Now the first inhabitants, etc.] This section (1 Chronicles 9:2) relates to the reoccupation of Jerusalem after the return from the exile, and appears to be a defective duplicate of Nehemiah 11:3 with some variations in the names.

The Israelites] i.e. the lay population as contrasted with the ecclesiastical orders.

Netliinims] These were persons selected from the people, in the ratio of one for every fifty, and given to the Levites as their servants in the times of Moses and David (Numbers 31:47; Ezra 8:20). From the mention of Mehunims among them (Ezra 2:60), who were doubtless descendants of the people of that name who were conquered by Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:7), it has been inferred that they included foreigners who were either prisoners of war, or who surrendered as the Gibeonites did: Joshua 9:27.

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