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1:1	The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in ShushanSusa the palace,
1:2	that Hanani, one of my brethrenbrothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerningabout the Jews thatwho had escaped, thatwho were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
1:3	AndThey they said untoto me, The remnant thatwho are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach:. theThe wall of Jerusalem is also is broken down, and theits gates thereof are burned with fire.
1:4	AndWhen it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certainseveral days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
1:5	and said, I beseechbeg theeyou, O JehovahYahweh, the God of heaven, the great and terribleawesome God, thatwho keepethkeeps covenant and lovingkindnessloving kindness with themthose thatwho love him and keep his commandments:,
1:6	Letlet thineyour ear now be attentive, and thineyour eyes open, that thouyou mayestmay hearkenlisten untoto the prayer of thyyour servant, which I pray before theeyou at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thyyour servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against theeyou. YeaYes, I and my fathers house have sinned:.
1:7	weWe have dealt very corruptly against theeyou, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thouyou commandedstcommanded thyyour servant Moses.
1:8	Remember, I beseechbeg theeyou, the word that thouyou commandedstcommanded thyyour servant Moses, saying, If yeyou trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:;
1:9	but if yeyou return untoto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will I gather them from thencethere, and will bring them untoto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
1:10	Now these are thyyour servants and thyyour people, whom thouyou hasthave redeemed by thyyour great power, and by thyyour strong hand.
1:11	O Lord, I beseechbeg theeyou, let nowyour thine ear be attentive now to the prayer of thyyour servant, and to the prayer of thyyour servants, who delight to fear thyyour name; and please prosper, Iyour pray thee, thy servant this daytoday, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cupbearercup bearer to the king.
2:1	AndIn it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I tookpicked up the wine, and gave it untoto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad before in his presence.
2:2	AndThe the king said untoto me, Why is thyyour countenanceface sad, seeingsince thouyou artare not sick? thisThis is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very soremuch afraid.
2:3	And I said untoto the king, Let the king live forforever! ever:Why whyshouldnt should not my countenanceface be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers sepulchrestombs, liethlies waste, and theits gates thereofhave arebeen consumed with fire?
2:4	Then the king said untoto me, ForWhat whatis dostyour thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
2:5	And I said untoto the king, If it pleasepleases the king, and if thyyour servant havehas found favor in thyyour sight, I ask that thouyou wouldestwould send me untoto Judah, untoto the city of my fathers sepulchrestombs, that I may build it.
2:6	AndThe the king said untoto me the queen was also sitting by him, ForHow how long shallwill thyyour journey be? andWhen whenwill wiltyou thou return? So it pleased the king to send me;, and I set him a time for him.
2:7	Moreover I said untoto the king, If it pleasepleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through tilluntil I come untoto Judah;
2:8	and a letter untoto Asaph the keeper of the kings forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castlecitadel whichby appertaineth to the housetemple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shallwill enter intooccupy. AndThe the king granted memy requests, accordingbecause toof the good hand of my God uponon me.
2:9	Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the kings letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen with me.
2:10	AndWhen when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, forbecause thata thereman washad come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
2:12	And I arose in the night, I and somea few men with me;. neitherI tolddidnt Itell anyanyone man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem;. neitherThere waswasnt there any beastanimal with me, saveexcept the beastanimal that I rode uponon.
2:13	And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackals well, andthen to the dung gate,; and viewedI inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and theits gates thereof were consumed with fire.
2:14	Then I went on to the fountainspring gate and to the kings pool:, but there was no place for the beastanimal that was under me to pass.
2:15	Then I went I up in the night by the brook, and viewedinspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
2:16	AndThe the rulers knewdidnt notknow whitherwhere I went, or what I did;. neitherI had Inot as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest thatwho did the work.
2:17	Then I said Ito unto them, YeYou see the evilbad casesituation that we are in, how Jerusalem liethlies waste, and theits gates thereof are burned with fire:. comeCome, andlets let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we wont be no more a reproachdisgraced.
2:18	And I told them ofabout the hand of my God which was good uponon me, asand also ofabout the kings words that he had spoken untoto me. AndThey they said, LetLets us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
2:19	But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughedridiculed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that yeyou doare doing? willWill yeyou rebel against the king?
2:20	Then I answered I them, and said untoto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us;. thereforeTherefore we, his servants, will arise and build:; but yeyou have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
3:1	Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethrenbrothers the priests, and they buildedbuilt the sheep gate;. theyThey sanctified it, and set up theits doors. ofThey sanctified it; even untoto the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, untoto the tower of Hananel.
3:2	AndNext nextto unto him builded the men of Jericho built. AndNext next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri built.
3:3	AndThe thesons fishof gateHassenaah didbuilt the sonsfish ofgate. HassenaahThey build; they laid theits beams thereof, and set up theits doors thereof, theits bolts thereof, and theits bars thereof.
3:4	AndNext nextto unto them, repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. AndNext nextto unto them, repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. AndNext nextto unto them, repaired Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.
3:5	AndNext nextto unto them, the Tekoites repairedmade repairs; but their nobles didnt put not their necks to the Lords work of their Lord.
3:6	And the old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; theyrepaired the old gate. They laid theits beams thereof, and set up theits doors thereof, andits the bolts thereof, and theits bars thereof.
3:7	AndNext nextto unto them, repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, thatrepaired appertained to the throneresidence of the governor beyond the River.
3:8	Next untoto him, repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. AndNext nextto unto him, repaired Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even untoto the broadwide wall.
3:9	AndNext nextto unto them, repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.
3:10	AndNext nextto unto them, repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, overmade againstrepairs across from his house. AndNext nextto unto him, repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.
3:11	Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of PahathPahathmoab moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
3:12	AndNext nextto unto him, repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters made repairs.
3:13	The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; theyrepaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up theits doors thereof, theits bolts thereof, and theits bars thereof, and aone thousand cubits of the wall untoto the dung gate.
3:14	And the dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth haccherem;Haccherem, herepaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up theits doors thereof, theits bolts thereof, and theits bars thereof.
3:15	And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of Col hozehColhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah;, herepaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up theits doors thereof, theits bolts thereof, and theits bars; thereof, and he repaired the wall of the pool of Shelah by the kings garden, even untoto the stairs that go down from theDavids city of David.
3:16	After him, repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth zurZur, untomade repairs to the place overopposite against the sepulchrestombs of David, and untoto the pool that was made, and untoto the house of the mighty men.
3:17	After him, repaired the Levites, —Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next untoto him, repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
3:18	After him, repaired their brethrenbrothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.
3:19	AndNext next to him, repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, overacross againstfrom the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.
3:20	After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall untoto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
3:21	After him, repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
3:22	AndAfter after him, repaired the priests, the men of the Plainsurrounding area made repairs.
3:23	After them, repaired Benjamin and Hasshub overmade againstrepairs across from their house. After them, repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.
3:24	After him, repaired Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah untoto the turning of the wall, and untoto the corner.
3:25	Palal the son of Uzai repairedmade overrepairs againstopposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that standethstands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh repairedmade repairs.
3:26	Now the Nethinimtemple dweltservants lived in Ophel, untoto the place overopposite against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that standethstands out.
3:27	After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, overopposite against the great tower that standethstands out, and untoto the wall of Ophel.
3:28	Above the horse gate, repaired the priests made repairs, everyeveryone oneacross overfrom against his own house.
3:29	After them, repaired Zadok the son of Immer overmade againstrepairs across from his own house. AndAfter after him, repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate, made repairs.
3:30	After him, repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah overmade againstrepairs across from his chamberroom.
3:31	After him, repaired Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths untoto the house of the Nethinimtemple servants, and of the merchants, overmade againstrepairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
3:32	AndBetween between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
4:1	But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wrothangry, and tookwas greatvery indignationindignant, and mocked the Jews.
4:2	AndHe hespoke spake before his brethrenbrothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? willWill they fortify themselves? willWill they sacrifice? willWill they makefinish an end in a day? willWill they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeingsince they are burned?
4:3	Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, EvenWhat that which they are building, if a fox goclimbed up it, he shallwould break down their stone wall.
4:4	Hear, O our God;, for we are despised:. andTurn turn back their reproach uponon their own head,. andGive give them up for a spoilplunder in a land of captivity;.
4:5	andDont cover not their iniquity,. andDont let not their sin be blotted out from before theeyou; for they have provokedinsulted thee to anger before the builders.
4:6	So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together untoto half theits height, thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
4:7	But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stoppedfilled, then they were very wrothangry;
4:8	and they conspired all ofconspired them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion thereinamong us.
4:9	But we made our prayer untoto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
4:10	And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed,fading and there is much rubbish;rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.
4:11	AndOur our adversaries said, They shallwill not know, neitheror see, tilluntil we come intoin theamong midst of them, and slaykill them, and cause the work to cease.
4:12	AndWhen it came to pass that, when the Jews thatwho dweltlived by them came, they said untoto us ten times from all places, YeWherever mustyou returnturn, untothey will attack us.
4:13	Therefore I set Iguards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places,. I set there the people afterby theirfamily familiesgroups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
4:14	And I looked, and rose up, and said untoto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, BeDont notbe ye afraid of them:! rememberRemember the Lord, who is great and terribleawesome, and fight for your brethrenbrothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
4:15	AndWhen it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known untoto us, and God had brought their counsel to noughtnothing, that we returned all of us returned to the wall, everyeveryone oneto unto his work.
4:16	AndFrom it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wroughtdid in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
4:17	TheyThose thatwho buildedbuilt the wall, and theythose thatwho barebore burdens ladedloaded themselves; everyeveryone one with one of his hands wroughtdid in the work, and with the other held his weapon;.
4:18	andAmong the builders, everyeveryone onewore had his sword girdedat by his side, and so buildedbuilt. AndHe hewho that sounded the trumpet was by me.
4:19	And I said untoto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and largewidely spread out, and we are separated uponon the wall, one far from one another:.
4:20	inWherever whatyou place soever ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resortrally yethere thitherto unto us;. ourOur God will fight for us.
4:21	So we wroughtdid in the work:. andHalf half of themthe people held the spears from the rising of the morning tilluntil the stars appeared.
4:22	Likewise at the same time I said Ito unto the people, Let everyeveryone one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.
4:23	So neither I, nor my brethrenbrothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard thatwho followed me, nonetook of us put off our clothes,. everyEveryone onetook went with his weapon to the water.
5:1	Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethrenbrothers the Jews.
5:2	For there were thatsome who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many:. letLet us get grain, that we may eat and live.
5:3	SomeThere were also theresome werewho that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses:. letLet us get grain, because of the dearthfamine.
5:4	There were also thatsome who said, We have borrowed money for the kings tribute uponusing our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
5:5	Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethrenbrothers, our children as their children:. andBehold, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters arehave been brought into bondage. already:It neither is italso not in our power to help it;, forbecause other men have our fields and our vineyards.
5:6	And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
5:7	Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said untoto them, YeYou exact usury, everyeveryone one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
5:8	And I said untoto them, We, after our ability, have redeemed our brethrenbrothers the Jews, that were sold untoto the nations; and would yeyou even sell your brethrenbrothers, and should they be sold untoto us? Then they held they their peace, and found nevernot a word to say.
5:9	Also I said, The thing that yeyou do is not good:. oughtShouldnt yeyou not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
5:10	And I likewise, my brethrenbrothers and my servants, do lend them money and grain. IPlease pray you, let us leavestop off this usury.
5:11	Restore,Please Irestore pray you, to them, even this daytoday, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyardsolive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that yeyou exactare ofcharging them.
5:12	Then they said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them;. soWe will wedo doso, even as thouyou sayestsay. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
5:13	Also I shook out my lap, and said, So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performethdoesnt notperform this promise; even thusmay he be he shaken out, and emptied like this. AndAll all the assembly said, Amen, and praised JehovahYahweh. AndThe the people did according to this promise.
5:14	Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even untoto the twothirty andsecond thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethrenbrothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
5:15	But the former governors thatwho were before me were chargeablesupported untoby the people, and took of them bread and wine from them, besidesplus forty shekels of silver; yeayes, even their servants bareruled rule over the people:, but soI diddidnt notdo Iso, because of the fear of God.
5:16	YeaYes, I also I continued in the work of this wall,. neitherWe boughtdidnt webuy any land:. andAll all my servants were gathered thitherthere untoto the work.
5:17	Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, aone hundred and fifty men, besidesin addition to those thatwho came untoto us from among the nations that were roundaround about us.
5:18	Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep;. alsoAlso fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine:. yetYet for all this, I demandeddidnt notdemand the breadgovernors of the governorpay, because the bondage was heavy uponon this people.
5:19	Remember unto me, O my God, for all the good, all that I have done for this people.
6:1	Now it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat, and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and untoto the rest of our enemies, that I had buildedbuilt the wall, and that there was no breach left thereinin it though even untoto that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,
6:2	that Sanballat and Geshem sent untoto me, saying, Come,! letLets us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thoughtintended to doharm me mischief.
6:3	And I sent messengers untoto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannotcant come down:. whyWhy should the work cease, whilstwhile I leave it, and come down to you?
6:4	AndThey they sent untoto me four times afterlike this sort; and I answered them after the same mannerway.
6:5	Then Sanballat sent Sanballat his servant untoto me inthe likesame mannerway the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
6:6	whereinin which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu saithsays it, that thouyou and the Jews thinkintend to rebel;. forBecause whichof causethat, thouyou artare building the wall:. andYou thouwould wouldest be their king, according to these words.
6:7	AndYou thouhave hast also appointed prophets to preachproclaim of theeyou at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah:! andNow nowit shallwill it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and letlets us take counsel together.
6:8	Then I sent untoto him, saying, There are no such things done as thouyou sayestsay, but thouyou feignestimagine them out of thineyour own heart.
6:9	For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shallwill be weakened from the work, that it not be not done. But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.
6:10	And I went untoto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut upin at his home; and he said, Let us meet together in theGods house of God, within the temple, and letlets us shut the doors of the temple:; for they will come to slaykill thee;you. yeaYes, in the night they will they come to slaykill theeyou.
6:11	And I said, Should such a man aslike Ime flee? andWho who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
6:12	And I discerned, and, lobehold, God had not sent him;, but he pronounced this prophecy against me:. and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
6:13	ForHe this cause was he hired, so that I shouldwould be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have mattermaterial for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:14	Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
6:15	So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
6:16	AndWhen it came to pass, when all our enemies heard thereofof it, that all the nations that were aboutaround us fearedwere afraid, and werethey muchlost cast down in their own eyesconfidence; for they perceived that this work was wroughtdone ofby our God.
6:17	Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters untoto Tobiah, and theTobiahs letters of Tobiah came untoto them.
6:18	For there were many in Judah sworn untoto him, because he was the son in law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah toas wife.
6:19	Also they spakespoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
7:1	Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the portersgatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
7:2	that I gaveput my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castlefortress, in charge overof Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
7:3	And I said untoto them, LetDont notlet the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun beis hot; and while they stand on guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar ye them:; and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyeveryone one in his watch, andwith everyeveryone onenear to be over against his house.
7:4	Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not buildedbuilt.
7:5	AndMy my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckonedlisted by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of themthose thatwho came up at the first, and I found this written thereinin it:
7:6	These are the children of the province, thatwho went up out of the captivity of those thatwho had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and thatwho returned untoto Jerusalem and to Judah, everyeveryone oneto unto his city;,
7:7	who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
7:8	The children of Parosh,: two thousand aone hundred and seventy and two.
7:9	The children of Shephatiah,: three hundred seventy and two.
7:10	The children of Arah,: six hundred fifty and two.
7:11	The children of Pahath moabPahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab,: two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
7:12	The children of Elam,: aone thousand two hundred fifty and four.
7:13	The children of Zattu,: eight hundred forty and five.
7:14	The children of Zaccai,: seven hundred and threescoresixty.
7:15	The children of Binnui,: six hundred forty and eight.
7:16	The children of Bebai,: six hundred twenty and eight.
7:17	The children of Azgad,: two thousand three hundred twenty and two.
7:18	The children of Adonikam,: six hundred threescoresixty and seven.
7:19	The children of Bigvai,: two thousand threescoresixty and seven.
7:20	The children of Adin,: six hundred fifty and five.
7:21	The children of Ater,: of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
7:22	The children of Hashum,: three hundred twenty and eight.
7:23	The children of Bezai,: three hundred twenty and four.
7:24	The children of Hariph,: aone hundred and twelve.
7:25	The children of Gibeon,: ninety and five.
7:26	The men of BethBethlehem lehem and Netophah,: aone hundred fourscoreeighty and eight.
7:27	The men of Anathoth,: aone hundred twenty and eight.
7:28	The men of Beth azmaveth,Azmaveth: forty and two.
7:29	The men of Kiriath jearimJearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,: seven hundred forty and three.
7:30	The men of Ramah and Geba,: six hundred twenty and one.
7:31	The men of Michmas,: aone hundred and twenty and two.
7:32	The men of BethBethel el and Ai,: aone hundred twenty and three.
7:33	The men of the other Nebo,: fifty and two.
7:34	The children of the other Elam,: aone thousand two hundred fifty and four.
7:35	The children of Harim,: three hundred and twenty.
7:36	The children of Jericho,: three hundred forty and five.
7:37	The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono,: seven hundred twenty and one.
7:38	The children of Senaah,: three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
7:39	The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,: nine hundred seventy and three.
7:40	The children of Immer,: aone thousand fifty and two.
7:41	The children of Pashhur,: aone thousand two hundred forty and seven.
7:42	The children of Harim,: aone thousand and seventeen.
7:43	The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah,: seventy and four.
7:44	The singers: the children of Asaph,: aone hundred forty and eight.
7:45	The portersgatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai,: aone hundred thirty and eight.
7:46	The Nethinimtemple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
7:51	the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.,
7:52	Thethe children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,
7:56	the children of Neziah, and the children of Hatipha.
7:59	the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth hazzebaimHazzebaim, and the children of Amon.
7:60	All the Nethinim,temple servants and the children of Solomons servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
7:61	AndThese these were theythose thatwho went up from Tel melahMelah, Tel harshaHarsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers houses, nor their seedoffspring, whether they were of Israel:
7:62	The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda,: six hundred forty and two.
7:63	AndOf of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
7:64	These soughtsearched for their registergenealogical among those that were reckoned by genealogyrecords, but itcouldnt wasfind notthem. found:Therefore thereforethey were they deemed polluteddisqualified and putremoved from the priesthood.
7:65	AndThe the governor saidtold unto them, thatnot theyto should not eat of the most holy things, tilluntil therea priest stood up ato priestminister with Urim and Thummim.
7:66	The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescoresixty,
7:67	besidesin addition to their menmale servants and their maidfemale servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven:. andThey they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
7:68	Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
7:69	their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their assesdonkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
7:70	AndSome some from among the heads of fathers houseshouseholds gave untoto the work. The governor gave to the treasury aone thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priests garments.
7:71	AndSome some of the heads of fathers houseshouseholds gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred poundsminas of silver.
7:72	AndThat that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, andplus two thousand poundsminas of silver, and threescoresixty and seven priests garments.
7:73	So the priests, and the Levites, and the portersgatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinimtemple servants, and all Israel, dweltlived in their cities. AndWhen when the seventh month washad come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
8:1	AndAll all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broadwide place that was beforein front of the water gate; and they spakespoke untoto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which JehovahYahweh had commanded to Israel.
8:2	And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all thatwho could hear with understanding, uponon the first day of the seventh month.
8:3	AndHe he read thereinfrom it before the broadwide place that was beforein front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those thatwho could understand;. andThe the ears of all the people were attentive untoto the book of the law.
8:4	And Ezra the scribe stood uponon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
8:5	And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people for he was above all the people;, and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
8:6	AndThen Ezra blessed JehovahYahweh, the great God;. andAll all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands:. andThey they bowed their heads, and worshippedworshiped JehovahYahweh with their faces to the ground.
8:7	Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law:; and the people stoodstayed in their place.
8:8	AndThey they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
8:9	And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest theand scribe, and the Levites thatwho taught the people, said untoto all the people, ThisToday day is holy untoto JehovahYahweh your God;. Dont mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
8:10	Then he said untoto them, Go your way,. eatEat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions untoto him for whom nothing is prepared;, for thistoday day is holy untoto our Lord:. neitherDont be ye grieved;, for the joy of JehovahYahweh is your strength.
8:11	So the Levites stilledcalmed all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy;. neitherDont be ye grieved.
8:12	AndAll all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirthcelebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared untoto them.
8:13	AndOn on the second day, were gathered together the heads of fathers houseshouseholds of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, untowere gathered together to Ezra the scribe, even to givestudy attention to the words of the law.
8:14	AndThey they found written in the law, how thatYahweh Jehovah had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
8:15	and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forthout untoto the mountmountain, and fetchget olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make boothstemporary shelters, as it is written.
8:16	So the people went forth,out and brought them, and made themselves boothstemporary shelters, everyeveryone oneon upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of theGods house of God, and in the broadwide place of the water gate, and in the broadwide place of theEphraims gate of Ephraim.
8:17	AndAll all the assembly of themthose thatwho werehad come againback out of the captivity made booths,temporary shelters and dweltlived in the booths:temporary shelters, for since the days of JeshuaJoshua the son of Nun untoto that day had not the children of Israel had not done so. AndThere there was very great gladness.
8:18	Also day by day, from the first day untoto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. AndThey they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according untoto the ordinance.
9:1	Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earthdirt uponon them.
9:2	AndThe theoffspring seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
9:3	AndThey they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of JehovahYahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and anothera fourth part they confessed, and worshippedworshiped JehovahYahweh their God.
9:4	Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice untoto JehovahYahweh their God.
9:5	Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless JehovahYahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting;! andBlessed blessed be thyyour glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.!
9:6	ThouYou artare JehovahYahweh, even thouyou alone;. thouYou hasthave made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their hostarmy, the earth and all things that are thereonon it, the seas and all that is in them, and thouyou preservestpreserve them all;. andThe thearmy host of heaven worshippethworships theeyou.
9:7	ThouYou artare JehovahYahweh, the God, who didstchose choose Abram, andbrought broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, andgave gavest him the name of Abraham,
9:8	andfound foundest his heart faithful before theeyou, and madestmade a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it untoto his seedoffspring, and hasthave performed thyyour words;, for thouyou artare righteous.
9:9	AndYou thousaw sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardestheard their cry by the Red Sea,
9:10	and showedstshowed signs and wonders uponagainst Pharaoh, andagainst on all his servants, and onagainst all the people of his land;, for thouyou knewestknew that they dealt proudly against them, and didstmade geta theename afor nameyourself, as it is this daytoday.
9:11	AndYou thoudivided didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midstmiddle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
9:12	Moreover, in a pillar of cloud thouyou leddestled them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way whereinin which they should go.
9:13	ThouYou camestalso came down alsoon uponMount mount Sinai, and spakestspoke with them from heaven, and gavestgave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
9:14	and madestmade known untoto them thyyour holy sabbathSabbath, and commandedstcommanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses thyyour servant,
9:15	and gavestgave them bread from heaventhe sky for their hunger, and broughtestbrought forth water for them out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commandedstcommanded them that they should go in to possess the land which thouyou hadsthad sworn to give them.
9:16	But they and our fathers dealtbehaved proudly, and hardened their neck, anddidnt hearkenedlisten not to thyyour commandments,
9:17	and refused to obey,. neitherThey werewerent mindful of thyyour wonders that thouyou didstdid among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thouyou artare a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindnessloving kindness, and forsookestdidnt forsake them not.
9:18	YeaYes, when they had made themthemselves a moltenmolded calf, and said, This is thyyour God thatwho brought theeyou up out of Egypt, and had wroughtcommitted greatawful provocations;blasphemies,
9:19	yet thouyou in thyyour manifold mercies forsookestdidnt forsake them not in the wilderness:. theThe pillar of cloud departeddidnt notdepart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way whereinin which they should go.
9:20	ThouYou gavestgave also thyyour good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldestdidnt notwithhold thyyour manna from their mouth, and gavestgave them water for their thirst.
9:21	YeaYes, forty years didstyou thousustained sustain them in the wilderness,. andThey they lacked nothing;. theirTheir clothes waxeddidnt notgrow old, and their feet swelleddidnt notswell.
9:22	Moreover thouyou gavestgave them kingdoms and peoples, which thouyou didstallotted allotaccording afterto their portions:. soSo they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
9:23	TheirYou children also multipliedstmultiplied thoutheir children as the stars of heaventhe sky, and broughtestbrought them into the land concerning which thouyou didstsaid say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
9:24	So the children went in and possessed the land,; and thouyou subduedstsubdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavestgave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they wouldpleased.
9:25	AndThey they took fortified cities, and a fatrich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewndug out, vineyards, andolive oliveyardsgroves, and fruit trees in abundance:. soSo they did eatate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thyyour great goodness.
9:26	Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against theeyou, and cast thyyour law behind their back, andkilled slewyour thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again untoto theeyou, and they wroughtcommitted greatawful provocationsblasphemies.
9:27	Therefore thouyou deliveredstdelivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them:. andIn in the time of their trouble, when they cried untoto theeyou, thouyou heardestheard from heaven; and according to thyyour manifold mercies thouyou gavestgave them saviourssaviors who saved them out of the handhands of their adversaries.
9:28	But after they had rest, they did evil again before theeyou; therefore leftestyou thouleft them in the handhands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them:; yet when they returned, and cried untoto theeyou, thouyou heardestheard from heaven; and many times didstyou thoudelivered deliver them according to thyyour mercies,
9:29	and testifiedsttestified against them, that thouyou mightestmight bring them again untoto thyyour law. Yet they dealtwere proudlyarrogant, and hearkeneddidnt notlisten untoto thyyour commandments, but sinned against thineyour ordinances which if a man dodoes, he shall live in them, andturned withdrewtheir the shoulderbacks, andstiffened hardened their neck, and would not hear.
9:30	Yet many years didstyou thouput bearup with them, and testifiedsttestified against them by thyyour Spirit through thyyour prophets:. yetYet they would they not givelisten. ear:Therefore thereforeyou gavestgave thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
9:31	Nevertheless in thyyour manifold mercies thouyou didstdidnt not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for thouyou artare a gracious and merciful God.
9:32	Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terribleawesome God, who keepestkeeps covenant and lovingkindnessloving kindness, dont let not all the travail seem little before thee,you that hathhas come uponon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thyyour people, since the time of the kings of Assyria untoto this day.
9:33	HowbeitHowever thouyou artare just in all that ishas come uponon us; for thouyou hasthave dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;.
9:34	neitherAlso have our kings, our princes, our priests, norand our fathers, have not kept thyyour law, nor hearkenedlistened untoto thyyour commandments and thyyour testimonies wherewithwith thouwhich didstyou testifytestified against them.
9:35	For they have not served theeyou in their kingdom, and in thyyour great goodness that thouyou gavestgave them, and in the large and fatrich land which thouyou gavestgave before them,. neitherThey turneddidnt theyturn from their wicked works.
9:36	Behold, we are servants this daytoday, and as for the land that thouyou gavestgave untoto our fathers to eat theits fruit thereof and theits good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.
9:37	AndIt ityields yieldeth much increase untoto the kings whom thouyou hasthave set over us because of our sins:. alsoAlso they have power over our bodies, and over our cattlelivestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
9:38	AndYet yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal unto it.
10:1	Now those thatwho sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
10:8	Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah;. theseThese were the priests.
10:9	AndThe the Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
10:10	and their brethrenbrothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
10:13	Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.
10:14	The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath moabPahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
10:26	and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
10:27	Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
10:28	AndThe the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the portersgatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinimtemple servants, and all theythose thatwho had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands untoto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters,—everyone everywho one that had knowledge, and understanding;—
10:29	theyjoined clavewith to their brethrenbrothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in Gods law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of JehovahYahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
10:30	and that we would not give our daughters untoto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
10:31	and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbathSabbath day to sell, that we would not buy offrom them on the sabbathSabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, crops and the exaction of every debt.
10:32	Also we made ordinances for usourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;:
10:33	for the showbreadshow bread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, for the sabbathsSabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
10:34	And we cast lotsWe, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn uponon theYahweh altarour ofGods Jehovah our Godaltar, as it is written in the law;
10:35	and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all mannerkinds of trees, year by year, untoto theYahwehs house of Jehovah;
10:36	also the firstfirstborn born of our sons, and of our cattlelivestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstlingsfirstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, untoto the priests thatwho minister in the house of our God;
10:37	and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heavewave offerings, and the fruit of all mannerkinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, untoto the priests, to the chambersrooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground untoto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all theour citiesfarming of our tillagevillages.
10:38	AndThe the priest, the sondescendent of Aaron, shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes:. andThe the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes untoto the house of our God, to the chambersrooms, into the treasure house.
10:39	For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heavewave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, untoto the chambers,rooms where are the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests thatwho minister, andwith the porters,gatekeepers and the singers:. andWe we will not forsake the house of our God.
11:1	AndThe the princes of the people dweltlived in Jerusalem:. theThe rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
11:2	AndThe the people blessed all the men thatwho willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
11:3	Now these are the chiefs of the province thatwho dweltlived in Jerusalem:; but in the cities of Judah, dwelteveryone everylived one in his possession in their cities, to wit, —Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinimtemple servants, and the children of Solomons servants.
11:4	AndSome in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
11:5	and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col hozehColhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
11:6	All the sons of Perez thatwho dweltlived in Jerusalem were four hundred threescoresixty and eight valiant men.
11:7	AndThese these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.
11:8	AndAfter after him Gabbai, and Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
11:9	And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.
11:11	Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of theGods house of God,
11:12	and their brethrenbrothers thatwho did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty and two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
11:13	and his brethrenbrothers, chiefs of fathers houseshouseholds, two hundred forty and two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
11:14	and their brethrenbrothers, mighty men of valor, aone hundred twenty and eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
11:15	AndOf of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
11:16	and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of theGods house of God;
11:17	and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethrenbrothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
11:18	All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscoreeighty and four.
11:19	Moreover the portersgatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethrenbrothers, thatwho kept watch at the gates, were aone hundred seventy and two.
11:20	AndThe the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyeveryone one in his inheritance.
11:21	But the Nethinimtemple dweltservants lived in Ophel:; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinimtemple servants.
11:22	The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, overresponsible for the businessservice of theGods house of God.
11:24	And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the kings hand in all matters concerning the people.
11:25	AndAs as for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dweltlived in Kiriath arbaArba and theits towns thereof, and in Dibon and theits towns thereof, and in Jekabzeel and theits villages thereof,
11:26	and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth peletPelet,
11:27	and in Hazar shualShual, and in BeerBeersheba sheba and theits towns thereof,
11:28	and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in theits towns thereof,
11:29	and in En rimmonRimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,
11:30	Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and theits fields thereof, and Azekah and theits towns thereof. So they encamped from BeerBeersheba shebato unto the valley of Hinnom.
11:31	The children of Benjamin also dweltlived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at BethBethel el and theits towns thereof,
11:36	AndOf of the Levites, certain coursesdivisions in Judah weresettled joinedin toBenjamins Benjaminterritory.
12:1	Now these are the priests and the Levites thatwho went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
12:6	Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.,
12:7	Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethrenbrothers in the days of Jeshua.
12:8	Moreover the Levites: were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving songs, he and his brethrenbrothers.
12:9	Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brethrenbrothers, were overclose againstto them according to their offices.
12:10	And Jeshua begatbecame the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim begatbecame the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib begatbecame the father of Joiada,
12:11	and Joiada begatbecame the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan begatbecame the father of Jaddua.
12:12	AndIn in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers houseshouseholds: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
12:19	and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
12:22	As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers houseshouseholds; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
12:23	The sons of Levi, heads of fathers houseshouseholds, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
12:24	AndThe the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethrenbrothers overclose againstto them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watchsection next to watchsection.
12:25	Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub, were portersgatekeepers keeping the watch at the storestorehouses houses of the gates.
12:26	These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest theand scribe.
12:27	AndAt at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings,giving thanks and with singing, with cymbals, psalteriesstringed instruments, and with harps.
12:28	AndThe the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain roundaround about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;
12:29	also from Beth gilgal,Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth:, for the singers had buildedbuilt themthemselves villages roundaround about Jerusalem.
12:30	AndThe the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
12:31	Then I brought up the princes of Judah uponup on the wall, and appointed two great companies thatwho gave thanks and went in procession;. whereofOne one went on the right hand uponon the wall toward the dung gate:;
12:32	and after them went Hoshaiah, andwith half of the princes of Judah,
12:34	Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
12:35	and certainsome of the priests sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
12:36	and his brethrenbrothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.
12:37	AndBy by the fountainspring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of theDavids city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above theDavids house of David, even untoto the water gate eastward.
12:38	AndThe the other company of themthose thatwho gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, uponon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even untoto the broadwide wall,
12:39	and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even untoto the sheep gate:; and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
12:40	So stood the two companies of themthose thatwho gave thanks in theGods house of Godstood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
12:42	and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. AndThe the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
12:43	AndThey they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced;, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children also rejoiced:, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afarfar offaway.
12:44	AndOn on that day, men were men appointed over the chambersrooms for the treasures, for the heavewave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites:; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites thatwho waitedserved.
12:45	AndThey theyperformed kept the chargeduty of their God, and the chargeduty of the purification, and so did the singers and the portersgatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
12:46	For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving untoto God.
12:47	AndAll all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the portersgatekeepers, as every day required:; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
13:1	On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audiencehearing of the people; and thereinit was found written, in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God for everforever,
13:2	because they metdidnt notmeet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them:; howbeithowever, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
13:3	AndIt it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude from Israel.
13:4	Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambersrooms of the house of our God, being allied untoto Tobiah,
13:5	had prepared for him a great chamberroom, where aforetimebefore they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the portersgatekeepers; and the heavewave offerings for the priests.
13:6	But in all this, time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the twothirty andsecond thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went untoto the king:; and after certainsome days I asked I leave of the king,
13:7	and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamberroom in the courts of theGods house of God.
13:8	AndIt it grieved me sore:severely. thereforeTherefore I castthrew forth all theTobiahs household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamberroom.
13:9	Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers:rooms. andI thither brought Iinto againthem the vessels of theGods house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
13:10	And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them;, so that the Levites and the singers, thatwho did the work, werehad each fled every one to his field.
13:11	Then I contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is theGods house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
13:12	Then brought all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, and the new wine, and the oil untoto the treasuries.
13:13	And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute untoto their brethrenbrothers.
13:14	Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and dont wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for theits observances thereof.
13:15	In those days saw I insaw Judah some men treading winepresseswine presses on the sabbathSabbath in Judah, and bringing in sheaves, and ladingloading assesdonkeys therewith;with as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all mannerkinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbathSabbath day:; and I testified against them in the day whereinin which they sold victualsfood.
13:16	ThereSome dwelt men of Tyre also thereinlived there, who brought in fish, and all mannerkinds of wares, and sold on the sabbathSabbath untoto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
13:17	Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said untoto them, What evil thing is this that yeyou do, and profane the sabbathSabbath day?
13:18	DidDidnt not your fathers thusdo this, and diddidnt not our God bring all this evil uponon us, and uponon this city? yetYet yeyou bring more wrath uponon Israel by profaning the sabbathSabbath.
13:19	AndIt it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbathSabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened tilluntil after the sabbath:Sabbath. andI set some of my servants set I over the gates, so that there should no burden should be brought in on the sabbathSabbath day.
13:20	So the merchants and sellers of all kindkinds of wares lodgedcamped withoutoutside of Jerusalem once or twice.
13:21	Then I testified against them, and said untoto them, Why lodgedo yeyou aboutstay around the wall? ifIf yeyou do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forthon, came they nodidnt morecome on the sabbathSabbath.
13:22	And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbathSabbath day. Remember unto me, Ofor mythis Godalso, thismy alsoGod, and spare me according to the greatness of thyyour lovingkindnessloving kindness.
13:23	In those days I also saw I the Jews thatwho had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:;
13:24	and their children spakespoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people.
13:25	And I contended with them, and cursed them, andstruck smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying,You Ye shall not give your daughters untoto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
13:26	DidDidnt not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yetYet among many nations there was there no king like him, and he was belovedloved ofby his God, and God made him king over all Israel:. neverthelessNevertheless evenforeign himwomen didcaused foreigneven womenhim cause to sin.
13:27	Shall we then hearkenlisten untoto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
13:28	AndOne one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite:; therefore I chased him from me.
13:29	Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
13:30	Thus I cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed chargesduties for the priests and for the Levites, everyeveryone one in his work;
13:31	and for the wood offering, at appointed times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.