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1 Chronicles 9:2

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Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

Now the first {H7223} inhabitants {H3427} that dwelt in their possessions {H272} in their cities {H5892} were, the Israelites {H3478}, the priests {H3548}, Levites {H3881}, and the Nethinims {H5411}.

The first people to return to their possessions in the cities were the Isra'elim, the cohanim, the L'vi'im and the temple servants.

Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

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  • Nehemiah 7:73 (7 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 2:58 (5 votes)

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

  • Ezra 8:20 (5 votes)

    Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

  • Ezra 2:43 (5 votes)

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

  • Ezra 2:70 (5 votes)

    So the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

  • Nehemiah 7:60 (4 votes)

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

  • Nehemiah 11:3 (2 votes)

    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.