Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
Holman Bible
The first
International Standard Version
The first to settle on their own property in their own towns of Israel were priests, descendants of Levi, and the Temple Servants.
A Conservative Version
Now the first inhabitants who dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
American Standard Version
Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Amplified
Now the first [of the returned exiles] who lived [again] in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim (temple servants).
Darby Translation
And the inhabitants that were first in their possessions in their cities were the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Julia Smith Translation
And the first inhabitants which were in their possession in their cities, Israel the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinims.
King James 2000
Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinim.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now the first inhabitants who [were settled] on their property in their cities [in] Israel [were] the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
Modern King James verseion
And the first people in their possessions in their cities were the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the temple slaves.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the old inhabiters that dwelt in their own possessions and cities were Israel, the priests, Levites and Nethinims.
NET Bible
The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
New Heart English Bible
Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
The Emphasized Bible
Now, the first inhabitants, who were in their possessions, in their cities, were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Webster
Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
World English Bible
Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the first inhabitants, who are in their possession, in their cities, of Israel, are the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Themes
Gibeonites » The office of the nethinim probably originated in
Nethinim » With the priests and levites » Had cities to reside in
Interlinear
Ri'shown
References
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 9:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exiles Who Resettled In Jerusalem
1 So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin. 2 Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. 3 And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;
Cross References
Nehemiah 7:73
So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.
Ezra 2:43
The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Ezra 2:58
All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.
Ezra 2:70
So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even all Israel in their towns.
Ezra 8:20
And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.
Nehemiah 7:60
All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
Joshua 9:21-27
Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.
Nehemiah 11:3-22
Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.