Neh 11:4

At Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. It is not meant that all the dwellers in Jerusalem were of these two tribes, since among them were certainly Levites (Neh 11:10-19), Ephraimites, and Mansesites (1Ch 1:1-54. s. c.), together with Nethinims (Neh 11:21) who were of no tribe, and probably some representatives of all or most of the other tribes (see the comment on Ezr 2:70). But the present purpose of Nehemiah is to mention especially the Jewish and Benjamite chiefs. Athaiah, or Uthai, as the name is given in 1Ch 9:4. The son of Uzziah. The ancestors assigned to Athaiah here and in 1Ch 9:1-44. are wholly different, with the single exception of Pharez or Perez, the son of Judah. Both lists are of course abbreviations of a far longer one, and it has happened that the two writers have in no ease selected for mention the same name.