Principle: We all have a role in serving our community
Application: Where is my assignment and how do I want to be remembered?
11:1-2) Leaders settle Jerusalem, w/ 1/10 cast lots (voluntold) to move to Jerusalem, commended
3-4a) provincial leaders (Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants descendants of Solomon's servants various towns, Judah, Benjamin)
4b-6) Descendants of Judah, 5 generations from Perez and 6 generations from Shelah, 468 Perez.
- Genesis 38 Perez was born to Judah and Tamar, Boaz (Ruth 4:18–22), Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33)
7-9) Descendants of Benjamin, 7 generations of Jeshaiah and his followers Gabbai and Sallai, 928, included Joel Zikri chief officer + son Hassenuah over New Quarter of city.
10-14) Priests, 5 generations, official charge of house of God, work for temple 822, 6 generations 242, 4 generations 128
- son of Zadok: Ezekiel 40:46,44:15
15-18) Levites, outside work house of God, 284
19-21) gatekeepers, Israelites, priests, Levites in towns on ancestral property, temple servants on hill of Ophel
- Opel means "swelling" or "mound" is a prominent ridge located in Jerusalem, situated between the City of David to the south and the Temple Mount to the north.
22–24) Levitical musicians served under royal decree; Pethahiah handled civic affairs.
25–30) Judah's people resettled villages from Beersheba to Hinnom Valley.
31–36) Benjamites repopulated northern towns; some Levites settled among them.
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