1 Chronicles 9:2
Good News Translation
The first to return to their property in the cities included Israelite citizens, priests, Levites, and Temple workers.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the first to live again in their possessions in their towns were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

Contemporary English Version
And the first people to return to their towns included priests, Levites, temple workers, and other Israelites.

New American Bible
The first to settle again in their cities and dwell there were certain Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their cities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathineans.

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Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their cities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathineans.

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Ezra 2:70 So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singing men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Nehemiah 7:73 And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singing men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and all Israel dwelt in their cities.

Nehemiah 11:3 These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his possession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.

the Nethinims

Joshua 9:21-27 But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things, . . .

Ezra 2:43,58 The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, . . .

Ezra 8:20 And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the service of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these were called by their names.

Nehemiah 7:60,73 All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two. . . .

Nehemiah 11:3,21 These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his possession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon. . . .

Context
The People of Jerusalem
1And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to Babylon for their transgression. 2Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their cities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathineans.3And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Juda, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and of Manasses.…
Cross References
Ezra 2:43
The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Ezra 2:58
All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

Ezra 2:70
So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singing men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Ezra 8:20
And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the service of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these were called by their names.

Nehemiah 7:73
And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singing men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and all Israel dwelt in their cities.

Nehemiah 11:3
These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his possession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.

1 Chronicles 9:1
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