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. ² They came with Zerubbabel,^(C) Jeshua,^(D) Nehemiah, Seraiah,^(E) Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included^[b]

⁷ Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants^(A) accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.