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The Exiles Who Returned

These(A) now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon[a] had deported to Babylon.(B) They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

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  1. 2:1 Nebuchadnezzar reigned 605–562 BC

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem(A) (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns(B) – the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants(C) – 

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