Charles Ellicott Commentary Nehemiah 13:10

"And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field." — Nehemiah 13:10 (ASV)

Fled every one to his field. —They who performed the work of the Temple were obliged to seek their sustenance by cultivating the fields apportioned to them in the Levitical cities (Numbers 35:2).