Generations of Returned Exiles
So all Israel was recorded by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And aJudah was taken away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.
2 aNow the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and bthe 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 aJerusalem:
4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the ason of Judah.
5 From the Shilonites were Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.
6 From the sons of Zerah were Jeuel and their relatives, 690 of them.
7 From the sons of Benjamin were Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
9 and their relatives according to their generations, a956.
All these were heads of fathers’ households according to their fathers’ houses.