v. 36. The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, the latter being the first high priest of the new community, a grandson of Seraiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar had put to death at Riblah, 2Ki_25:18-19, nine hundred seventy and three.
v. 37. The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
v. 38. The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
v. 39. The children of Rarim, a thousand and seventeen. This list shows only four courses of priests, but these four were afterwards again increased to twenty-four, according to the division of David and with the names they originally bore, for we find a course of Abia mentioned in the New Testament, 1Ch_24:10; Luk_1:5.
v. 40. The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah (or Hodevah, or Judah), seventy and four.
v. 41. The singers: the children of Asaph, the only company that accompanied the first company of returning exiles, an hundred twenty and eight.
v. 42. The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
v. 43. The Nethinim, the descendants of foreign nations, who performed the meaner tasks about the Temple, 1Ch_9:2 : the children of Ziha, the children of Hazupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
v. 44. the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
v. 45. the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
v. 46. the children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,
v. 47. the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
v. 48. the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
v. 49. the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
v. 50. the children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
v. 51. the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
v. 52. the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
v. 53. the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
v. 54. the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
v. 55. The children of Solomon's servants, usually connected with the Nethinim, apparently descendants of prisoners of war that were not Canaanites: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
v. 56. the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
v. 57. the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami (or Ainon).
v. 58. All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred ninety and two. All these people, whose fathers had not originally been members of Israel, now clung to the true God with faithful loyalty. It is not the derivation, the human descent and family, that counts with the Lord, but the faith of the heart and true loyalty in one's entire life.