Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Chronicles 9:2 in context
1 Chronicles 9:1–5
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So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
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Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
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In Jerusalem, there lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
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Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
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Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.
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