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1 Chronicles 9:1

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So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.

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Babylon was the Mesopotamian center of Judah’s exile, from which the returned community was restored to Jerusalem, Judah’s covenantal capital and temple city. Gibeon and Netophah were nearby Judean settlements whose inhabitants are included in the postexilic genealogical record that follows.

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1 Chronicles 9:1 mentions Babylon, Gibeon, Jerusalem and Netophah.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Gibeon · Ar2332
Jerusalem · Godot13

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