1. So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith.
2. Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
3. And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:
4. Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.
5. And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
6. Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690.
7. Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah,
8. Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;
9. and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses.