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Ezra 2:58

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All those devoted to the temple as servants, and the sons of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.

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All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites,

the descendants of those who were left in the land and whom the people of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, were conscripted by Solomon for slave labor to this day.

Now the first ones to dwell in their possessions in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pokereth-Hazzebaim, the sons of Ami.

These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their father’s house or their descent, whether they were of Israel:

Some of the Israelites, along with some of the priests, and the Levites, the singers, the porters, and the temple servants, went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

The temple servants living in Ophel made repairs from opposite the Water Gate eastward to the protruding tower.

All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

I even bought male and female slaves, and some were born in my house. I also had a great number of livestock, cattle, and sheep, more than there had been before in Jerusalem.

The leaders of the congregation also said to them, “Let them live!” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation, as the leaders told them.

Therefore now you are cursed, and you will always be slaves, cutting wood and carrying water for the house of my God.”

That day he made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and the altar of the Lord, even to this day, at the place He would choose.




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