Nehemiah 11

Nehemiah 11

The Residents of Jerusalem

1Ch 9:1–17

1Now the rulers of the people lived at Jerusalem, so the rest of the people cast lots in order to bring one out of ten to stay in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine remained in other cities.[#Ne 11:18; Isa 48:2]

2The people blessed all the men who volunteered to dwell in Jerusalem.[#Jdg 5:9]

3Now these are the leaders of the provinces who lived in Jerusalem (though in the cities of Judah everyone lived on his own property within their cities): Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.[#Ezr 2:1; #Ezr 2:43]

4Some of the sons of Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem.

20The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the cities of Judah, everyone tending to his own inheritance.

21But the temple servants lived in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were over them.[#Ne 3:26]

22The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mika. Some of the sons of Asaph were the singers attending to the work of the house of God,[#Ne 11:9; #Ne 12:42]

23for the king’s regulation about them made their unity a daily issue.[#Ezr 6:8–9]

24Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was the king’s assistant in all matters concerning the people.[#Ge 38:30; #11:24 Lit. at the king’s hand .]

The Residents Outside Jerusalem

25For the villages located by their fields, some of the people of Judah lived at Kiriath-arba and its villages, others at Dibon and its villages, or at Jekabzeel and its villages,[#Jos 14:15]

26as well as at Jeshua, at Moladah, and at Beth-pelet,

27and at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba and its villages,

28and at Ziklag, at Mekonah and its villages,[#1Sa 27:6]

29and at En-rimmon, at Zorah, at Jarmuth,

30Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, at Lachish and its fields, and at Azekah and its villages. So they lived from Beer-sheba as far as the Valley of Hinnom.[#Jos 10:3; #Jos 15:8]

31Some of the Benjamites settled from Geba onward, at Mikmash, Aija, and Bethel and their villages,

32at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,[#Jos 21:18; #1Sa 21:1]

33Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,[#2Sa 4:3]

34Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,[#1Sa 13:18]

35Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.[#1Ch 8:12]

36From the Levites, some divisions in Judah belonged to Benjamin.

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