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The Captives Who Returned to Jerusalem
Now these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city.
Now these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city.
Exiles Who Returned with Zerubbabel
Here is the list of the Jewish exiles of the provinces who returned from their captivity. King Nebuchadnezzar had deported them to Babylon, but now they returned to Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah where they originally lived.
Here is the list of the Jewish exiles of the provinces who returned from their captivity. King Nebuchadnezzar had deported them to Babylon, but now they returned to Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah where they originally lived.
Their leaders were Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.
This is the number of the men of Israel who returned from exile:
This is the number of the men of Israel who returned from exile:
the people of Pahath-Moab, of the people of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve;
The family of Pahath-moab (descendants of Jeshua and Joab)2,812
the people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
the people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five;
The citizens of Lod, Hadid, and Ono725
The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;
These are the priests who returned from exile:
| The family of Jedaiah (through the line of Jeshua) | 973 |
These are the Levites who returned from exile:
| The families of Jeshua and Kadmiel (descendants of Hodaviah) | 74 |
The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.
The singers of the family of Asaph128
The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.
The gatekeepers of the families of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai139
The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
The descendants of the following Temple servants returned from exile:
Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
The descendants of these servants of King Solomon returned from exile:
Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,
Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,
Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-hazzebaim, and Ami.
All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
In all, the Temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants numbered 392.
Another group returned at this time from the towns of Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer. However, they could not prove that they or their families were descendants of Israel.
the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two;
This group included the families of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda — a total of 652 people.
Three families of priests — Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai — also returned. (This Barzillai had married a woman who was a descendant of Barzillai of Gilead, and he had taken her family name.)
These sought their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they were excluded from the priesthood as defiled.
They searched for their names in the genealogical records, but they were not found, so they were disqualified from serving as priests.
The governor told them not to eat the priests’ share of food from the sacrifices until a priest could consult the LORD about the matter by using the Urim and Thummim — the sacred lots.
The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
So a total of 42,360 people returned to Judah,
besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred men and women singers.
in addition to 7,337 servants and 200 singers, both men and women.
Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,
They took with them 736 horses, 245 mules,
their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and their donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Some of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to erect it in its place:
When they arrived at the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders made voluntary offerings toward the rebuilding of God’s Temple on its original site,
According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly garments.
So the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, the Temple servants, and some of the common people settled in villages near Jerusalem. The rest of the people returned to their own towns throughout Israel.