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All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they + of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem. +002:001 Now these are the children of the province, who went up + out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, + whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away + to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, + everyone to his city; +002:002 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, + Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. + The number of the men of the people of Israel: +002:003 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. +002:004 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. +002:005 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five. +002:006 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, + two thousand eight hundred twelve. +002:007 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +002:008 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. +002:009 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. +002:010 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two. +002:011 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. +002:012 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two. +002:013 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six. +002:014 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six. +002:015 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four. +002:016 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. +002:017 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three. +002:018 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve. +002:019 The children of Hashum, two hundred Twenty-three. +002:020 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five. +002:021 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three. +002:022 The men of Netophah, fifty-six. +002:023 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. +002:024 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two. +002:025 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, + seven hundred forty-three. +002:026 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. +002:027 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two. +002:028 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. +002:029 The children of Nebo, fifty-two. +002:030 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six. +002:031 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +002:032 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty. +002:033 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. +002:034 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. +002:035 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty. +002:036 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, + nine hundred seventy-three. +002:037 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. +002:038 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. +002:039 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen. +002:040 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children + of Hodaviah, seventy-four. +002:041 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight. +002:042 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, + the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children + of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, + in all one hundred thirty-nine. +002:043 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, + the children of Tabbaoth, +002:044 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, +002:045 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, + the children of Akkub, +002:046 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan, +002:047 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, +002:048 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, +002:049 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai, +002:050 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, + the children of Nephisim, +002:051 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, + the children of Harhur, +002:052 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, + the children of Harsha, +002:053 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, +002:054 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. +002:055 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, + the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda, +002:056 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, + the children of Giddel, +002:057 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children + of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami. +002:058 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, + were three hundred ninety-two. +002:059 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, + Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their fathers' + houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: +002:060 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children + of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. +002:061 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, + 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. +002:062 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned + by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they + deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. +002:063 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the + most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim + and with Thummim. +002:064 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand + three hundred sixty, +002:065 besides their male servants and their female servants, + of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: + and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. +002:066 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, + two hundred forty-five; +002:067 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, + six thousand seven hundred and twenty. +002:068 Some of the heads of fathers' [houses], when they came to + the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly + for the house of God to set it up in its place: +002:069 they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work + sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas + of silver, and one hundred priests' garments. +002:070 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, + and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, + lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. +003:001 When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel + were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together + as one man to Jerusalem. +003:002 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers + the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, + and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, + to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law + of Moses the man of God. +003:003 They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of + the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings + thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening. +003:004 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and [offered] + the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, + as the duty of every day required; +003:005 and afterward the continual burnt offering, and [the offerings] + of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Yahweh + that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered + a freewill offering to Yahweh. +003:006 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer + burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple + of Yahweh was not yet laid. +003:007 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; + and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them + of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, + according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. +003:008 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God + at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel + the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, + and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, + and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, + and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, + to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh. +003:009 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and + his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight + of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, + with their sons and their brothers the Levites. +003:010 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, + they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, + and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, + after the order of David king of Israel. +003:011 They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, + [saying], For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever + toward Israel. All the people shouted with a great shout, + when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house + of Yahweh was laid. +003:012 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' + [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, + when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, + wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: +003:013 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout + of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; + for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was + heard afar off. +004:001 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that + the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, + the God of Israel; +004:002 then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads + of fathers' [houses], and said to them, Let us build with you; + for we seek your God, as you do; and we sacrifice to him + since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought + us up here. +004:003 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' + [houses] of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do + with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves + together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king + Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us. +004:004 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people + of Judah, and troubled them in building, +004:005 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, + all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign + of Darius king of Persia. +004:006 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, + wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of + Judah and Jerusalem. +004:007 In the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, + and the rest of his companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; + and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian [character], + and set forth in the Syrian [language]. +004:008 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter + against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: +004:009 then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, + and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, + and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, + the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, + the Dehaites, the Elamites, +004:010 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar + brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest + [of the country] beyond the River, and so forth. +004:011 This is the copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king: + Your servants the men beyond the River, and so forth. +004:012 Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up + from you are come to us to Jerusalem; they are building + the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, + and repaired the foundations. +004:013 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, + and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, + and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings. +004:014 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not + appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have + we sent and informed the king; +004:015 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: + so shall you find in the book of the records, and know that this + city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, + and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; + for which cause was this city laid waste. +004:016 We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the + walls finished, by this means you shall have no portion + beyond the River. +004:017 [Then] sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, + and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions + who dwell in Samaria, and in the rest [of the country] beyond + the River: Peace, and so forth. +004:018 The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me. +004:019 I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this + city of old time has made insurrection against kings, + and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. +004:020 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, + who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; + and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them. +004:021 Make you now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this + city not be built, until a decree shall be made by me. +004:022 Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage + grow to the hurt of the kings? +004:023 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read + before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, + they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them + to cease by force and power. +004:024 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; + and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius + king of Persia. +005:001 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son + of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem; + in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they] to them. +005:002 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua + the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God + which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets + of God, helping them. +005:003 At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond + the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said + thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, + and to finish this wall? +005:004 Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men + were who were making this building. +005:005 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they + did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, + and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it. +005:006 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, + and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, + who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king; +005:007 they sent a letter to him, in which was written thus: + To Darius the king, all peace. +005:008 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, + to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, + and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with + diligence and prospers in their hands. +005:009 Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave + you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall? +005:010 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might + write the names of the men who were at the head of them. +005:011 Thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants + of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house + that was built these many years ago, which a great king + of Israel built and finished. +005:012 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, + he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, + the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people + away into Babylon. +005:013 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king + made a decree to build this house of God. +005:014 The gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, + which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was + in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, + those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, + and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, + whom he had made governor; +005:015 and he said to him, Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple + that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built + in its place. +005:016 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations + of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that + time even until now has it been in building, and yet it + is not completed. +005:017 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search + made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, + whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king + to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king + send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. +006:001 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made + in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid + up in Babylon. +006:002 There was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province + of Media, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record: +006:003 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: + Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be built, + the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations + of it be strongly laid; the height of it sixty cubits, + and the breadth of it sixty cubits; +006:004 with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: + and let the expenses be given out of the king's house. +006:005 Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, + which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is + at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought + again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; + and you shall put them in the house of God. +006:006 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, + and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, + be you far from there: +006:007 let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor + of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God + in its place. +006:008 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders + of the Jews for the building of this house of God: + that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, + expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they + be not hindered. +006:009 That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, + and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; + [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word + of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them + day by day without fail; +006:010 that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, + and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. +006:011 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, + let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be + lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made + a dunghill for this: +006:012 and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow + all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter + [the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. + I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence. +006:013 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, + and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, + did accordingly with all diligence. +006:014 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying + of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. + They built and finished it, according to the commandment + of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, + and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. +006:015 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, + which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. +006:016 The children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest + of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this + house of God with joy. +006:017 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one + hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; + and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, + according to the number of the tribes of Israel. +006:018 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in + their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; + as it is written in the book of Moses. +006:019 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth + [day] of the first month. +006:020 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; + all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all + the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, + and for themselves. +006:021 The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, + and all such as had separated themselves to them from + the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, + the God of Israel, ate, +006:022 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: + for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart + of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands + in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. +007:001 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king + of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, + the son of Hilkiah, +007:002 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, +007:003 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, +007:004 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, +007:005 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, + the son of Aaron the chief priest; +007:006 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe + in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; + and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand + of Yahweh his God on him. +007:007 There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, + and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, + to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. +007:008 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh + year of the king. +007:009 For on the first [day] of the first month began he to go up + from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came + he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him. +007:010 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, + and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances. +007:011 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave + to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words + of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel: +007:012 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe + of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth. +007:013 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, + and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded + of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you. +007:014 Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, + to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law + of your God which is in your hand, +007:015 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his + counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, + whose habitation is in Jerusalem, +007:016 and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the + province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, + and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their + God which is in Jerusalem; +007:017 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, + rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, + and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God + which is in Jerusalem. +007:018 Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do + with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do you after + the will of your God. +007:019 The vessels that are given you for the service of the house + of your God, deliver you before the God of Jerusalem. +007:020 Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, + which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of + the king's treasure house. +007:021 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all + the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra + the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, + shall require of you, it be done with all diligence, +007:022 to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures + of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred + baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. +007:023 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done + exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should + there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? +007:024 Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, + the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house + of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, + or toll, on them. +007:025 You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, + appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people + who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; + and teach you him who doesn't know them. +007:026 Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, + let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it + be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, + or to imprisonment. +007:027 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such + a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house + of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem; +007:028 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, + and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. + I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God + on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go + up with me. +008:001 Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this + is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, + in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: +008:002 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. + Of the sons of David, Hattush. +008:003 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; + and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males + one hundred fifty. +008:004 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; + and with him two hundred males. +008:005 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him + three hundred males. +008:006 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with + him fifty males. +008:007 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; + and with him seventy males. +008:008 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; + and with him eighty males. +008:009 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him + two hundred and eighteen males. +008:010 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him + one hundred sixty males. +008:011 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with + him twenty-eight males. +008:012 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him + one hundred ten males. +008:013 Of the sons of Adonikam, [who were] the last; and these are + their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with + them sixty males. +008:014 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males. +008:015 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; + and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, + and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi. +008:016 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, + and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, + and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, + who were teachers. +008:017 I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; + and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [and] his brothers + the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring + to us ministers for the house of our God. +008:018 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us + a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, + the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and + his brothers, eighteen; +008:019 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, + his brothers and their sons, twenty; +008:020 and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for + the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: + all of them were mentioned by name. +008:021 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, + that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek + of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, + and for all our substance. +008:022 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers + and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, + because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our + God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power + and his wrath is against all those who forsake him. +008:023 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was + entreated of us. +008:024 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, + even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, +008:025 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, + even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, + and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel + there present, had offered: +008:026 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, + and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents; +008:027 and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two + vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold. +008:028 I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; + and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, + the God of your fathers. +008:029 Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs + of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' + [houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the + house of Yahweh. +008:030 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver + and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem + to the house of our God. +008:031 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] + of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our + God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy + and the bandit by the way. +008:032 We came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days. +008:033 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels + were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth + the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son + of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, + and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite; +008:034 the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was + written at that time. +008:035 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, + offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls + for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, + and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt + offering to Yahweh. +008:036 They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, + and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered + the people and the house of God. +009:001 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, + saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, + have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, + [doing] according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, + the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, + the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. +009:002 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and + for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves + with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes + and rulers has been chief in this trespass. +009:003 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, + and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, + and sat down confounded. +009:004 Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of + the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; + and I sat confounded until the evening offering. +009:005 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, + even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, + and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God; +009:006 and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face + to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, + and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens. +009:007 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty + to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, + and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings + of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, + and to confusion of face, as it is this day. +009:008 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh + our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us + a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, + and give us a little reviving in our bondage. +009:009 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us + in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us + in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, + to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, + and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. +009:010 Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have + forsaken your commandments, +009:011 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, + The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean + land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, + through their abominations, which have filled it from one end + to another with their filthiness: +009:012 now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, + neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their + peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, + and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance + to your children forever. +009:013 After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our + great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less + than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, +009:014 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity + with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you + be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there + should be no remnant, nor any to escape? +009:015 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left + a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are + before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you + because of this. +010:001 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting + himself down before the house of God, there was gathered + together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men + and women and children; for the people wept very sore. +010:002 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, + answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, + and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: + yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. +010:003 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all + the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel + of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; + and let it be done according to the law. +010:004 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: + be of good courage, and do it. +010:005 Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, + and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. + So they swore. +010:006 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went + into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: + and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; + for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity. +010:007 They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all + the children of the captivity, that they should gather + themselves together to Jerusalem; +010:008 and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to + the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance + should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly + of the captivity. +010:009 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves + together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was + the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: + and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, + trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. +010:010 Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, + and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. +010:011 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples + of the land, and from the foreign women. +010:012 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you + have said concerning us, so must we do. +010:013 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, + and we are not able to stand outside: neither is this + a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed + in this matter. +010:014 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let + all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women + come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, + and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God + be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched. +010:015 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah + stood up against this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai + the Levite helped them. +010:016 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, + [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' + houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; + and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month + to examine the matter. +010:017 They made an end with all the men who had married foreign + women by the first day of the first month. +010:018 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had + married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, + the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, + and Jarib, and Gedaliah. +010:019 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; + and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock + for their guilt. +010:020 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. +010:021 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, + and Jehiel, and Uzziah. +010:022 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, + Jozabad, and Elasah. +010:023 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same + is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. +010:024 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, + and Uri. +010:025 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, + and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. +010:026 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, + and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah. +010:027 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, + and Zabad, and Aziza. +010:028 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai. +010:029 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, + and Sheal, Jeremoth. +010:030 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, + Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. +010:031 [of] the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, + Shimeon, +010:032 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah. +010:033 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, + Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei. +010:034 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel, +010:035 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, +010:036 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, +010:037 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu, +010:038 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, +010:039 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, +010:040 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, +010:041 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, +010:042 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph. +010:043 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, + and Joel, Benaiah. +010:044 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives + by whom they had children. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): EZRA *** + +This file should be named 8242.txt or 8242.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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