KJV King James Version
Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
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1 Chronicles 9:2
Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
WEB World English Bible
Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
ASV American Standard Version
Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the first inhabitants, who are in their possession, in their cities, of Israel, are the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 9
1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they [were] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, [who] were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
2 Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
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וְהַיּוֹשְׁבִים֙H3427 · ya.shavto dwellהָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔יםH7223 · ri.shonfirstאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichבַּאֲחֻזָּתָ֖םH272 · a.chuz.zahpossessionבְּעָרֵיהֶ֑םH5892 · irexcitementיִשְׂרָאֵל֙H3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםH3548 · ko.henpriestהַלְוִיִּ֖םH3881 · le.viy.yiLeviוְהַנְּתִינִֽים׃H5411 · na.tintemple servant
Cross-references
Nehemiah 7:73So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities.Ezra 2:70So the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.Ezra 8:20Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.Ezra 2:58All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.Ezra 2:43The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,Nehemiah 7:60All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.Joshua 9:21-27And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.Nehemiah 11:3-22Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
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