58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.
Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.
Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.
And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.
(Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)
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Commentary on Ezra 2 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 2
That many returned out of Babylon upon Cyrus's proclamation we were told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several families that returned (v. 1).
Ezr 2:1-35
We may observe here,
Ezr 2:36-63
Here is an account,
Ezr 2:64-70
Here is,