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Chapter 2 catalogues those who returned to Judah and their Leaders. Also listed are the Priests and Temple servants who returned. They totaled almost 50,000 people; each went to their own town according to their parent's place of deportation.
There were 11 Leaders, 2812 descendants of Jeshua and Joab, 36 subclans are listed and the number from each is given, these were descendants of individual families within clans, there being so many clans within each tribe, 4,339 Priests, 341 Levites, 128 Choir members, 139 Gate Keepers, 35 families of Temple Assistants and 11 descendants of Solomon's Officials. Another group of 652 returned from Persian cities that could not prove that they were really Israelites as they had lost their genealogies. Three subclans of Priests returned who also had lost their genealogies. In all, 42,360 people returned to Judah plus 7,337 slaves.
They took with them 736 horses, 245 mules, 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys. Gifts from the Babylonians totaled $300,000 in gold, $170,000 in silver and 100 robes for the Priests. He Priests and Levites settles in and around Jerusalem and the others went to the home of their ancestry.
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