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Book 16 Nehemiah
16:001:001 The words of Nehemiah
the son of Hachaliah. And it came to
pass in the month
Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in
Shushan the palace,
16:001:002 That Hanani, one of my
brethren, came, he and certain men of
Judah; and I asked them
concerning the Jews that had escaped,
which were left of the
captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
16:001:003 And they said unto me,
The remnant that 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 thereof are
burned with fire.
16:001:004 And it came to pass,
when I heard these words, that I sat down
and wept, and mourned
certain days, and fasted, and prayed
before the God of
heaven,
16:001:005 And said, I beseech
thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and
terrible God, that
keepeth covenant and mercy for them that
love him and observe
his commandments:
16:001:006 Let thine ear now be
attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou
mayest hear the prayer
of thy servant, which I pray before
thee now, day and
night, for the children of Israel thy
servants, and confess
the sins of the children of Israel,
which we have sinned
against thee: both I and my father's
house have sinned.
16:001:007 We have dealt very
corruptly against thee, and have not kept
the commandments, nor
the statutes, nor the judgments, which
thou commandedst thy
servant Moses.
16:001:008 Remember, I beseech
thee, the word that thou commandedst thy
servant Moses, saying,
If ye transgress, I will scatter you
abroad among the
nations:
16:001:009 But if ye turn unto me,
and keep my commandments, and do them;
though there were of
you cast out unto the uttermost part of
the heaven, yet will I
gather them from thence, and will bring
them unto the place
that I have chosen to set my name there.
16:001:010 Now these are thy
servants and thy people, whom thou hast
redeemed by thy great
power, and by thy strong hand.
16:001:011 O LORD, I beseech thee,
let now thine ear be attentive to the
prayer of thy servant,
and to the prayer of thy servants, who
desire to fear thy
name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant
this day, and grant him
mercy in the sight of this man. For I
was the king's
cupbearer.
16:002:001 And it came to pass in
the month Nisan, in the twentieth year
of Artaxerxes the king,
that wine was before him: and I took
up the wine, and gave
it unto the king. Now I had not been
beforetime sad in his
presence.
16:002:002 Wherefore the king said
unto me, Why is thy countenance sad,
seeing thou art not
sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of
heart. Then I was very
sore afraid,
16:002:003 And said unto the king,
Let the king live for ever: why should
not my countenance be
sad, when the city, the place of my
fathers' sepulchres,
lieth waste, and the gates thereof are
consumed with fire?
16:002:004 Then the king said unto
me, For what dost thou make request?
So I prayed to the God
of heaven.
16:002:005 And I said unto the
king, If it please the king, and if thy
servant have found
favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest
send me unto Judah,
unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres,
that I may build it.
16:002:006 And the king said unto
me, (the queen also sitting by him,)
For how long shall thy
journey be? and when wilt thou return?
So it pleased the king
to send me; and I set him a time.
16:002:007 Moreover I said unto
the king, If it please the king, let
letters be given me to
the governors beyond the river, that
they may convey me over
till I come into Judah;
16:002:008 And a letter unto Asaph
the keeper of the king's forest, that
he may give me timber
to make beams for the gates of the
palace which
appertained to the house, and for the wall of the
city, and for the house
that I shall enter into. And the king
granted me, according
to the good hand of my God upon me.
16:002:009 Then I came to the
governors beyond the river, and gave them
the king's letters. Now
the king had sent captains of the army
and horsemen with me.
16:002:010 When Sanballat the
Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, heard of it,
it grieved them exceedingly that there
was come a man to seek
the welfare of the children of Israel.
16:002:011 So I came to Jerusalem,
and was there three days.
16:002:012 And I arose in the
night, I and some few men with me; neither
told I any man what my
God had put in my heart to do at
Jerusalem: neither was
there any beast with me, save the beast
that I rode upon.
16:002:013 And I went out by night
by the gate of the valley, even before
the dragon well, and to
the dung port, and viewed the walls of
Jerusalem, which were
broken down, and the gates thereof were
consumed with fire.
16:002:014 Then I went on to the
gate of the fountain, and to the king's
pool: but there was no
place for the beast that was under me
to pass.
16:002:015 Then went I up in the
night by the brook, and viewed the wall,
and turned back, and
entered by the gate of the valley, and so
returned.
16:002:016 And the rulers knew not
whither 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 that did the
work.
16:002:017 Then said I unto them,
Ye see the distress that we are in, how
Jerusalem lieth waste,
and the gates thereof are burned with
fire: come, and let us
build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we
be no more a reproach.
16:002:018 Then I told them of the
hand of my God which was good upon me;
as also the king's
words that he had spoken unto me. And they
said, Let us rise up
and build. So they strengthened their
hands for this good
work.
16:002:019 But when Sanballat the
Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, and Geshem
the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to
scorn, and despised us,
and said, What is this thing that ye
do? will ye rebel
against the king?
16:002:020 Then answered I them,
and said unto them, The God of heaven,
he will prosper us;
therefore we his servants will arise and
build: but ye have no
portion, nor right, nor memorial, in
Jerusalem.
16:003:001 Then Eliashib the high
priest rose up with his brethren the
priests, and they
builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it,
and set up the doors of
it; even unto the tower of Meah they
sanctified it, unto the
tower of Hananeel.
16:003:002 And next unto him
builded the men of Jericho. And next to them
builded Zaccur the son
of Imri.
16:003:003 But the fish gate did
the sons of Hassenaah build, who also
laid the beams thereof,
and set up the doors thereof, the
locks thereof, and the
bars thereof.
16:003:004 And next unto them
repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the
son of Koz. And next
unto them repaired Meshullam the son of
Berechiah, the son of
Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired
Zadok the son of Baana.
16:003:005 And next unto them the
Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put
not their necks to the
work of their LORD.
16:003:006 Moreover the old gate
repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and
Meshullam the son of
Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof,
and set up the doors
thereof, and the locks thereof, and the
bars thereof.
16:003:007 And next unto them
repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon
the Meronothite, the
men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the
throne of the governor
on this side the river.
16:003:008 Next unto him repaired
Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the
goldsmiths. Next unto
him also repaired Hananiah the son of
one of the
apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the
broad wall.
16:003:009 And next unto them
repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler
of the half part of
Jerusalem.
16:003:010 And next unto them
repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even
over against his house.
And next unto him repaired Hattush the
son of Hashabniah.
16:003:011 Malchijah the son of
Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab,
repaired the other
piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
16:003:012 And next unto him
repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the
ruler of the half part
of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
16:003:013 The valley gate
repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
they built it, and set
up the doors thereof, the locks
thereof, and the bars
thereof, and a thousand cubits on the
wall unto the dung
gate.
16:003:014 But the dung gate
repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the
ruler of part of
Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the
doors thereof, the
locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
16:003:015 But the gate of the
fountain repaired Shallun the son of
Colhozeh, the ruler of
part of Mizpah; he built it, and
covered it, and set up
the doors thereof, the locks thereof,
and the bars thereof,
and the wall of the pool of Siloah by
the king's garden, and
unto the stairs that go down from the
city of David.
16:003:016 After him repaired
Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the
half part of Bethzur,
unto the place over against the
sepulchres of David,
and to the pool that was made, and unto
the house of the
mighty.
16:003:017 After him repaired the
Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next
unto him repaired
Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of
Keilah, in his part.
16:003:018 After him repaired
their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad,
the ruler of the half
part of Keilah.
16:003:019 And next to him
repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of
Mizpah, another piece
over against the going up to the armoury
at the turning of the
wall.
16:003:020 After him Baruch the
son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the
other piece, from the
turning of the wall unto the door of the
house of Eliashib the
high priest.
16:003:021 After him repaired
Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz
another piece, from the
door of the house of Eliashib even to
the end of the house of
Eliashib.
16:003:022 And after him repaired
the priests, the men of the plain.
16:003:023 After him repaired
Benjamin and Hashub over against their
house. After him
repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son
of Ananiah by his
house.
16:003:024 After him repaired
Binnui the son of Henadad another piece,
from the house of
Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even
unto the corner.
16:003:025 Palal the son of Uzai,
over against the turning of the wall,
and the tower which
lieth out from the king's high house, that
was by the court of the
prison. After him Pedaiah the son of
Parosh.
16:003:026 Moreover the Nethinims
dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over
against the water gate
toward the east, and the tower that
lieth out.
16:003:027 After them the Tekoites
repaired another piece, over against
the great tower that
lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
16:003:028 From above the horse
gate repaired the priests, every one over
against his house.
16:003:029 After them repaired
Zadok the son of Immer over against his
house. After him
repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah,
the keeper of the east
gate.
16:003:030 After him repaired
Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun
the sixth son of Zalaph,
another piece. After him repaired
Meshullam the son of
Berechiah over against his chamber.
16:003:031 After him repaired
Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place
of the Nethinims, and
of the merchants, over against the gate
Miphkad, and to the
going up of the corner.
16:003:032 And between the going
up of the corner unto the sheep gate
repaired the goldsmiths
and the merchants.
16:004:001 But it came to pass,
that when Sanballat heard that we builded
the wall, he was wroth,
and took great indignation, and mocked
the Jews.
16:004:002 And he spake before his
brethren and the army of Samaria, and
said, What do these
feeble Jews? 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 the rubbish which are
burned?
16:004:003 Now Tobiah the Ammonite
was by him, and he said, Even that
which they build, if a
fox go up, he shall even break down
their stone wall.
16:004:004 Hear, O our God; for we
are despised: and turn their reproach
upon their own head,
and give them for a prey in the land of
captivity:
16:004:005 And cover not their
iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted
out from before thee:
for they have provoked thee to anger
before the builders.
16:004:006 So built we the wall;
and all the wall was joined together
unto the half thereof:
for the people had a mind to work.
16:004:007 But it came to pass,
that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the
Arabians, and the
Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that
the walls of Jerusalem
were made up, and that the breaches
began to be stopped,
then they were very wroth,
16:004:008 And conspired all of
them together to come and to fight
against Jerusalem, and
to hinder it.
16:004:009 Nevertheless we made
our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
against them day and
night, because of them.
16:004:010 And 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.
16:004:011 And our adversaries
said, They shall not know, neither see,
till we come in the
midst among them, and slay them, and cause
the work to cease.
16:004:012 And it came to pass,
that when the Jews which dwelt by them
came, they said unto us
ten times, From all places whence ye
shall return unto us
they will be upon you.
16:004:013 Therefore set I in the
lower places behind the wall, and on
the higher places, I
even set the people after their families
with their swords,
their spears, and their bows.
16:004:014 And I looked, and rose
up, and said unto the nobles, and to
the rulers, and to the
rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of
them: remember the
LORD, which is great and terrible, and
fight for your
brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your
wives, and your houses.
16:004:015 And it came to pass,
when our enemies heard that it was known
unto us, and God had
brought their counsel to nought, that we
returned all of us to
the wall, every one unto his work.
16:004:016 And it came to pass
from that time forth, that the half of my
servants wrought in the
work, and the other half of them held
both the spears, the
shields, and the bows, and the
habergeons; and the
rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
16:004:017 They which builded on
the wall, and they that bare burdens,
with those that laded,
every one with one of his hands wrought
in the work, and with
the other hand held a weapon.
16:004:018 For the builders, every
one had his sword girded by his side,
and so builded. And he
that sounded the trumpet was by me.
16:004:019 And I said unto the
nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest
of the people, The work
is great and large, and we are
separated upon the
wall, one far from another.
16:004:020 In what place therefore
ye hear the sound of the trumpet,
resort ye thither unto
us: our God shall fight for us.
16:004:021 So we laboured in the
work: and half of them held the spears
from the rising of the
morning till the stars appeared.
16:004:022 Likewise at the same
time said I unto the people, Let every
one with his servant
lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night
they may be a guard to
us, and labour on the day.
16:004:023 So neither I, nor my
brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of
the guard which
followed me, none of us put off our clothes,
saving that every one
put them off for washing.
16:005:001 And there was a great
cry of the people and of their wives
against their brethren
the Jews.
16:005:002 For there were that
said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are
many: therefore we take
up corn for them, that we may eat, and
live.
16:005:003 Some also there were
that said, We have mortgaged our lands,
vineyards, and houses,
that we might buy corn, because of the
dearth.
16:005:004 There were also that
said, We have borrowed money for the
king's tribute, and
that upon our lands and vineyards.
16:005:005 Yet now our flesh is as
the flesh of our brethren, our
children as their
children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our
sons and our daughters
to be servants, and some of our
daughters are brought
unto bondage already: neither is it in
our power to redeem
them; for other men have our lands and
vineyards.
16:005:006 And I was very angry
when I heard their cry and these words.
16:005:007 Then I consulted with
myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and
the rulers, and said
unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of
his brother. And I set
a great assembly against them.
16:005:008 And I said unto them,
We after our ability have redeemed our
brethren the Jews,
which were sold unto the heathen; and will
ye even sell your
brethren? or shall they be sold unto us?
Then held they their
peace, and found nothing to answer.
16:005:009 Also I said, It is not
good that ye do: ought ye not to walk
in the fear of our God
because of the reproach of the heathen
our enemies?
16:005:010 I likewise, and my
brethren, and my servants, might exact of
them money and corn: I
pray you, let us leave off this usury.
16:005:011 Restore, I pray you, to
them, even this day, their lands,
their vineyards, their
oliveyards, and their houses, also the
hundredth part of the
money, and of the corn, the wine, and
the oil, that ye exact
of them.
16:005:012 Then said they, We will
restore them, and will require nothing
of them; so will we do
as thou sayest. Then I called the
priests, and took an
oath of them, that they should do
according to this
promise.
16:005:013 Also I shook my lap,
and said, So God shake out every man from
his house, and from his
labour, that performeth not this
promise, even thus be
he shaken out, and emptied. And all the
congregation said,
Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people
did according to this
promise.
16:005:014 Moreover from the time
that I was appointed to be their
governor in the land of
Judah, from the twentieth year even
unto the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that
is, twelve years, I and
my brethren have not eaten the bread
of the governor.
16:005:015 But the former
governors that had been before me were
chargeable unto the
people, and had taken of them bread and
wine, beside forty
shekels of silver; yea, even their servants
bare rule over the
people: but so did not I, because of the
fear of God.
16:005:016 Yea, also I continued
in the work of this wall, neither bought
we any land: and all my
servants were gathered thither unto
the work.
16:005:017 Moreover there were at
my table an hundred and fifty of the
Jews and rulers, beside
those that came unto us from among the
heathen that are about
us.
16:005:018 Now that which was
prepared for me daily 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 required not
I the bread of the
governor, because the bondage was heavy
upon this people.
16:005:019 Think upon me, my God,
for good, according to all that I have
done for this people.
16:006:001 Now it came to pass
when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the
Arabian, and the rest
of our enemies, heard that I had builded
the wall, and that
there was no breach left therein; (though
at that time I had not
set up the doors upon the gates;)
16:006:002 That Sanballat and
Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us
meet together in some
one of the villages in the plain of Ono.
But they thought to do
me mischief.
16:006:003 And I sent messengers
unto them, saying, I am doing a great
work, so that I cannot
come down: why should the work cease,
whilst I leave it, and
come down to you?
16:006:004 Yet they sent unto me
four times after this sort; and I
answered them after the
same manner.
16:006:005 Then sent Sanballat his
servant unto me in like manner the
fifth time with an open
letter in his hand;
16:006:006 Wherein was written, It
is reported among the heathen, and
Gashmu saith it, that
thou and the Jews think to rebel: for
which cause thou
buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their
king, according to
these words.
16:006:007 And thou hast also
appointed prophets to preach of thee 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.
16:006:008 Then I sent unto him,
saying, There are no such things done as
thou sayest, but thou
feignest them out of thine own heart.
16:006:009 For they all made us
afraid, saying, Their hands shall be
weakened from the work,
that it be not done. Now therefore, O
God, strengthen my
hands.
16:006:010 Afterward I came unto
the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah
the son of Mehetabeel,
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 slay
thee; yea, in the night
will they come to slay thee.
16:006:011 And I said, Should such
a man as I flee? and who is there,
that, being as I am,
would go into the temple to save his
life? I will not go in.
16:006:012 And, lo, I perceived
that God had not sent him; but that he
pronounced this
prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat
had hired him.
16:006:013 Therefore 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.
16:006:014 My God, think thou upon
Tobiah and Sanballat according to
these their works, and
on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest
of the prophets, that
would have put me in fear.
16:006:015 So the wall was
finished in the twenty and fifth day of the
month Elul, in fifty
and two days.
16:006:016 And it came to pass,
that when all our enemies heard thereof,
and all the heathen
that were about us saw these things, they
were much cast down in
their own eyes: for they perceived that
this work was wrought
of our God.
16:006:017 Moreover in those days
the nobles of Judah sent many letters
unto Tobiah, and the
letters of Tobiah came unto them.
16:006:018 For there were many in
Judah sworn unto him, because he was
the son in law of
Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son
Johanan had taken the
daughter of Meshullam the son of
Berechiah.
16:006:019 Also they reported his
good deeds before me, and uttered my
words to him. And
Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
16:007:001 Now it came to pass,
when the wall was built, and I had set up
the doors, and the
porters and the singers and the Levites
were appointed,
16:007:002 That I gave my brother
Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the
palace, charge over
Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and
feared God above many.
16:007:003 And I said unto them,
Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened
until the sun be hot;
and while they stand by, let them shut
the doors, and bar
them: and appoint watches of the
inhabitants of
Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every
one to be over against
his house.
16:007:004 Now the city was large
and great: but the people were few
therein, and the houses
were not builded.
16:007:005 And my God put into
mine heart to gather together the nobles,
and the rulers, and the
people, that they might be reckoned by
genealogy. And I found
a register of the genealogy of them
which came up at the
first, and found written therein,
16:007:006 These are the children
of the province, that went up out of
the captivity, of those
that had been carried away, whom
Nebuchadnezzar the king
of Babylon had carried away, and came
again to Jerusalem and
to Judah, every one unto his city;
16:007:007 Who came with
Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah,
Nahamani, Mordecai,
Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.
The number, I say, of
the men of the people of Israel was
this;
16:007:008 The children of Parosh,
two thousand an hundred seventy and
two.
16:007:009 The children of
Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
16:007:010 The children of Arah,
six hundred fifty and two.
16:007:011 The children of
Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and
Joab, two thousand and
eight hundred and eighteen.
16:007:012 The children of Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty and four.
16:007:013 The children of Zattu,
eight hundred forty and five.
16:007:014 The children of Zaccai,
seven hundred and threescore.
16:007:015 The children of Binnui,
six hundred forty and eight.
16:007:016 The children of Bebai,
six hundred twenty and eight.
16:007:017 The children of Azgad,
two thousand three hundred twenty and
two.
16:007:018 The children of
Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
16:007:019 The children of Bigvai,
two thousand threescore and seven.
16:007:020 The children of Adin,
six hundred fifty and five.
16:007:021 The children of Ater of
Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
16:007:022 The children of Hashum,
three hundred twenty and eight.
16:007:023 The children of Bezai,
three hundred twenty and four.
16:007:024 The children of Hariph,
an hundred and twelve.
16:007:025 The children of Gibeon,
ninety and five.
16:007:026 The men of Bethlehem
and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and
eight.
16:007:027 The men of Anathoth, an
hundred twenty and eight.
16:007:028 The men of Bethazmaveth,
forty and two.
16:007:029 The men of
Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
hundred forty and
three.
16:007:030 The men of Ramah and
Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
16:007:031 The men of Michmas, an
hundred and twenty and two.
16:007:032 The men of Bethel and
Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
16:007:033 The men of the other
Nebo, fifty and two.
16:007:034 The children of the
other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty
and four.
16:007:035 The children of Harim,
three hundred and twenty.
16:007:036 The children of
Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
16:007:037 The children of Lod,
Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
one.
16:007:038 The children of Senaah,
three thousand nine hundred and
thirty.
16:007:039 The priests: the
children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy
and three.
16:007:040 The children of Immer,
a thousand fifty and two.
16:007:041 The children of Pashur,
a thousand two hundred forty and
seven.
16:007:042 The children of Harim,
a thousand and seventeen.
16:007:043 The Levites: the
children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the
children of Hodevah,
seventy and four.
16:007:044 The singers: the
children of Asaph, an hundred forty and
eight.
16:007:045 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, an hundred thirty and eight.
16:007:046 The Nethinims: the
children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha,
the children of
Tabbaoth,
16:007:047 The children of Keros,
the children of Sia, the children of
Padon,
16:007:048 The children of Lebana,
the children of Hagaba, the children
of Shalmai,
16:007:049 The children of Hanan,
the children of Giddel, the children of
Gahar,
16:007:050 The children of Reaiah,
the children of Rezin, the children of
Nekoda,
16:007:051 The children of Gazzam,
the children of Uzza, the children of
Phaseah,
16:007:052 The children of Besai,
the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephishesim,
16:007:053 The children of Bakbuk,
the children of Hakupha, the children
of Harhur,
16:007:054 The children of Bazlith,
the children of Mehida, the children
of Harsha,
16:007:055 The children of Barkos,
the children of Sisera, the children
of Tamah,
16:007:056 The children of Neziah,
the children of Hatipha.
16:007:057 The children of
Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the
children of Sophereth,
the children of Perida,
16:007:058 The children of Jaala,
the children of Darkon, the children of
Giddel,
16:007:059 The children of
Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
children of Pochereth
of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
16:007:060 All the Nethinims, and
the children of Solomon's servants,
were three hundred
ninety and two.
16:007:061 And these were they
which went up also from Telmelah,
Telharesha, Cherub,
Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew
their father's house,
nor their seed, whether they were of
Israel.
16:007:062 The children of Delaiah,
the children of Tobiah, the children
of Nekoda, six hundred
forty and two.
16:007:063 And of the priests: the
children of Habaiah, the children of
Koz, the children of
Barzillai, which took one of the
daughters of Barzillai
the Gileadite to wife, and was called
after their name.
16:007:064 These sought their
register among those that were reckoned by
genealogy, but it was
not found: therefore were they, as
polluted, put from the
priesthood.
16:007:065 And the Tirshatha said
unto them, that they should not eat of
the most holy things,
till there stood up a priest with Urim
and Thummim.
16:007:066 The whole congregation
together was forty and two thousand
three hundred and
threescore,
16:007:067 Beside their
manservants and their maidservants, of whom there
were seven thousand
three hundred thirty and seven: and they
had two hundred forty
and five singing men and singing women.
16:007:068 Their horses, seven
hundred thirty and six: their mules, two
hundred forty and five:
16:007:069 Their camels, four
hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven
hundred and twenty
asses.
16:007:070 And some of the chief
of the fathers gave unto the work. The
Tirshatha gave to the
treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty
basons, five hundred
and thirty priests' garments.
16:007:071 And some of the chief
of the fathers gave to the treasure of
the work twenty
thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and
two hundred pound of
silver.
16:007:072 And that which the rest
of the people gave was twenty thousand
drams of gold, and two
thousand pound of silver, and
threescore and seven
priests' garments.
16:007:073 So the priests, and the
Levites, and the porters, and the
singers, and some of
the people, and the Nethinims, and all
Israel, dwelt in their
cities; and when the seventh month
came, the children of
Israel were in their cities.
16:008:001 And all the people
gathered themselves together as one man
into the street that
was before the water gate; and they spake
unto Ezra the scribe to
bring the book of the law of Moses,
which the LORD had
commanded to Israel.
16:008:002 And Ezra the priest
brought the law before the congregation
both of men and women,
and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the
first day of the seventh month.
16:008:003 And he read therein
before the street that was before the
water gate from the
morning until midday, before the men and
the women, and those
that could understand; and the ears of
all the people were
attentive unto the book of the law.
16:008:004 And Ezra the scribe
stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they
had made for the
purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and
Shema, and Anaiah, and
Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on
his right hand; and on
his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael,
and Malchiah, and
Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and
Meshullam.
16:008:005 And Ezra opened the
book in the sight of all the people; (for
he was above all the
people;) and when he opened it, all the
people stood up:
16:008:006 And Ezra blessed the
LORD, the great God. And all the people
answered, Amen, Amen,
with lifting up their hands: and they
bowed their heads, and
worshipped the LORD with their faces to
the ground.
16:008:007 Also Jeshua, and Bani,
and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
Shabbethai, Hodijah,
Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
Levites, caused the people to
understand the law: and
the people stood in their place.
16:008:008 So they read in the
book in the law of God distinctly, and
gave the sense, and
caused them to understand the reading.
16:008:009 And Nehemiah, which is
the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
scribe, and the Levites
that taught the people, said unto all
the people, This day is
holy unto the LORD your God; mourn
not, nor weep. For all
the people wept, when they heard the
words of the law.
16:008:010 Then he said unto them,
Go your way, eat the fat, and drink
the sweet, and send
portions unto them for whom nothing is
prepared: for this day
is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye
sorry; for the joy of
the LORD is your strength.
16:008:011 So the Levites stilled
all the people, saying, Hold your
peace, for the day is
holy; neither be ye grieved.
16:008:012 And 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 unto them.
16:008:013 And on the second day
were gathered together the chief of the
fathers of all the
people, the priests, and the Levites, unto
Ezra the scribe, even
to understand the words of the law.
16:008:014 And they found written
in the law which the LORD had commanded
by Moses, that the
children of Israel should dwell in booths
in the feast of the
seventh month:
16:008:015 And that they should
publish and proclaim in all their cities,
and in Jerusalem,
saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch
olive branches, and
pine branches, and myrtle branches, and
palm branches, and
branches of thick trees, to make booths, as
it is written.
16:008:016 So the people went
forth, and brought them, and made
themselves booths,
every one upon the roof of his house, and
in their courts, and in
the courts of the house of God, and in
the street of the water
gate, and in the street of the gate of
Ephraim.
16:008:017 And all the
congregation of them that were come again out of
the captivity made
booths, and sat under the booths: for since
the days of Jeshua the
son of Nun unto that day had not the
children of Israel done
so. And there was very great gladness.
16:008:018 Also day by day, from
the first day unto the last day, he read
in the book of the law
of God. And they kept the feast seven
days; and on the eighth
day was a solemn assembly, according
unto the manner.
16:009:001 Now in the twenty and
fourth day of this month the children of
Israel were assembled
with fasting, and with sackclothes, and
earth upon them.
16:009:002 And the seed of Israel
separated themselves from all
strangers, and stood
and confessed their sins, and the
iniquities of their
fathers.
16:009:003 And they stood up in
their place, and read in the book of the
law of the LORD their
God one fourth part of the day; and
another fourth part
they confessed, and worshipped the LORD
their God.
16:009:004 Then stood up upon the
stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and
Bani, Kadmiel,
Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani,
and cried with a loud
voice unto the LORD their God.
16:009:005 Then the Levites,
Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,
Sherebiah, Hodijah,
Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up
and bless the LORD your
God for ever and ever: and blessed be
thy glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and
praise.
16:009:006 Thou, even thou, art
LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the
heaven of heavens, with
all their host, the earth, and all
things that are
therein, the seas, and all that is therein,
and thou preservest
them all; and the host of heaven
worshippeth thee.
16:009:007 Thou art the LORD the
God, who didst choose Abram, and
broughtest him forth
out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him
the name of Abraham;
16:009:008 And foundest his heart
faithful before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to
give the land of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites,
and the Girgashites, to
give it, I say, to his seed, and hast
performed thy words;
for thou art righteous:
16:009:009 And didst see the
affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and
heardest their cry by
the Red sea;
16:009:010 And shewedst signs and
wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his
servants, and on all
the people of his land: for thou knewest
that they dealt proudly
against them. So didst thou get thee a
name, as it is this
day.
16:009:011 And thou didst divide
the sea before them, so that they went
through the midst of
the sea on the dry land; and their
persecutors thou
threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the
mighty waters.
16:009:012 Moreover thou leddest
them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and
in the night by a
pillar of fire, to give them light in the
way wherein they should
go.
16:009:013 Thou camest down also
upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them
from heaven, and gavest
them right judgments, and true laws,
good statutes and
commandments:
16:009:014 And madest known unto
them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst
them precepts,
statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy
servant:
16:009:015 And gavest them bread
from heaven for their hunger, and
broughtest forth water
for them out of the rock for their
thirst, and promisedst
them that they should go in to possess
the land which thou
hadst sworn to give them.
16:009:016 But they and our
fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their
necks, and hearkened
not to thy commandments,
16:009:017 And refused to obey,
neither were mindful of thy wonders that
thou didst among them;
but hardened their necks, and in their
rebellion appointed a
captain to return to their bondage: but
thou art a God ready to
pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great
kindness, and forsookest them not.
16:009:018 Yea, when they had made
them a molten calf, and said, This is
thy God that brought
thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought
great provocations;
16:009:019 Yet thou in thy
manifold mercies forsookest them not in the
wilderness: the pillar
of the cloud departed not from them by
day, to lead them in
the way; neither the pillar of fire by
night, to shew them
light, and the way wherein they should go.
16:009:020 Thou gavest also thy
good spirit to instruct them, and
withheldest not thy
manna from their mouth, and gavest them
water for their thirst.
16:009:021 Yea, forty years didst
thou sustain them in the wilderness, so
that they lacked
nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and
their feet swelled not.
16:009:022 Moreover thou gavest
them kingdoms and nations, and didst
divide them into
corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon,
and the land of the
king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king
of Bashan.
16:009:023 Their children also
multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven,
and broughtest them
into the land, concerning which thou hadst
promised to their
fathers, that they should go in to possess
it.
16:009:024 So the children went in
and possessed the land, and thou
subduedst before them
the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, and gavest
them into their hands, with their
kings, and the people
of the land, that they might do with
them as they would.
16:009:025 And they took strong
cities, and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all
goods, wells digged, vineyards, and
oliveyards, and fruit
trees in abundance: so they did eat, and
were filled, and became
fat, and delighted themselves in thy
great goodness.
16:009:026 Nevertheless they were
disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law behind
their backs, and slew thy prophets
which testified against
them to turn them to thee, and they
wrought great
provocations.
16:009:027 Therefore thou
deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed
them: and in the time of their trouble,
when they cried unto
thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and
according to thy
manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours,
who saved them out of
the hand of their enemies.
16:009:028 But after they had
rest, they did evil again before thee:
therefore leftest thou
them in the land of their enemies, so
that they had the
dominion over them: yet when they returned,
and cried unto thee,
thou heardest them from heaven; and many
times didst thou
deliver them according to thy mercies;
16:009:029 And testifiedst against
them, that thou mightest bring them
again unto thy law: yet
they dealt proudly, and hearkened not
unto thy commandments,
but sinned against thy judgments,
(which if a man do, he
shall live in them;) and withdrew the
shoulder, and hardened
their neck, and would not hear.
16:009:030 Yet many years didst
thou forbear them, and testifiedst
against them by thy
spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not
give ear: therefore
gavest thou them into the hand of the
people of the lands.
16:009:031 Nevertheless for thy
great mercies' sake thou didst not
utterly consume them,
nor forsake them; for thou art a
gracious and merciful
God.
16:009:032 Now therefore, our God,
the great, the mighty, and the
terrible God, who
keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the
trouble seem little
before thee, that hath come upon us, on
our kings, on our
princes, and on our priests, and on our
prophets, and on our
fathers, and on all thy people, since the
time of the kings of
Assyria unto this day.
16:009:033 Howbeit thou art just
in all that is brought upon us; for thou
hast done right, but we
have done wickedly:
16:009:034 Neither have our kings,
our princes, our priests, nor our
fathers, kept thy law,
nor hearkened unto thy commandments and
thy testimonies,
wherewith thou didst testify against them.
16:009:035 For they have not
served thee in their kingdom, and in thy
great goodness that
thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
land which thou gavest
before them, neither turned they from
their wicked works.
16:009:036 Behold, we are servants
this day, and for the land that thou
gavest unto our fathers
to eat the fruit thereof and the good
thereof, behold, we are
servants in it:
16:009:037 And it yieldeth much
increase unto the kings whom thou hast
set over us because of
our sins: also they have dominion over
our bodies, and over
our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are
in great distress.
16:009:038 And because of all this
we make a sure covenant, and write it;
and our princes,
Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
16:010:001 Now those that sealed
were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son
of Hachaliah, and
Zidkijah,
16:010:002 Seraiah, Azariah,
Jeremiah,
16:010:003 Pashur, Amariah,
Malchijah,
16:010:004 Hattush, Shebaniah,
Malluch,
16:010:005 Harim, Meremoth,
Obadiah,
16:010:006 Daniel, Ginnethon,
Baruch,
16:010:007 Meshullam, Abijah,
Mijamin,
16:010:008 Maaziah, Bilgai,
Shemaiah: these were the priests.
16:010:009 And the Levites: both
Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
sons of Henadad,
Kadmiel;
16:010:010 And their brethren,
Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah,
Hanan,
16:010:011 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
16:010:012 Zaccur, Sherebiah,
Shebaniah,
16:010:013 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
16:010:014 The chief of the
people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu,
Bani,
16:010:015 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16:010:016 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
16:010:017 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
16:010:018 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
16:010:019 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
16:010:020 Magpiash, Meshullam,
Hezir,
16:010:021 Meshezabeel, Zadok,
Jaddua,
16:010:022 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
16:010:023 Hoshea, Hananiah,
Hashub,
16:010:024 Hallohesh, Pileha,
Shobek,
16:010:025 Rehum, Hashabnah,
Maaseiah,
16:010:026 And Ahijah, Hanan,
Anan,
16:010:027 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
16:010:028 And the rest of the
people, the priests, the Levites, the
porters, the singers,
the Nethinims, and all they that had
separated themselves
from the people of the lands unto the law
of God, their wives,
their sons, and their daughters, every
one having knowledge,
and having understanding;
16:010:029 They clave to their
brethren, 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 the
LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his
statutes;
16:010:030 And that we would not
give our daughters unto the people of
the land, not take
their daughters for our sons:
16:010:031 And if the people of
the land bring ware or any victuals on
the sabbath day to
sell, that we would not buy it of them on
the sabbath, or on the
holy day: and that we would leave the
seventh year, and the
exaction of every debt.
16:010:032 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;
16:010:033 For the shewbread, and
for the continual meat offering, and
for the continual burnt
offering, of the sabbaths, of the new
moons, for the set
feasts, and for the holy things, and for
the sin offerings to
make an atonement for Israel, and for all
the work of the house
of our God.
16:010:034 And we cast the lots
among the priests, the Levites, and the
people, for the wood
offering, to bring it into the house of
our God, after the
houses of our fathers, at times appointed
year by year, to burn
upon the altar of the LORD our God, as
it is written in the
law:
16:010:035 And to bring the
firstfruits of our ground, and the
firstfruits of all
fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the
house of the LORD:
16:010:036 Also the firstborn of
our sons, and of our cattle, as it is
written in the law, and
the firstlings of our herds and of our
flocks, to bring to the
house of our God, unto the priests
that minister in the
house of our God:
16:010:037 And that we should
bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our
offerings, and the
fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and
of oil, unto the
priests, to the chambers of the house of our
God; and the tithes of
our ground unto the Levites, that the
same Levites might have
the tithes in all the cities of our
tillage.
16:010:038 And 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
unto the house of our God, to the
chambers, into the
treasure house.
16:010:039 For the children of
Israel and the children of Levi shall
bring the offering of
the corn, of the new wine, and the oil,
unto the chambers,
where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and
the priests that
minister, and the porters, and the singers:
and we will not forsake
the house of our God.
16:011:001 And the rulers of the
people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of
the people also cast
lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in
Jerusalem the holy
city, and nine parts to dwell in other
cities.
16:011:002 And the people blessed
all the men, that willingly offered
themselves to dwell at
Jerusalem.
16:011:003 Now these are the chief
of the province that dwelt in
Jerusalem: but in the
cities of Judah dwelt every one in his
possession in their
cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and
the Levites, and the
Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's
servants.
16:011:004 And at Jerusalem dwelt
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 Mahalaleel, of the children
of Perez;
16:011:005 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
Shiloni.
16:011:006 All the sons of Perez
that dwelt at Jerusalem were four
hundred threescore and
eight valiant men.
16:011:007 And 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
Jesaiah.
16:011:008 And after him Gabbai,
Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
16:011:009 And Joel the son of
Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the
son of Senuah was
second over the city.
16:011:010 Of the priests: Jedaiah
the son of Joiarib, Jachin.
16:011:011 Seraiah the son of
Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
Zadok, the son of
Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler
of the house of God.
16:011:012 And their brethren that
did the work of the house were eight
hundred twenty and two:
and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son
of Pelaliah, the son of
Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of
Pashur, the son of
Malchiah.
16:011:013 And his brethren, chief
of the fathers, two hundred forty and
two: and Amashai the
son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the
son of Meshillemoth,
the son of Immer,
16:011:014 And their brethren,
mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty
and eight: and their
overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of
the great men.
16:011:015 Also of the Levites:
Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of
Azrikam, the son of
Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
16:011:016 And Shabbethai and
Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had
the oversight of the
outward business of the house of God.
16:011:017 And Mattaniah the son
of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Asaph, was the
principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer:
and Bakbukiah the
second among his brethren, and Abda the son
of Shammua, the son of
Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
16:011:018 All the Levites in the
holy city were two hundred fourscore
and four.
16:011:019 Moreover the porters,
Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that
kept the gates, were an
hundred seventy and two.
16:011:020 And the residue of
Israel, of the priests, and the Levites,
were in all the cities
of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
16:011:021 But the Nethinims dwelt
in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over
the Nethinims.
16:011:022 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 Micha. Of the sons
of Asaph, the singers were over the
business of the house
of God.
16:011:023 For it was the king's
commandment concerning them, that a
certain portion should
be for the singers, due for every day.
16:011:024 And Pethahiah the son
of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah
the son of Judah, was
at the king's hand in all matters
concerning the people.
16:011:025 And for the villages,
with their fields, some of the children
of Judah dwelt at
Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof,
and at Dibon, and in
the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel,
and in the villages
thereof,
16:011:026 And at Jeshua, and at
Moladah, and at Bethphelet,
16:011:027 And at Hazarshual, and
at Beersheba, and in the villages
thereof,
16:011:028 And at Ziklag, and at
Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
16:011:029 And at Enrimmon, and at
Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
16:011:030 Zanoah, Adullam, and in
their villages, at Lachish, and the
fields thereof, at
Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And
they dwelt from
Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
16:011:031 The children also of
Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and
Aija, and Bethel, and
in their villages.
16:011:032 And at Anathoth, Nob,
Ananiah,
16:011:033 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
16:011:034 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
16:011:035 Lod, and Ono, the
valley of craftsmen.
16:011:036 And of the Levites were
divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.
16:012:001 Now these are the
priests and the Levites that went up with
Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah,
Jeremiah, Ezra,
16:012:002 Amariah, Malluch,
Hattush,
16:012:003 Shechaniah, Rehum,
Meremoth,
16:012:004 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
16:012:005 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
16:012:006 Shemaiah, and Joiarib,
Jedaiah,
16:012:007 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah,
Jedaiah. These were the chief of the
priests and of their
brethren in the days of Jeshua.
16:012:008 Moreover the Levites:
Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah,
Judah, and Mattaniah,
which was over the thanksgiving, he and
his brethren.
16:012:009 Also Bakbukiah and Unni,
their brethren, were over against
them in the watches.
16:012:010 And Jeshua begat
Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
Eliashib begat Joiada,
16:012:011 And Joiada begat
Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
16:012:012 And in the days of
Joiakim were priests, the chief of the
fathers: of Seraiah,
Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
16:012:013 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of
Amariah, Jehohanan;
16:012:014 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of
Shebaniah, Joseph;
16:012:015 Of Harim, Adna; of
Meraioth, Helkai;
16:012:016 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of
Ginnethon, Meshullam;
16:012:017 Of Abijah, Zichri; of
Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:
16:012:018 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of
Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
16:012:019 And of Joiarib,
Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
16:012:020 Of Sallai, Kallai; of
Amok, Eber;
16:012:021 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah;
of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
16:012:022 The Levites in the days
of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and
Jaddua, were recorded
chief of the fathers: also the priests,
to the reign of Darius
the Persian.
16:012:023 The sons of Levi, the
chief of the fathers, were written in
the book of the
chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the
son of Eliashib.
16:012:024 And the chief of the
Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua
the son of Kadmiel,
with their brethren over against them, to
praise and to give
thanks, according to the commandment of
David the man of God,
ward over against ward.
16:012:025 Mattaniah, and
Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub,
were porters keeping
the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
16:012:026 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.
16:012:027 And at the dedication
of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the
Levites out of all
their places, to bring them to Jerusalem,
to keep the dedication
with gladness, both with thanksgivings,
and with singing, with
cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
16:012:028 And the sons of the
singers gathered themselves together, both
out of the plain
country round about Jerusalem, and from the
villages of Netophathi;
16:012:029 Also from the house of
Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba
and Azmaveth: for the
singers had builded them villages round
about Jerusalem.
16:012:030 And the priests and the
Levites purified themselves, and
purified the people,
and the gates, and the wall.
16:012:031 Then I brought up the
princes of Judah upon the wall, and
appointed two great
companies of them that gave thanks,
whereof one went on the
right hand upon the wall toward the
dung gate:
16:012:032 And after them went
Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of
Judah,
16:012:033 And Azariah, Ezra, and
Meshullam,
16:012:034 Judah, and Benjamin,
and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
16:012:035 And certain of the
priests' sons with trumpets; namely,
Zechariah the son of
Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of
Mattaniah, the son of
Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of
Asaph:
16:012:036 And his brethren,
Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai,
Maai, Nethaneel, and
Judah, Hanani, with the musical
instruments of David
the man of God, and Ezra the scribe
before them.
16:012:037 And at the fountain
gate, which was over against them, they
went up by the stairs
of the city of David, at the going up of
the wall, above the
house of David, even unto the water gate
eastward.
16:012:038 And the other company
of them that gave thanks went over
against them, and I
after them, and the half of the people
upon the wall, from
beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto
the broad wall;
16:012:039 And from above the gate
of Ephraim, and above the old gate,
and above the fish
gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the
tower of Meah, even
unto the sheep gate: and they stood still
in the prison gate.
16:012:040 So stood the two
companies of them that gave thanks in the
house of God, and I,
and the half of the rulers with me:
16:012:041 And the priests;
Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
Elioenai, Zechariah,
and Hananiah, with trumpets;
16:012:042 And Maaseiah, and
Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and
Jehohanan, and
Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers
sang loud, with
Jezrahiah their overseer.
16:012:043 Also that day they
offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for
God had made them
rejoice with great joy: the wives also and
the children rejoiced:
so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard
even afar off.
16:012:044 And at that time were
some appointed over the chambers for the
treasures, for the
offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the
tithes, to gather into
them out of the fields of the cities
the portions of the law
for the priests and Levites: for Judah
rejoiced for the
priests and for the Levites that waited.
16:012:045 And both the singers
and the porters kept the ward of their
God, and the ward of
the purification, according to the
commandment of David,
and of Solomon his son.
16:012:046 For in the days of
David and Asaph of old there were chief of
the singers, and songs
of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
16:012:047 And all Israel in the
days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of
Nehemiah, gave the
portions of the singers and the porters,
every day his portion:
and they sanctified holy things unto
the Levites; and the
Levites sanctified them unto the children
of Aaron.
16:013:001 On that day they read
in the book of Moses in the audience of
the people; and therein
was found written, that the Ammonite
and the Moabite should
not come into the congregation of God
for ever;
16:013:002 Because they met not
the children of Israel with bread and
with water, but hired
Balaam against them, that he should
curse them: howbeit our
God turned the curse into a blessing.
16:013:003 Now it came to pass,
when they had heard the law, that they
separated from Israel
all the mixed multitude.
16:013:004 And before this,
Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of
the chamber of the
house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
16:013:005 And he had prepared for
him a great chamber, where aforetime
they laid the meat
offerings, the frankincense, and the
vessels, and the tithes
of the corn, the new wine, and the
oil, which was
commanded to be given to the Levites, and the
singers, and the
porters; and the offerings of the priests.
16:013:006 But in all this time
was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two
and thirtieth year of
Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto
the king, and after
certain days obtained I leave of the king:
16:013:007 And I came to
Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that
Eliashib did for Tobiah,
in preparing him a chamber in the
courts of the house of
God.
16:013:008 And it grieved me sore:
therefore I cast forth all the
household stuff to
Tobiah out of the chamber.
16:013:009 Then I commanded, and
they cleansed the chambers: and thither
brought I again the
vessels of the house of God, with the meat
offering and the
frankincense.
16:013:010 And I perceived that
the portions of the Levites had not been
given them: for the
Levites and the singers, that did the
work, were fled every
one to his field.
16:013:011 Then contended I with
the rulers, and said, Why is the house
of God forsaken? And I
gathered them together, and set them in
their place.
16:013:012 Then brought all Judah
the tithe of the corn and the new wine
and the oil unto the
treasuries.
16:013:013 And I made treasurers
over the treasuries, Shelemiah the
priest, and Zadok the
scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and
next to them was Hanan
the son of Zaccur, the son of
Mattaniah: for they
were counted faithful, and their office
was to distribute unto
their brethren.
16:013:014 Remember me, O my God,
concerning this, and wipe not out my
good deeds that I have
done for the house of my God, and for
the offices thereof.
16:013:015 In those days saw I in
Judah some treading wine presses on the
sabbath, and bringing
in sheaves, and lading asses; 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
wherein they sold victuals.
16:013:016 There dwelt men of Tyre
also therein, which brought fish, and
all manner of ware, and
sold on the sabbath unto the children
of Judah, and in
Jerusalem.
16:013:017 Then I contended with
the nobles of Judah, and said unto them,
What evil thing is this
that ye do, and profane the sabbath
day?
16:013:018 Did not your fathers
thus, and did not our God bring all this
evil upon us, and upon
this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon
Israel by profaning the
sabbath.
16:013:019 And it came to pass,
that when the gates of Jerusalem began to
be dark before the
sabbath, I commanded that the gates should
be shut, and charged
that they should not be opened till after
the sabbath: and some
of my servants set I at the gates, that
there should no burden
be brought in on the sabbath day.
16:013:020 So the merchants and
sellers of all kind of ware lodged
without Jerusalem once
or twice.
16:013:021 Then I testified
against them, and said unto them, Why lodge
ye about the wall? if
ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.
From that time forth
came they no more on the sabbath.
16:013:022 And I commanded the
Levites that they should cleanse
themselves, and that
they should come and keep the gates, to
sanctify the sabbath
day. Remember me, O my God, concerning
this also, and spare me
according to the greatness of thy
mercy.
16:013:023 In those days also saw
I Jews that had married wives of
Ashdod, of Ammon, and
of Moab:
16:013:024 And their children
spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and
could not speak in the
Jews' language, but according to the
language of each
people.
16:013:025 And I contended with
them, and cursed them, and smote certain
of them, and plucked
off their hair, and made them swear by
God, saying, Ye shall
not give your daughters unto their sons,
nor take their
daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
16:013:026 Did not Solomon king of
Israel sin by these things? yet among
many nations was there
no king like him, who was beloved of
his God, and God made
him king over all Israel: nevertheless
even him did outlandish
women cause to sin.
16:013:027 Shall we then hearken
unto you to do all this great evil, to
transgress against our
God in marrying strange wives?
16:013:028 And 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.
16:013:029 Remember them, O my
God, because they have defiled the
priesthood, and the
covenant of the priesthood, and of the
Levites.
16:013:030 Thus cleansed I them
from all strangers, and appointed the
wards of the priests
and the Levites, every one in his
business;
16:013:031 And for the wood
offering, at times appointed, and for the
firstfruits. Remember
me, O my God, for good.
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