And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
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Gill's Exposition
And for the villages, with their fields,.... The cities and villages in the country, an account of the inhabitants of them next follows:
some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in…
Barnes' Notes
The returned community, though consisting mainly of members of the two tribes, represented the entire people of Israel. The ground, however, which they occupied, was not the whole land, but that which…
Having given an account of the principal persons that dwelt in Jerusalem (a larger account of whom he had before, Ch1 9:2, etc.), Nehemiah, in these verses, gives us some account of the other cities,…
Cambridge Bible
This verse is clearly out of place, interrupting the register of -the porters" and -the Nethinim." It would be more appropriate before Neh 11:11.
the residue of Israel Cf. Neh 11:1, -the restof the…