1 Mambo ya Nyakati 27 : 9 1st Chronicles chapter 27 verse 9

Akida wa sita wa mwezi wa sita alikuwa Ira, mwana wa Ikeshi, Mtekoi; na katika zamu yake walikuwa watu ishirini na nne elfu.
soma Mlango wa 27

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