1 Chronicles 9:2
Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
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Joshua 9:21The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
Ezra 2:43The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Ezra 2:70So the priests and the Levites, with some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Nehemiah 7:60All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.
Nehemiah 10:29joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Nehemiah 11:3Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah, everyone lived in his possession in their cities—Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 9:2-14
Genealogies. ( b. c. 700.) 1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression. 2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims. 3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh; 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of… Read the whole commentary →