“The residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 11 contains 36 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.