All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.
Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.
But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place that he should choose.
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.
All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.
and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.
And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
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