New residents in Jerusalem and Judah
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📚And the rulers of the people lived at Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots 📖, to bring one in ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city 📖, and nine were to live in other cities. 2 📚And the people pronounced a blessing on all the men who volunteered to live at Jerusalem. 11:2 The people naturally preferred to stay in their own home towns. But Jerusalem was underpopulated. Hence the arrangement of casting lots. Others volunteered to move to Jerusalem even though the lot had not fallen on them.⚜
3 📚Now the following are the heads of the province who lived in Jerusalem. (But some Israelites, Levites, temple servants, the descendants of Solomon’s servants, lived in their cities, each one on his own property, 4 📚while some of the children of Judah and the children of Benjamin lived at Jerusalem.) Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez, 5 📚and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni. 6 All the sons of Perez who lived at Jerusalem numbered four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
7 📚And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah. 8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, altogether nine hundred and twenty-eight. 9 📚And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer, and Judah the son of Senuah was second in command over the city.
10 📚Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin. 11 📚Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was in charge of the house of God. 12 📚And their brethren who did the work of the house numbered eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah, 13 and his brethren, heads of the fathers’ households, numbered two hundred and forty-two; and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, 14 and their brethren, mighty men of valour, numbered a hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.
15 📚And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni, 16 📚and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the heads of the Levites, supervised the outside work of the house of God. 17 📚And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer; and Bakbukiah, second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. 18 📚All the Levites in the holy city numbered two hundred and eighty-four.
19 📚Moreover, the gatekeepers Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren who guarded the gates, numbered a hundred and seventy-two.
20 📚And the rest of Israel, of the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each one in his inheritance.
21 📚But the temple servants lived in Ophel, and Ziha and Gispa were over the temple servants.
22 📚And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph 📖, the singers were over the work of the house of God. 23 📚For the king’s command concerning them was that a certain portion should be for the singers, day by day.
24 📚And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s 📖 hand in all matters concerning the people.
25 📚And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived at Kirjath-Arba and in its villages, and at Dibon and in its villages, and at Jekabzeel and in its villages, 26 📚and at Jeshua and at Moladah and at Beth-Phelet 27 📚and at Hazarshual and at Beersheba and in its villages, 28 📚and at Ziklag and at Mekonah and in its villages, 29 📚and at Enrimmon and at Zorah and at Jarmuth, 30 📚Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish and its fields, at Azekah and in its villages. And they lived from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.
11:30 Beersheba was in the desert in the southern part of the land. The valley of Hinnom was just outside the walls of Jerusalem on the south and west.⚜
31 📚And the children of Benjamin from Geba lived at Michmash and Aija and Bethel, and in their villages, 32 📚and at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, 33 📚Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, 34 📚Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, 35 📚Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
11:31-35 Places to the north and northwest of Jerusalem.⚜
36 📚And of the Levites some divisions belonging to Judah lived in Benjamin.