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7 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I placed my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the castle in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and more God-fearing than many. 3 And I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while watchmen are still on guard, let them shut the doors and bar them. Also appoint watches consisting of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch and each opposite his own house.
4 Now the city was wide and large; but there were few people in it, and the households were not large. 5 Therefore my God put it into my mind to gather together the nobles and the rulers and the people.
6 These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city, 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah.
The Number of Men of the People of Israel
8 The children of Parosha, two thousand a hundred and seventy-two. 9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two. 10 The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two. 11 The children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. 13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five. 14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty. 15 The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight. 16 The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight. 17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two. 18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven. 19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven. 20 The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five. 21 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. The children of Azzur, four hundred and thirty-two. The children of Hananiah, a hundred and one. 22 The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight. 23 The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four. 24 The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve. 33 The children of Nebo, fifty-two. 34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. 35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. 38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
25 The men of Gibeon, ninety-five. 26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight. 27 The men of Anathon, a hundred and twenty-eight. 28 The men of Beth-azmaveth. forty-two. 29 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three. The men of Adasa and Modin, four hundred and twenty-two. 30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one. 31 The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two. 32 The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three. 36 The men of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five. The men of Keilah and Azekah, sixty-seven. 37 The men of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.
39 The priests: The chilren of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three. 40 The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two. 41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven. 42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
43 The Levites: The children of Jershua, namely of Kadmiel, of Benui, of Hodevah, seventy-four. 44 The singers: The children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight. 45 The porters: The children of Shallum, the children of After, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.
46 The temple servants: The children of Ziha, the children of Hasupa, the children of Tabbaoth, 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, 48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Akkub, the children of Salmai, 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, 50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, 52 the children of Besai, the children of Asnah, the children of Menunim, the children of Nephsheism. 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, 54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, 56 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
57 The children of Solomon’s servant: The children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, 58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children the Giddel, 59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hatiil, the children of Pochereth-hazzabaim, the children of Amon. 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
61 And these were they who went up from Tel-melah and Tel-harsha: Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not slow their fathers’ houses not their descent, whether they were of Israel. 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two. 63 And of the priest: 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 by their name. 64 These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore they were excluded from the priesthood, as unclean. 65 And the governor commanded them not to eat of the most holy things, until a priest stood up with the Urim and Thummim.
66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, 67 besides their male and female slaves, of whom there seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and forty-five singing men and singing women. 68 Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules, two hundred and forty-five; 69 their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty. 70 And some from among the heads of fathers’ houses gave the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred minas of silver and thirty priests’ garments. 71 And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury for the work, twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand, two hundred minas of silver. 72 And 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.
73 So the priests and the Levites and the porters and the singers and the common people, and the temple servants, and all Israel dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month drew near, the Israelites were settled in their cities,