Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

The seventh for the seventh month [was] Helez of Pelonite of the children of Ephraim; and in his division [were] twenty-four thousand.

Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

The sixth for the sixth month [was] Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and in his division [were] twenty-four thousand.

And Joab sent to Tekoa, and took from there a cunning woman, and said to her, Mourn, and put on mourning apparel, and anoint yourself not with oil, and you shall be as a woman mourning for one that is dead thus for many days.