Generations of Returned Exiles

9 So all Israel was recorded by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And ^(A)Judah was taken away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.

^2 (B)Now the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and ^(C)the ^[a]temple servants. ³ And some of the sons of Judah, of the sons of Benjamin and of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh lived in ^(D)Jerusalem:

¹⁹ Shallum the son of Kore, the son of ^[h]Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entrance. ^20 (K)And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them previously, and Yahweh was with him. ^21 (L)Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the entrance of the tent of meeting. ²² All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212. These were recorded by genealogy in their villages, ^(M)whom David and Samuel the seer established ^(N)in their office of trust. ²³ So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, as those who kept watch. ²⁴ The gatekeepers were ^[i]on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south. ²⁵ And their relatives in their villages ^(O)were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with ^[j]them; ²⁶ for the four chief gatekeepers who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God. ²⁷ And they spent the night all around the house of God, ^(P)because the watch was ^[k]committed to them; and they were over opening it morning by morning.

²⁸ Now some of them were over the utensils of service, for ^[l]they counted them when they brought them in and when they took them out. ²⁹ Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and ^(Q)over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices. ³⁰ Some of ^(R)the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices. ³¹ And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had ^(S)the office of trust over the things which were baked in pans. ³² Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites ^(T)were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath.

³³ Now these are ^(U)the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were over them ^(V)in their work day and night. ³⁴ These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites according to their generations, the heads ^[m]who lived in Jerusalem.