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So all Israel was enrolled in genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And ^(C1)Judah was taken into exile to Babylon for their infidelity.

^(C1)Now the first inhabitants who lived on their own property in their cities were people of Israel, including the priests, the Levites, and ^(C2)the ^(F1)temple servants.

Some of the sons of Judah, some of the sons of Benjamin, and some of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh lived in ^(C1)Jerusalem:

Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the ^(C1)son of Judah.

From the Shilonites were Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.

From the sons of Zerah were Jeuel and their relatives, 690 of them.

From the sons of Benjamin were Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,

and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

and their relatives according to their generations, ^(C1)956. All these men were heads of fathers' households according to their fathers' houses.

^(C1)From the priests were Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,

and ^(F1)Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, ^(C1)the chief officer of the house of God;

and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;