1 Chronicles 26:29
Good News Translation
Among the descendants of Izhar, Chenaniah and his sons were assigned administrative duties: keeping records and settling disputes for the people of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

Contemporary English Version
Chenaniah from the Izhar clan and his sons were government officials and judges. They did not work at the temple.

New American Bible
Among the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were in charge of Israel’s civil affairs as officials and judges.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them.

Izharites

1 Chronicles 26:23 With the Amramites, and Isaarites, and Hebronites, and Ozielites.

1 Chronicles 23:12 The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel, four.

the outward

2 Chronicles 34:13 But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.

Nehemiah 11:16 And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business of the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,

officers

1 Chronicles 23:4 Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges.

2 Chronicles 19:8-11 In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and chiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause of the Lord for the inhabitants thereof. . . .

Context
The Treasurers, Officers, and Judges
28And all these things that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Cis, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had sanctified: and whosoever had sanctified those things, they were under the hand of Selemith and his brethren. 29But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them.30And of the Hebronites Hasabias, and his brethren most able men, a thousand seven hundred had the charge over Israel beyond the Jordan westward, in all the works of the Lord, and for the service of the king.…
Cross References
Numbers 3:27
Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names:

1 Chronicles 23:4
Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges.

1 Chronicles 26:28
And all these things that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Cis, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had sanctified: and whosoever had sanctified those things, they were under the hand of Selemith and his brethren.

Nehemiah 11:16
And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business of the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,

1 Chronicles 26:28
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