Notice the following: to his own city. These people were born and raised in Babylon for the most part, and yet their identity was not Babylon. Their identity was not the land of their captivity. Their identity was the city where their forefathers and their inheritance was: in the land. That was their identity.1
Michael Voytek
1 Voici ceux de la province qui revinrent de l'exil, ceux que Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, avait emmenés captifs à Babylone, et qui retournèrent à Jérusalem et en Juda, chacun dans sa ville.