⁵⁸ All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.

²¹ Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

² Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

²¹ Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.

²³ Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.

²⁷ And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

⁷ And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

²⁶ (Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)

⁶⁰ All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.