Nehemiah 11:3

Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

Now these are the chief {H7218} of the province {H4082} that dwelt {H3427} in Jerusalem {H3389}: but in the cities {H5892} of Judah {H3063} dwelt {H3427} every one {H376} in his possession {H272} in their cities {H5892}, to wit, Israel {H3478}, the priests {H3548}, and the Levites {H3881}, and the Nethinims {H5411}, and the children {H1121} of Solomon's {H8010} servants {H5650}.

In the cities of Y'hudah, everyone lived on his own property - the people of Isra'el, the cohanim, the L'vi'im, the temple servants and the descendants of Shlomo's servants. But the leaders of the province lived in Yerushalayim.

These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—

Now these are the chiefs of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants.

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Cross-References

  • Nehemiah 7:73 (3 votes)

    So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities.

  • Ezra 2:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Now these [are] the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

  • Ezra 2:43 (3 votes)

    The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

  • 1 Chronicles 9:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:34 (3 votes)

    These chief fathers of the Levites [were] chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 2:55 (2 votes)

    The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,

  • Ezra 2:58 (2 votes)

    All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.