Cononiah also, and Shemaiah and Nathaneel his brethren,.... See 2 Chronicles 31:12
and Hashabiah, and Jehiel, and Jozabad, chief of the Levites; men of considerable substance, and in good posts and offices:
gave unto the Levites; their poor brethren of that order:
for passover offerings five thousand small cattle; lambs, or kids, or both:
and five hundred oxen; for the feast that followed the passover.