All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—
Ezra 2:58 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All the Nethinim [the temple servants] and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392. American Standard Version (1901) All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two. Common English Bible All of the temple servants and the family of Solomon’s servants 392 Catholic Public Domain Version all the temple servants and the sons of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two. |
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—
their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—these Solomon conscripted for slave labor, and so they are to this day.
Now the first to live again in their possessions in their towns were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their families or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:
Some of the people of Israel and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants also went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.
and the temple servants living on Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.
All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.
I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
The leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had decided concerning them.
Now, therefore, you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
But on that day Joshua made them woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place that he should choose.