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Now it happened + in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in + Shushan the palace, +001:002 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out + of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, + who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. +001:003 They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity + there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: + the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates + of it are burned with fire. +001:004 It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, + and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before + the God of heaven, +001:005 and said, I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great + and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness + with those who love him and keep his commandments: +001:006 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may + listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you + at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your + servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, + which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's + house have sinned: +001:007 we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept + the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, + which you commanded your servant Moses. +001:008 Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your + servant Moses, saying, If you trespass, I will scatter you + abroad among the peoples: +001:009 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, + though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, + yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to + the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there. +001:010 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have + redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand. +001:011 Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer + of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, + who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant + this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. + Now I was cup bearer to the king. +002:001 It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes + the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, + and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [before] sad + in his presence. +002:002 The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you + are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. + Then I was very sore afraid. +002:003 I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should + not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' + tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire? +002:004 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? + So I prayed to the God of heaven. +002:005 I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant + have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, + to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it. +002:006 The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), + For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? + So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. +002:007 Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, + let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, + that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah; +002:008 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, + that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates + of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall + of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. + The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me. +002:009 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them + the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains + of the army and horsemen. +002:010 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, + heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had + come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. +002:011 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. +002:012 I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told + I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; + neither was there any animal with me, except the animal + that I rode on. +002:013 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward + the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls + of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it + were consumed with fire. +002:014 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: + but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass. +002:015 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; + and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, + and so returned. +002:016 The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; + neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, + nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who + did the work. +002:017 Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, + how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned + with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, + that we be no more a reproach. +002:018 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, + as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. + They said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened + their hands for the good [work]. +002:019 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, + the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, + and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? + will you rebel against the king? +002:020 Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, + he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: + but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. +003:001 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers + the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, + and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Hammeah they + sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel. +003:002 Next to him built the men of Jericho. Next to them built + Zaccur the son of Imri. +003:003 The fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid + the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, + and the bars of it. +003:004 Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. + Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son + of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. +003:005 Next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles didn't + put their necks to the work of their lord. +003:006 The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam + the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams of it, and set up + the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it. +003:007 Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon + the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, + [that appertained] to the throne of the governor beyond the River. +003:008 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. + Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they + fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall. +003:009 Next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler + of half the district of Jerusalem. +003:010 Next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against + his house. Next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah. +003:011 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, + repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces. +003:012 Next to him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler + of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. +003:013 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; + they built it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, + and the bars of it, and one thousand cubits of the wall + to the dung gate. +003:014 The dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler + of the district of Beth Haccherem; he built it, and set up + the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it. +003:015 The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler + of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, + and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, + and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, + even to the stairs that go down from the city of David. +003:016 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half + the district of Beth Zur, to the place over against the tombs + of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house + of the mighty men. +003:017 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. + Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district + of Keilah, for his district. +003:018 After him repaired their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, + the ruler of half the district of Keilah. +003:019 Next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, + another portion, over against the ascent to the armory at + the turning [of the wall]. +003:020 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired + another portion, from the turning [of the wall] to the door + of the house of Eliashib the high priest. +003:021 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz + another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib + even to the end of the house of Eliashib. +003:022 After him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain. +003:023 After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their house. + After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son + of Ananiah beside his own house. +003:024 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, + from the house of Azariah to the turning [of the wall], + and to the corner. +003:025 Palal the son of Uzai [repaired] over against the turning + [of the wall], and the tower that stands out from the upper + house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. + After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh [repaired]. +003:026 (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against + the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.) +003:027 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against + the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel. +003:028 Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over + against his own house. +003:029 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his + own house. After him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, + the keeper of the east gate. +003:030 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun + the sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired + Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber. +003:031 After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house + of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate + of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner. +003:032 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired + the goldsmiths and the merchants. +004:001 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were + building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, + and mocked the Jews. +004:002 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, + What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? + will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? + will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, + seeing they are burned? +004:003 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that + which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break + down their stone wall. +004:004 Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their + reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil + in a land of captivity; +004:005 and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be + blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] + to anger before the builders. +004:006 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together + to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work. +004:007 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, + the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing + of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches + began to be stopped, then they were very angry; +004:008 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight + against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. +004:009 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them + day and night, because of them. +004:010 Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, + and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to + build the wall. +004:011 Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, + until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, + and cause the work to cease. +004:012 It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said + to us ten times from all places, You must return to us. +004:013 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, + in the open places, I set [there] the people after their + families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. +004:014 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, + and to the rest of the people, Don't be you afraid of them: + remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight + for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, + and your houses. +004:015 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, + and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned + all of us to the wall, everyone to his work. +004:016 It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked + 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. +004:017 They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; + everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with + the other held his weapon; +004:018 and the builders, everyone had his sword girded by his side, + and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me. +004:019 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, + The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, + one far from another: +004:020 in whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort you + there to us; our God will fight for us. +004:021 So we worked in the work: and half of them held the spears + from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. +004:022 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone + with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night + they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day. +004:023 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men + of the guard who followed me, none of us put off our clothes, + everyone [went with] his weapon [to] the water. +005:001 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives + against their brothers the Jews. +005:002 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: + let us get grain, that we may eat and live. +005:003 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, + and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, + because of the dearth. +005:004 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's + tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards. +005:005 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children + as their children: and behold, we bring into bondage our sons + and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters + are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power + to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards. +005:006 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. +005:007 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles + and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of + his brother. I held a great assembly against them. +005:008 I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers + the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you + even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? + Then held they their peace, and found never a word. +005:009 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you + not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach + of the nations our enemies? +005:010 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money + and grain. Please let us leave off this usury. +005:011 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, + their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, + also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, + the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them. +005:012 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require + nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. + Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, + that they would do according to this promise. +005:013 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man + from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform + this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. + All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. + The people did according to this promise. +005:014 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their + governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year + even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, + [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten + the bread of the governor. +005:015 But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to + the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels + of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: + but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God. +005:016 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought + we any land: and all my servants were gathered there + to the work. +005:017 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, + one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among + the nations that were round about us. +005:018 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox + and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, + and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: + yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, + because the bondage was heavy on this people. +005:019 Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done + for this people. +006:001 Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, + and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I + had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; + (though even to that time I had not set up the doors + in the gates;) +006:002 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us + meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. + But they thought to do me mischief. +006:003 I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, + so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, + while I leave it, and come down to you? +006:004 They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered + them after the same manner. +006:005 Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth + time with an open letter in his hand, +006:006 in which was written, It is reported among the nations, + and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; + for which cause you are building the wall: and you would + be their king, according to these words. +006:007 You have also appointed prophets to preach of you + at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now + shall it be reported to the king according to these words. + Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together. +006:008 Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done + as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart. +006:009 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands + shall be weakened from the work, that it not be done. + But now, [God], strengthen you my hands. +006:010 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son + of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet + together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us + shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; + yes, in the night will they come to kill you. +006:011 I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, + being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? + I will not go in. +006:012 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced + this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. +006:013 For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, + and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, + that they might reproach me. +006:014 Remember, 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. +006:015 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the + month] Elul, in fifty-two days. +006:016 It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all + the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast + down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work + was worked of our God. +006:017 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters + to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them. +006:018 For there were many in Judah sworn to 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 as wife. +006:019 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported + my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. +007:001 Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, + and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, +007:002 that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of + the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, + and feared God above many. +007:003 I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened + until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], + let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches + of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, + and everyone [to be] over against his house. +007:004 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, + and the houses were not built. +007:005 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, + and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned + by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those + who came up at the first, and I found written therein: +007:006 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, + and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city; +007:007 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, + Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. + The number of the men of the people of Israel: +007:008 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. +007:009 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. +007:010 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two. +007:011 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, + two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen. +007:012 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +007:013 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five. +007:014 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. +007:015 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight. +007:016 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight. +007:017 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two. +007:018 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven. +007:019 The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven. +007:020 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five. +007:021 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. +007:022 The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight. +007:023 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four. +007:024 The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve. +007:025 The children of Gibeon, ninety-five. +007:026 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight. +007:027 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. +007:028 The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two. +007:029 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, + seven hundred forty-three. +007:030 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. +007:031 The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two. +007:032 The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three. +007:033 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. +007:034 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +007:035 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty. +007:036 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. +007:037 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. +007:038 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty. +007:039 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, + nine hundred seventy-three. +007:040 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. +007:041 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. +007:042 The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen. +007:043 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children + of Hodevah, seventy-four. +007:044 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight. +007:045 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, one hundred thirty-eight. +007:046 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, + the children of Tabbaoth, +007:047 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, +007:048 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, + the children of Salmai, +007:049 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, +007:050 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, +007:051 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah. +007:052 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, + the children of Nephushesim, +007:053 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, + the children of Harhur, +007:054 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, + the children of Harsha, +007:055 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, +007:056 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. +007:057 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, + the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, +007:058 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, +007:059 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children + of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon. +007:060 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, + were three hundred ninety-two. +007:061 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, + Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' + houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel: +007:062 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children + of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. +007:063 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. +007:064 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned + by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they + deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. +007:065 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most + holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. +007:066 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand + three hundred sixty, +007:067 besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom + there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they + had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women. +007:068 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, + two hundred forty-five; +007:069 [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, + six thousand seven hundred twenty. +007:070 Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. + The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, + fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments. +007:071 Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury + of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand + two hundred minas of silver. +007:072 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand + darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, + and sixty-seven priests' garments. +007:073 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, + and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, + lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, + the children of Israel were in their cities. +008:001 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into + the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke + to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, + which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. +008:002 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, + both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, + on the first day of the seventh month. +008:003 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water + gate from early morning until midday, in the presence + of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; + and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book + of the law. +008:004 Ezra the scribe stood on 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. +008:005 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: +008:006 and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people + answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: + and they bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their + faces to the ground. +008:007 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 [stood] in their place. +008:008 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they + gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. +008:009 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, + and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, + This day is holy to Yahweh your God; don't mourn, nor weep. + For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. +008:010 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, + and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; + for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; + for the joy of Yahweh is your strength. +008:011 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, + for the day is holy; neither be you grieved. +008:012 All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, + and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they + had understood the words that were declared to them. +008:013 On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' + [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, + to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words + of the law. +008:014 They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded + by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths + in the feast of the seventh month; +008:015 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, + and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get + olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, + and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, + as it is written. +008:016 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made + themselves booths, everyone on the roof of his house, + and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, + and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad + place of the gate of Ephraim. +008:017 All the assembly of those who were come again out of the captivity + made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua + the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. + There was very great gladness. +008:018 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, + he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast + seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, + according to the ordinance. +009:001 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children + of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, + and earth on them. +009:002 The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, + and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities + of their fathers. +009:003 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law + of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and [another] + fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God. +009:004 Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, + and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, + and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. +009:005 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, + Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up + and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting; + and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above + all blessing and praise. +009:006 You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, + the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all + things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, + and you preserve them all; and the army of heaven worships you. +009:007 You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him + forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham, +009:008 and found his heart faithful before you, and made 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 to his seed, and have performed your words; + for you are righteous. +009:009 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard + their cry by the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, +009:010 and shown signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, + and on all the people of his land; for you knew that they + dealt proudly against them, and did get you a name, as it + is this day. +009:011 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through + the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers you + did cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. +009:012 Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; + and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way + in which they should go. +009:013 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them + from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, + good statutes and commandments, +009:014 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded + them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, +009:015 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought + forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, + and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land + which you had sworn to give them. +009:016 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, + and didn't listen to your commandments, +009:017 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders + that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their + rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. + But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, + slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, + and didn't forsake them. +009:018 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, + This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had + committed awful blasphemies; +009:019 yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in + the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over + them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar + of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which + they should go. +009:020 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't + withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water + for their thirst. +009:021 Yes, forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness, + [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't grow old, + and their feet didn't swell. +009:022 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did allot + after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, + even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og + king of Bashan. +009:023 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, + and brought them into the land concerning which you did say + to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. +009:024 So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued + before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, + and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples + of the land, that they might do with them as they would. +009:025 They took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed + houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, + vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: + so they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted + themselves in your great goodness. +009:026 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, + and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets + that testified against them to turn them again to you, + and they committed awful blasphemies. +009:027 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, + who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, + when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according + to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them + out of the hand of their adversaries. +009:028 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; + therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, + so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, + and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times did + you deliver them according to your mercies, +009:029 and testified against them, that you might bring them again + to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen + to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, + (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew + the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. +009:030 Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified + against them by your Spirit through your prophets: + yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into + the hand of the peoples of the lands. +009:031 Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full + end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious + and merciful God. +009:032 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, + who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail + seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, + on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, + and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time + of the kings of Assyria to this day. +009:033 However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have + dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; +009:034 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, + kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your + testimonies with which you did testify against them. +009:035 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your + great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat + land which you gave before them, neither turned they from + their wicked works. +009:036 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you + gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good + of it, behold, we are servants in it. +009:037 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us + because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, + and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are + in great distress. +009:038 Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; + and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it. +010:001 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son + of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, +010:002 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, +010:003 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, +010:004 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, +010:005 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, +010:006 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, +010:007 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, +010:008 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests. +010:009 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of + the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; +010:010 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, +010:011 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, +010:012 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, +010:013 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. +010:014 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, +010:015 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, +010:016 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, +010:017 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, +010:018 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, +010:019 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, +010:020 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, +010:021 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, +010:022 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, +010:023 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, +010:024 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, +010:025 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, +010:026 and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, +010:027 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. +010:028 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, + the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated + themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, + their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who + had knowledge, and understanding; +010:029 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered + into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, + which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe + and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his + ordinances and his statutes; +010:030 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, + nor take their daughters for our sons; +010:031 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath + day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, + or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, + and the exaction of every debt. +010:032 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly + with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house + of our God; +010:033 for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, + and for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, + 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. +010:034 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, + 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 on the altar of Yahweh our God, + as it is written in the law; +010:035 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first + fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, + to the house of Yahweh; +010:036 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, + as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds + and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, + to the priests who minister in the house of our God; +010:037 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, + and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, + the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of + the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; + for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities + of our tillage. +010:038 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, + when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up + the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, + into the treasure house. +010:039 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring + the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, + to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, + and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: + and we will not forsake the house of our God. +011:001 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the 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. +011:002 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves + to dwell in Jerusalem. +011:003 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: + but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession + in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, + and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. +011:004 In Jerusalem lived certain of the children of Judah, + and of the children of Benjamin. 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; +011:005 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, + the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, + the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. +011:006 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred + sixty-eight valiant men. +011:007 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. +011:008 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight. +011:009 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son + of Hassenuah was second over the city. +011:010 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin, +011:011 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son + of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler + of the house of God, +011:012 and their brothers who did the work of the house, + eight hundred twenty-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, +011:013 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers' [houses], two hundred forty-two; + and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son + of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, +011:014 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; + and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim. +011:015 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, + the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; +011:016 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, + who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God; +011:017 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 brothers; and Abda the son + of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. +011:018 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four. +011:019 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, + who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two. +011:020 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all + the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance. +011:021 But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were + over the Nethinim. +011:022 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, over the business + of the house of God. +011:023 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, + and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required. +011:024 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah + the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters + concerning the people. +011:025 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children + of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and the towns of it, and in Dibon + and the towns of it, and in Jekabzeel and the villages of it, +011:026 and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth Pelet, +011:027 and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and the towns of it, +011:028 and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in the towns of it, +011:029 and in En Rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth, +011:030 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and the fields of it, + Azekah and the towns of it. So they encamped from Beersheba + to the valley of Hinnom. +011:031 The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], + at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it, +011:032 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, +011:033 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, +011:034 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, +011:035 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. +011:036 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah [were joined] to Benjamin. +012:001 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel + the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, +012:002 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, +012:003 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, +012:004 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, +012:005 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, +012:006 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah. +012:007 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of + the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua. +012:008 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, + [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, + he and his brothers. +012:009 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them + according to their offices. +012:010 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father + of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada, +012:011 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became + the father of Jaddua. +012:012 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' + [houses]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; +012:013 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; +012:014 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; +012:015 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; +012:016 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; +012:017 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; +012:018 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; +012:019 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; +012:020 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; +012:021 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel. +012:022 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, + and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' [houses]; + also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian. +012:023 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' [houses], were written + in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan + the son of Eliashib. +012:024 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua + the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, + to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment + of David the man of God, watch next to watch. +012:025 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, + were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates. +012:026 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 the scribe. +012:027 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 giving thanks, + and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, + and with harps. +012:028 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out + of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the villages + of the Netophathites; +012:029 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: + for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem. +012:030 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they + purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. +012:031 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed + two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. + [One went] on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate; +012:032 and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, +012:033 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, +012:034 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, +012:035 and certain 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; +012:036 and his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, + Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments + of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them. +012:037 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up + by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, + above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward. +012:038 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, + and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, + above the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall, +012:039 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 to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate + of the guard. +012:040 So stood the two companies of those who gave thanks in the house + of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me; +012:041 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, + Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; +012:042 and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, + and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, + with Jezrahiah their overseer. +012:043 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; + for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women + also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem + was heard even afar off. +012:044 On that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, + for the wave 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 who waited. +012:045 They kept the charge of their God, and the charge of + the purification, and [so did] the singers and the porters, + according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. +012:046 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief + of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. +012:047 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days + of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, + 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. +013:001 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience + of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite + and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever, +013:002 because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread + and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: + however our God turned the curse into a blessing. +013:003 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they + separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. +013:004 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over + the chambers of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah, +013:005 had prepared for him a great chamber, where before 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 porters; and the wave offerings for the priests. +013:006 But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and + thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: + and after certain days asked I leave of the king, +013:007 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib + had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts + of the house of God. +013:008 It grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household + stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. +013:009 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: + and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, + with the meal offerings and the frankincense. +013:010 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; + so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, + were fled everyone to his field. +013:011 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house + of God forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them + in their place. +013:012 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the new wine + and the oil to the treasuries. +013:013 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 to their brothers. +013:014 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out + my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, + and for the observances of it. +013:015 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on + the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys [therewith]; + as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, + which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: + and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food. +013:016 There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, + and all manner of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children + of Judah, and in Jerusalem. +013:017 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, + What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day? +013:018 Didn't your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all + this evil on us, and on this city? yet you bring more wrath + on Israel by profaning the Sabbath. +013:019 It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark + before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, + and commanded that they should not be opened until after + the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, + that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day. +013:020 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged + outside of Jerusalem once or twice. +013:021 Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you + about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. + From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath. +013:022 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, + and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify + the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare + me according to the greatness of your loving kindness. +013:023 In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, + of Ammon, [and] of Moab: +013:024 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, + and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according + to the language of each people. +013:025 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain + of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear + by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, + nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. +013:026 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet + among many nations was there no king like him, and he was + beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: + nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin. +013:027 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, + to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women? +013:028 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. +013:029 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, + and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. +013:030 Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges + for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work; +013:031 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the + first fruits. 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