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Head of a Temple servant family that returned from exile
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Named in Assyrian royal records as 'Rahianu, king of Damascus,' recording his defeat around 732 BC. The inscriptions were found at Nimrud and are at the British Museum in London.
open_in_newRezin was the head of a family of temple servants, known as the Nethinim, who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile under Zerubbabel. His descendants are listed among those who came back to serve in the restored temple. He appears in the genealogical records of Ezra 2:48 and Nehemiah 7:50.