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by the name of your ancestral houses and your divisions
The word "name" is a collective noun, referring to each name of each ancestral house and each division. Your language may need to say "according to the names of your ancestral houses and your divisions."
your ancestral houses
The word "house" is a metonym for the family that lives in the house. Alternate translation: "the families that are descendants of your ancestors" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)
divisions
groups into which the people had divided the priests and Levites
the written instructions of David ... and those of Solomon, his son
"the instructions that David ... and Solomon, his son, wrote"