1. SO ALL Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their unfaithfulness to God.
2. Now the first [of the returned exiles] to dwell again in their possessions in the cities of Israel were the priests, Levites, and the Nethinim [the temple servants].
3. In Jerusalem dwelt some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh:
4. Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Pharez son of Judah.
5. Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.
6. Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690.
7. Of the Benjamites: Sallu son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah;
8. Ibneiah son of Jeroham; Elah son of Uzzi, the son of Michri; and Meshullam son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
9. And their kinsmen, according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses.
10. Of the priests: Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jachin;
11. Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief officer of God's house;
12. And Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Massai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
13. And their kinsmen, heads of their fathers' houses, 1,760–very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
14. Of the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;