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1 Chronicles 9:2 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 9 · verse 2
Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.1 Chronicles 9:2 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 9:2 in context
1So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
2Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
3And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
4Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- inhabitantsyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- possessionsʼăchuzzâhsomething seizedH272 →
- IsraelitesYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- NethinimsNâthîynthe Nethinim, or Temple-servantsH5411 →
- priestskôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- LevitesLêvîyîya Levite or descendant of LeviH3881 →
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The first verse looks back upon the foregoing genealogies, and tells us they were gathered out of the books of the kings of Israel and Judah, not that which we have in the canon of scripture, but another civil record, which was authentic, as the king's books with us.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13