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Nethinims: Return from the Captivity

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1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
Ezra 2:43, 58, 70 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, / The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all. / So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
Ezra 7:7, 24 So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants. / And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
Ezra 8:17 And I sent them to Iddo, the leader at Casiphia, with a message for him and his kinsmen, the temple servants at Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Nehemiah 3:26, 31 and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out. / Next to him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room above the corner.
Nehemiah 7:46, 60, 73 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, / The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all. / So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
Nehemiah 10:28 “The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,
Nehemiah 11:3, 21 These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants— / The temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, with Ziha and Gishpa over them.