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Summary of the Genealogies

All of Israel was enumerated by genealogy and recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel[a] as[b] Judah was being taken captive into exile to Babylon due to their disobedience.[c] The first to settle on their own property in their own towns of Israel were priests, descendants of Levi, and the Temple Servants.[d]

Jerusalem after the Exile

In Jerusalem there lived some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh including[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 9:1 An ancient chronicle of Israel, apparently now lost
  2. 1 Chronicles 9:1 Or and
  3. 1 Chronicles 9:1 Or unfaithfulness
  4. 1 Chronicles 9:2 Heb. Nethinim; i.e. a division of special assistants to the descendants of Levi, originally appointed by King David; and so throughout the book; cf. Ezra 2:58; 2:70; 7:7,24; 8:17,20.
  5. 1 Chronicles 9:3 The Heb. lacks including