Ezra 2:70

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Everyone returned to the towns from which their families had come, including the priests, the Levites, the musicians, the temple guards, and the workers.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:10

They went back to Samaria and shouted up to the guards at the gate, “We've just come from the Syrian army camp, and all the soldiers are gone! The tents are empty, and the horses and donkeys are still tied up. We didn't see or hear anybody.”

1 Chronicles 11:2

and we know that you have led our army into battle, even when Saul was still our king. The LORD God has promised that you would rule our country and take care of us like a shepherd.

1 Chronicles 9:2

And the first people to return to their towns included priests, Levites, temple workers, and other Israelites.

Ezra 2:1

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had captured many of the people of Judah and had taken them as prisoners to Babylonia. Now they were on their way back to Jerusalem and to their own towns everywhere in Judah.

Nehemiah 7:73

And so, by the seventh month, priests, Levites, temple guards, musicians, workers, and many of the ordinary people had settled in the towns of Judah.