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The people gave their blessing on all the men who volunteered to settle in Jerusalem.

These are the provincial leaders[a] who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities, some of the descendants of Judah and some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.)

Of the descendants of Judah:

Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, from the descendants of Perez;

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 11:3 tn Heb “the heads of the province.”