. These will presumably complete the six thousand of 1 Chronicles 23:4 . Otherwise we have but to fall back on the conviction that the present account is imperfect as well as brief.