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1Now the leaders of the people stayed in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots for one out of ten to come and live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine-tenths remained in their towns.[#11:1 Neh 7:4; #11:1 Neh 10:34; #11:1 Neh 11:18; Is 48:2; Rv 11:2; 21:2; #11:1 Ezr 2:70; Neh 7:73]
2The people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.[#11:2 Jdg 5:9]
3These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns #— #the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants #— #[#11:3 1Ch 9:2–34; #11:3 Neh 7:73; 11:20; #11:3 Neh 7:39–43,46–60]
4while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem):
20The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.[#11:20 Nm 36:3; Neh 11:3]
21The temple servants lived on Ophel; Ziha and Gishpa supervised the temple servants.[#11:21 Neh 3:26]
22The leader of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the descendants of Asaph, who were singers for the service of God’s house.
23There was, in fact, a command of the king regarding them, and an ordinance regulating the singers’ daily tasks.[#11:22–23 1Ch 15:16; Neh 7:44]
24Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.[#11:24 Gn 38:30; 1Ch 2:43; #11:24 Neh 2:1; 5:14; #11:24 Lit was at the king’s hand]
25As for the farming settlements with their fields:
Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba
and Dibon and their surrounding villages, and Jekabzeel and its settlements;
26in Jeshua, Moladah, Beth-pelet,[#11:26 Jos 15:26–28]
27Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba and its surrounding villages;[#11:27 2Sm 17:11]
28in Ziklag and Meconah and its surrounding villages;[#11:28 1Sm 27:6]
29in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth, and[#11:29 Jos 15:33; #11:29 Jos 10:5]
30Zanoah and Adullam with their settlements;[#11:30 Jos 15:34–35]
in Lachish with its fields and Azekah and its surrounding villages.
So they settled from Beer-sheba to Hinnom Valley.
31Benjamin’s descendants:
from Geba, , Michmash, Aija,
and Bethel and its surrounding villages,
32Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,[#11:32 Jos 21:18; Jr 1:1; #11:32 1Sm 21:1; 22:9]
33Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,[#11:33 Jos 11:1; #11:33 Jos 18:25; #11:33 2Sm 4:3]
34Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,[#11:34 1Sm 13:18]
35Lod, and Ono, in Craftsmen’s Valley.[#11:35 1Ch 8:12; Ac 9:32]
36Some of the Judean divisions of Levites were in Benjamin.