8 Bible Verses about Those who returned from exile

He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that Yahweh is God.

The gold and silver articles totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought all of them when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land in order to worship Yahweh, the God of Israel.

After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra—

Seraiah’s son, Azariah’s son,
Hilkiah’s son, Shallum’s son,
Zadok’s son, Ahitub’s son,
Amariah’s son, Azariah’s son,
Meraioth’s son, read more.
Zerahiah’s son,
Uzzi’s son, Bukki’s son,
Abishua’s son, Phinehas’s son,
Eleazar’s son, Aaron the chief priest’s son —came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him. Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king. He began the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month since the gracious hand of his God was on him.

Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it: These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included: read more.
Parosh’s descendants2,172 Shephatiah’s descendants372 Arah’s descendants652 Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,818 Elam’s descendants1,254 Zattu’s descendants845 Zaccai’s descendants760 Binnui’s descendants648 Bebai’s descendants628 Azgad’s descendants2,322 Adonikam’s descendants667 Bigvai’s descendants2,067 Adin’s descendants655 Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah98 Hashum’s descendants328 Bezai’s descendants324 Hariph’s descendants112 Gibeon’s descendants95 Bethlehem’s and Netophah’s men188 Anathoth’s men128 Beth-azmaveth’s men42 Kiriath-jearim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s men743 Ramah’s and Geba’s men621 Michmas’s men122 Bethel’s and Ai’s men123 the other Nebo’s men52 the other Elam’s people1,254 Harim’s people320 Jericho’s people345 Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people721 Senaah’s people3,930. The priests included:

Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973 Immer’s descendants1,052 Pashhur’s descendants1,247 Harim’s descendants1,017. The Levites included:

Jeshua’s descendants: of Kadmiel Hodevah’s descendants 74. The singers included:

Asaph’s descendants 148. The gatekeepers included:

Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants 138. The temple servants included:

Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,
Tabbaoth’s descendants, Keros’s descendants,
Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,
Shalmai’s descendants, Hanan’s descendants,
Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,
Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants,
Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,
Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,
Besai’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants,
Nephishesim’s descendants, Bakbuk’s descendants,
Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,
Bazlith’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants,
Harsha’s descendants, Barkos’s descendants,
Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,
Neziah’s descendants, Hatipha’s descendants. The descendants of Solomon’s servants included:

Sotai’s descendants, Sophereth’s descendants,
Perida’s descendants, Jaala’s descendants,
Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants,
Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants. All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392.

Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned from all the nations where they had been banished to live in the land of Judah for a while—

“Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go that same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.