1 Chronicles 9:1-3

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9 The family tree of every person in Israel was carefully recorded in The Annals of the Kings of Israel.

Judah was exiled to Babylon because the people worshiped idols.

² The first to return and live again in their former cities were families from the tribes of Israel and also the priests, the Levites, and the Temple assistants.

³ Then some families from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh arrived in Jerusalem: