The Exiles Who Returned

2 These^(A) now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon^[a] had deported to Babylon.^(B) They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

³ These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem^(A) (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns^(B)—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants^(C)—