¹All Israel was listed in the genealogies recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. They were taken captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

The People in Jerusalem

²Now the first to resettle on their own property in their own towns were some Israelites, priests, Levites and temple servants.

³Those from Judah, from Benjamin, and from Ephraim and Manasseh who lived in Jerusalem were:

⁴Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.

⁵Of the Shelanites:[#9:5 See Num. 26:20; Hebrew Shilonites.]

⁶Of the Zerahites:

⁷Of the Benjamites:

¹⁰Of the priests:

¹⁴Of the Levites:

¹⁷The gatekeepers:

²²Altogether, those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds numbered 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. The gatekeepers had been assigned to their positions of trust by David and Samuel the seer.

²³They and their descendants were in charge of guarding the gates of the house of the Lord —the house called the tent of meeting.

²⁴The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north and south.

²⁵Their fellow Levites in their villages had to come from time to time and share their duties for seven-day periods.

²⁶But the four principal gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the responsibility for the rooms and treasuries in the house of God.

²⁷They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they had to guard it; and they had charge of the key for opening it each morning.

²⁸Some of them were in charge of the articles used in the temple service; they counted them when they were brought in and when they were taken out.

²⁹Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the special flour and wine, and the olive oil, incense and spices.

³⁰But some of the priests took care of mixing the spices.

³¹A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with the responsibility for baking the offering bread.

³²Some of the Kohathites, their fellow Levites, were in charge of preparing for every Sabbath the bread set out on the table.

³³Those who were musicians, heads of Levite families, stayed in the rooms of the temple and were exempt from other duties because they were responsible for the work day and night.

³⁴All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.

The Genealogy of Saul

³⁵Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon.[#9:35 may mean civic leader or military leader.]

³⁹Ner was the father of Kish, Kish the father of Saul, and Saul the father of Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal.[#9:39 Also known as Ish-Bosheth]

⁴⁰The son of Jonathan:

⁴¹The sons of Micah:

⁴⁴Azel had six sons, and these were their names: