2. And the first people to return to their towns included priests, Levites, temple workers, and other Israelites.
3. People from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh settled in Jerusalem.
13. There was a total of 1,760 priests, all of them family leaders in their clan and trained in the work at the temple.
17. Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives were the guards at the temple gates. Shallum was the leader of this clan,
18. and for a long time they had been the guards at the King's Gate on the east side of the city. Before that, their ancestors guarded the entrance to the Levite camp.
19. Shallum son of Kore, as well as the other men in the Korahite clan, guarded the entrance to the temple, just as their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the sacred tent.
20. Phinehas son of Eleazar had supervised their work because the Lord was with him.