Nehemiah 11:3 meaning and explanation
These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—
Nehemiah 11:3, Berean Standard Bible
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Nehemiah has just described the lot that brought one in ten to live in Jerusalem, a city still thinly populated after the exile. Verse 3 begins a register of the provincial leaders who settled there, then turns in a parenthesis to the rest of the people, who stayed on their own property in the towns of Judah.
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