Therefore priests, and deacons [or Levites] of the people, and singers, and porters, and Nethinims dwelled in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
And when they had come to the gate of the city, they told to them, and said, We went to the castles [or tents] of Syria, and we found not any man there, but horses and asses tied up, and [the] tents fastened in place.
also yesterday and the third day ago, when Saul reigned yet upon Israel, thou it was that leddest out and leddest in Israel; for the Lord thy God said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince upon it.
And these be the sons of the province, which went up from the captivity, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had translated or brought over into Babylon; and they turned again into Jerusalem and into Judah, each man into his city,
Soothly [the] priests, and deacons [or Levites], and porters, and singers, and the residue people, and Nethinims, and all Israel dwelled in their cities. And when the seventh month was come under Ezra and Nehemiah, soothly the sons of Israel were in their cities.