So the Kohanim, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the temple servants 1, lived in their cities, and all Yisra'el in their cities.
So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
In times past, even when Sha'ul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Yisra'el: and the LORD your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Yisra'el, and you shall be prince over my people Yisra'el.
Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nevukhadnetzar 1 the king of Bavel had carried away to Bavel, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehudah, everyone to his city;
So the Kohanim, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the temple servants 1, and all Yisra'el, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Yisra'el were in their cities.