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.