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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
first
year
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
in
order
that
the
word
of
the
Lord given
by
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
might
come
true,
the
spirit
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
was
moved
by
the
Lord,
so
that
he
made
a
public statement
through
all
his
kingdom,
and
put
it
in
writing,
saying,
\VS{2}These
are
the words
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia:
The
Lord
God
of
heaven
has
given
me
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth;
and
he
has
made
me responsible
for
building
a
house
for
him
in
Jerusalem,
which
is
in
Judah.
\VS{3}Whoever
there
is
among
you
of
his
people,
may
his
God
be
with
him,
and
let
him
go
up
to
Jerusalem,
which
is
in
Judah,
and
take
in hand
the
building
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel;
he
is
the
God
who
is
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
whoever
there
may
be
of
the
rest
of Israel,
living
in
any
place, let
the
men
of
that
place
give
him help
with
offerings
of
silver
and
gold
and
goods
and
beasts,
in addition
to
the
offering
freely given
for
the
house
of
God
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}Then
the
heads
of
families
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
with
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
got ready,
even
all
those
whose
spirits
were
moved
by
God
to
go
up
and
take
in hand
the
building
of
the Lord's
house
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}And
all
their neighbours
gave
them help
with
offerings
of
vessels
of
silver
and
gold
and
goods
and
beasts
and
things
of great value,
in
addition
to
what
was freely
offered.
\VS{7}And
Cyrus
the
king
got
out
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
which
Nebuchadnezzar
had
taken
from
Jerusalem
and
put
in
the
house
of
his
gods;
\VS{8}Even these
Cyrus made
Mithredath,
the keeper
of
his wealth,
get
out,
and
he
gave
them,
after numbering
them,
to
Sheshbazzar,
the ruler
of
Judah.
\VS{9}And
this
is
the
number
of
them: there
were
thirty
gold plates,
a
thousand
silver plates,
twenty-nine knives,
\VS{10}Thirty
gold basins,
four
hundred
and
ten
silver basins,
and
a
thousand
other
vessels.
\VS{11}There
were
five
thousand,
four
hundred
gold
and
silver
vessels.
All
these
were
taken
back
by
Sheshbazzar,
when
those
who
had
been
taken prisoner
went
up
from
Babylon
to
Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
people
of
the divisions
of
the
kingdom,
among
those
who
had
been
made
prisoners
by
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
taken
away
to
Babylon,
who
went
back
to
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
everyone
to
his
town;
\VS{2}Who
went
with
Zerubbabel,
Jeshua,
Nehemiah,
Seraiah,
Reelaiah,
Mordecai,
Bilshan,
Mispar,
Bigvai,
Rehum,
Baanah,
The
number
of
the
men
of
the
people
of
Israel:
\VS{3}The
children
of
Parosh,
two
thousand,
one
hundred
and seventy-two.
\VS{4}The
children
of
Shephatiah,
three
hundred
and seventy-two.
\VS{5}The
children
of
Arah,
seven
hundred
and
seventy-five.
\VS{6}The
children
of
Pahath-moab,
of
the
children
of
Jeshua
and
Joab,
two
thousand,
eight
hundred
and
twelve.
\VS{7}The
children
of
Elam,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and fifty-four.
\VS{8}The
children
of
Zattu,
nine
hundred
and
forty-five.
\VS{9}The
children
of
Zaccai,
seven
hundred
and
sixty.
\VS{10}The
children
of
Bani,
six
hundred
and
forty-two.
\VS{11}The
children
of
Bebai,
six
hundred
and twenty-three.
\VS{12}The
children
of
Azgad,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and
twenty-two.
\VS{13}The
children
of
Adonikam,
six
hundred
and sixty-six.
\VS{14}The
children
of
Bigvai, two
thousand
and fifty-six.
\VS{15}The
children
of
Adin,
four
hundred
and fifty-four.
\VS{16}The
children
of
Ater,
of
Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
\VS{17}The
children
of
Bezai,
three
hundred
and twenty-three.
\VS{18}The
children
of
Jorah,
a
hundred
and
twelve.
\VS{19}The
children
of
Hashum,
two
hundred
and twenty-three.
\VS{20}The
children
of
Gibbar, ninety-five.
\VS{21}The
children
of Beth-lehem,
a
hundred
and twenty-three.
\VS{22}The
men
of
Netophah, fifty-six.
\VS{23}The
men
of
Anathoth,
a
hundred
and
twenty-eight.
\VS{24}The
children
of
Azmaveth,
forty-two.
\VS{25}The
children
of
Kiriath-arim, Chephirah,
and
Beeroth,
seven
hundred
and forty-three.
\VS{26}The
children
of
Ramah
and
Geba,
six
hundred
and twenty-one.
\VS{27}The
men
of
Michmas,
a
hundred
and
twenty-two.
\VS{28}The
men
of Beth-el
and
Ai,
two
hundred
and twenty-three.
\VS{29}The
children
of
Nebo,
fifty-two.
\VS{30}The
children
of
Magbish,
a
hundred
and fifty-six.
\VS{31}The
children
of
the
other
Elam,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and fifty-four.
\VS{32}The
children
of
Harim,
three
hundred
and
twenty.
\VS{33}The
children
of Lod,
Hadid,
and
Ono,
seven
hundred
and
twenty-five.
\VS{34}The
children
of
Jericho,
three
hundred
and
forty-five.
\VS{35}The
children
of
Senaah,
three
thousand,
six
hundred
and
thirty.
\VS{36}The
priests:
the
children
of
Jedaiah,
of
the
house
of
Jeshua,
nine
hundred
and seventy-three.
\VS{37}The
children
of
Immer,
a
thousand
and
fifty-two.
\VS{38}The
children
of
Pashhur,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and forty-seven.
\VS{39}The
children
of
Harim,
a
thousand
and
seventeen.
\VS{40}The
Levites:
the
children
of
Jeshua
and
Kadmiel,
of
the
children
of
Hodaviah, seventy-four.
\VS{41}The music-makers:
the
children
of
Asaph,
a
hundred
and
twenty-eight
\VS{42}The
children
of
the door-keepers:
the
children
of
Shallum,
the
children
of
Ater,
the
children
of
Talmon,
the
children
of
Akkub,
the
children
of
Hatita,
the
children
of
Shobai,
a
hundred
and thirty-nine.
\VS{43}The Nethinim:
the
children
of
Ziha,
the
children
of
Hasupha,
the
children
of
Tabbaoth,
\VS{44}The
children
of
Keros,
the
children
of
Siaha,
the
children
of
Padon,
\VS{45}The
children
of
Lebanah,
the
children
of
Hagabah,
the
children
of
Akkub,
\VS{46}The
children
of
Hagab,
the
children
of Shamlai,
the
children
of
Hanan,
\VS{47}The
children
of
Giddel,
the
children
of
Gahar,
the
children
of
Reaiah,
\VS{48}The
children
of
Rezin,
the
children
of
Nekoda,
the
children
of
Gazzam,
\VS{49}The
children
of
Uzza,
the
children
of
Paseah,
the
children
of
Besai,
\VS{50}The
children
of
Asnah,
the
children
of
Meunim,
the
children
of
Nephisim,
\VS{51}The
children
of
Bakbuk,
the
children
of
Hakupha,
the
children
of Harhur,
\VS{52}The
children
of
Bazluth,
the
children
of
Mehida,
the
children
of
Harsha,
\VS{53}The
children
of
Barkos,
the
children
of
Sisera,
the
children
of
Temah,
\VS{54}The
children
of
Neziah,
the
children
of
Hatipha.
\VS{55}The
children
of Solomon's
servants:
the
children
of
Sotai,
the
children
of
Hassophereth,
the
children
of
Peruda,
\VS{56}The
children
of
Jaalah,
the
children
of
Darkon,
the
children
of
Giddel,
\VS{57}The
children
of
Shephatiah,
the
children
of
Hattil,
the
children
of
Pochereth-hazzebaim,
the
children
of Ami.
\VS{58}All
the Nethinim,
and
the
children
of Solomon's
servants,
were
three
hundred
and ninety-two.
\VS{59}And
these
were
the
people
who
went
up
from
Tel-melah,
Tel-harsha,
Cherub,
Addan,
and
Immer.
But
having
no knowledge
of
their fathers'
families
or
offspring,
it
was
not certain
that
they
were
Israelites;
\VS{60}The
children
of
Delaiah,
the
children
of
Tobiah,
the
children
of
Nekoda,
six
hundred
and
fifty-two.
\VS{61}And
of
the
children
of
the
priests:
the
children
of
Habaiah,
the
children
of
Hakkoz,
the
children
of
Barzillai,
who
was
married
to
one
of
the
daughters
of
Barzillai
the
Gileadite,
and
took
their
name.
\VS{62}They
made
search
for
their record
among
the lists
of families,
but
their names
were nowhere
to
be seen;
so
they
were
looked
on
as
unclean
and
no
longer
priests.
\VS{63}And
the Tirshatha
said
that
they
were
not
to
have
the
most
holy
things
for
their
food,
till
a
priest
came
to
give decision
by
Urim
and
Thummim.
\VS{64}The number
of
all
the
people
together
was forty-two
thousand,
three
hundred
and
sixty,
\VS{65}As well
as their men-servants
and their women-servants,
of
whom there
were
seven
thousand,
three
hundred
and thirty-seven:
and
they
had
two
hundred
men
and women
to make music.
\VS{66}They had
seven
hundred
and thirty-six
horses,
two
hundred
and
forty-five transport beasts,
\VS{67}Four
hundred
and thirty-five
camels,
six
thousand,
seven
hundred
and
twenty asses.
\VS{68}And some
of
the
heads
of
families,
when
they
came
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
which
is
in
Jerusalem,
gave freely
of
their wealth
for
the building
up
of
the
house
of
God
in
its
place:
\VS{69}Every
one,
as
he
was able,
gave
for
the
work sixty-one
thousand darics
of
gold,
five
thousand pounds
of
silver
and
a
hundred priests'
robes.
\VS{70}So
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
the
people
and
the music-makers
and
the door-keepers
and
the Nethinim, took
up
their
places
in
their
towns; even
all
Israel
in
their
towns.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
the
seventh
month
came,
and
the
children
of
Israel
were
in
the
towns,
the
people
came
together
like
one
man
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Then
Jeshua,
the
son
of Jozadak,
and
his
brothers
the
priests,
and
Zerubbabel,
the
son
of
Shealtiel,
with
his
brothers,
got
up
and
made
the
altar
of
the
God
of
Israel
for burned
offerings
as
is
recorded
in
the
law
of
Moses,
the
man
of
God.
\VS{3}They
put
the
altar
on
its base;
for
fear
was
on
them
because
of
the
people
of
the
countries:
and
they
made burned
offerings
on
it
to
the
Lord,
even burned
offerings
morning
and
evening.
\VS{4}And
they
kept
the
feast
of tents,
as
it
is
recorded,
making
the regular burned
offerings
every
day
by
number,
as
it
is ordered;
for
every
day
what
was needed.
\VS{5}And
after
that,
the
regular burned
offering
and
the
offerings
for
the
new
moons
and
all
the
fixed
feasts
of
the
Lord
which
had
been
made
holy,
and
the
offering
of
everyone
who
freely gave
his
offering
to
the
Lord.
\VS{6}From
the
first
day
of
the
seventh
month
they
made
a start
with
the burned
offerings,
but
the base
of
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
had still
not
been
put
in
its place.
\VS{7}And
they
gave
money
to
the stoneworkers
and woodworkers;
and meat
and
drink
and
oil
to
the people
of Zidon
and
of
Tyre,
for
the transport
of cedar-trees
from
Lebanon
to
the
sea,
to
Joppa,
as
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
had
given
them
authority
to
do.
\VS{8}Now
in
the
second
year
of
their
coming
into
the
house
of
God
in
Jerusalem,
in
the
second
month,
the
work
was taken
in hand
by
Zerubbabel,
the
son
of
Shealtiel,
and
Jeshua,
the
son
of Jozadak,
and
the
rest
of
their
brothers
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
all
those
who
had
come
from
the land
where
they
were
prisoners
to
Jerusalem:
and
they
made
the
Levites,
of
twenty
years
old
and
over, responsible
for overseeing
the
work
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{9}Then
Jeshua
with
his
sons
and
his
brothers,
Kadmiel
with
his
sons,
the
sons
of Hodaviah,
together
took
up
the
work
of overseeing
the
workmen
in
the
house
of
God:
the
sons
of
Henadad
with
their
sons
and
their
brothers,
the
Levites.
\VS{10}And
when
the
builders
put
in
position
the base
of
the
Temple
of
the
Lord,
the
priests,
dressed
in
their robes,
took
their places
with horns,
and
the
Levites,
the
sons
of
Asaph,
with brass instruments,
to give
praise
to
the
Lord
in
the
way ordered
by
David,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{11}And
they
gave
praise
to
the
Lord, answering
one another
in
their songs
and saying,
For
he
is
good,
for
his
mercy
to
Israel
is
eternal.
And
all
the
people
gave
a
great
cry
of
joy,
when
they
gave
praise
to
the
Lord,
because
the base
of
the Lord's
house
was put
in
place.
\VS{12}But
a number
of
the
priests
and
Levites
and
the
heads
of
families,
old
men
who
had
seen
the
first
house,
when
the base
of
this
house
was put
down
before
their
eyes,
were overcome
with
weeping;
and
a number
were
crying
out
with
joy:
\VS{13}So
that
in
the ears
of
the
people
the
cry
of
joy
was mixed
with
the
sound
of
weeping;
for
the
cries
of
the
people
were
loud
and came
to
the ears
of
those
who
were
a
long
way
off.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now news came
to
the haters
of
Judah
and
Benjamin
that
the
people
who
had come back
were
building
a
Temple
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel;
\VS{2}Then
they
came
to
Zerubbabel
and
to
the
heads
of
families,
and
said
to
them,
Let
us
take part
in
the
building
with
you;
for
we
are servants
of
your
God,
even
as
you
are;
and
we
have
been
making
offerings
to
him
from
the
days
of Esar-haddon,
king
of
Assyria,
who
put
us
here.
\VS{3}But
Zerubbabel
and
Jeshua
and
the
rest
of
the
heads
of
families
in
Israel
said
to
them,
You
have
no part
with
us
in
the
building
of
a
house
for
our
God;
we
ourselves
will
do
the work
together
for
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
as
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
has
given
us
orders.
\VS{4}Then
the
people
of
the
land
made
the
hands
of
the
people
of
Judah
feeble, troubling
them
with fear
in
their
building;
\VS{5}And
they
gave payment
to
men
who
made
designs
against
them
and kept
them
from effecting
their
purpose,
all
through
the
time
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
till
Darius became
king.
\VS{6}And
in
the
time
of
Ahasuerus,
when
he
first became
king,
they put
on
record
a statement
against
the
people
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{7}And
in
the
time
of
Artaxerxes,
Bishlam,
Mithredath,
Tabeel,
and
the
rest
of
his friends, sent
a
letter
to
Artaxerxes,
king
of
Persia,
writing
it
in
the Aramaean
writing
and language.
\VS{8}Rehum,
the chief ruler,
and
Shimshai
the
scribe, sent
a
letter
against
Jerusalem,
to
Artaxerxes
the
king;
\VS{9}The letter
was sent by
Rehum,
the chief ruler,
and
Shimshai
the
scribe
and their friends;
the Dinaites
and
the Apharsathchites,
the Tarpelites,
the Apharsites,
the Archevites,
the
Babylonians,
the Shushanchites,
the Dehaites,
the
Elamites,
\VS{10}And
the
rest
of
the
nations
which
the
great
and noble
Osnappar
took over
and put
in
Samaria
and
the
rest
of
the country over
the
river:
\VS{11}This
is
a
copy
of
the
letter
which
they
sent
to
Artaxerxes
the
king:
Your
servants living across
the
river
send
these words:
\VS{12}We give news
to
the
king
that
the
Jews
who
came
from
you
have
come
to us at
Jerusalem;
they
are
building
up again
that uncontrolled
and
evil town;
the
walls
are complete
and
they
are joining
up
the bases.
\VS{13}The
king may
be certain
that
when
the
building
of
this town
and
its
walls
is complete,
they
will
give
no
tax
or payment
in goods
or forced payments,
and
in
the end
it
will
be
a cause
of
loss
to
the
kings.
\VS{14}Now
because
we
are responsible
to
the
king,
and
it
is
not right
for us
to
see
the king's honour damaged,
we
have
sent
to give
the
king word
of
these
things,
\VS{15}So
that
search may
be
made
in
the
book
of
the records
of
your
fathers:
and
you
will see
in
the
book
of
the records
that
this town
has been uncontrolled,
and
a cause
of trouble
to
kings
and countries,
and
that
there
were outbursts
against authority
there
in
the
past:
for
which reason
the town
was
made
waste.
\VS{16}We give
you word,
that
if
the
building
of
this town
and
its
walls
is
made complete,
there
will be an end
of your power
in
the country across
the
river.
\VS{17}Then
the
king
sent
an
answer
to
Rehum,
the chief ruler,
and
Shimshai
the
scribe,
and their friends living
in
Samaria,
and
to
the
rest
of
those across
the
river, saying,
Peace
to
you:
\VS{18}And now
the sense
of
the letter
which
you
sent
to us
has been
made clear
to
me,
\VS{19}And
I
gave
orders
for
a
search
to
be
made,
and
it
is certain
that
in
the
past
this town
has
made trouble
for
kings,
and
that outbursts
against authority
have taken place
there.
\VS{20}Further, there
have been great
kings
in
Jerusalem, ruling
over
all
the country across
the
river,
to whom they
gave
taxes
and payments
in goods
and forced payments.
\VS{21}Give an order
now,
that
these
men are
to do
nothing
more,
and
that
the
building
of
the town
is
to
be
stopped, till
I
give an order.
\VS{22}Be certain
to
do
this
with all care:
do not let trouble
be increased
to
the king's
damage.
\VS{23}Then,
after reading
the king's letter,
Rehum
and
Shimshai
the
scribe
and their friends
went quickly
to
Jerusalem,
to
the
Jews,
and
had
them
stopped
by
force.
\VS{24}So
the
work
of
the
house
of
God
at
Jerusalem came
to an end;
so it
was
stopped, till
the
second
year
of
the rule
of
Darius,
king
of
Persia.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the prophets
Haggai
and
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Iddo,
were preaching
to
the
Jews
in
Judah
and
Jerusalem
in
the
name
of
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{2}Then
Zerubbabel,
the
son
of
Shealtiel,
and
Jeshua,
the
son
of Jozadak, got up
and
made
a start
at
building
the
house
of
God
at
Jerusalem:
and
the
prophets
of
God
were
with them, helping them.
\VS{3}At
the same
time,
Tattenai, ruler
of
the land across
the
river,
and
Shethar-bozenai,
and their men,
came
to
them
and
said,
Who
gave
you
orders
to go
on
building
this
house
and
this wall?
\VS{4}Then
they
said
these words
to
them:
What
are
the
names
of
the
men
who
are at work on
this
building?
\VS{5}But
the eye
of their
God
was
on
the chiefs
of
the
Jews,
and
they did
not make
them
give up working till
the question
had been put
before
Darius
and an answer
had come by letter
about
it.
\VS{6}This
is
a
copy
of
the
letter
which
Tattenai,
the ruler
of
the land across
the
river,
and
Shethar-bozenai
and
his friends
the Apharsachites, living across
the
river,
sent
to
Darius
the
king:
\VS{7}They
sent him
a letter saying,
To
Darius
the
king,
all
peace:
\VS{8}This
is
to
give
the
king word
that
we
went into
the land
of
Judah,
to
the
house
of
the
great
God,
which
is
made
of
great
stones,
and
has
its
walls supported
with
wood,
and
the
work
is
going on
with industry,
and
they
are
doing it well.
\VS{9}Then
we
said
to
the men responsible,
who
gave you authority
for
the
building
of
this
house
and
these walls?
\VS{10}And
we
made request
for their
names,
so
that
we might send
you word,
and give
you
the
names
of
the
men at
the
head
of them.
\VS{11}And
they made
answer
to
us,
saying,
We
are
the
servants
of
the
God
of
heaven
and
earth,
and
we
are
building
the
house
which
was put up
in times long past
and
was designed
and made complete by
a
great
king
of
Israel.
\VS{12}But
when
the
God
of
heaven
was moved
to
wrath
by our
fathers,
he
gave
them up into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
the Chaldaean,
who sent destruction on
this
house
and took
the
people away into
Babylon.
\VS{13}But
in
the
first
year
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Babylon,
Cyrus
the
king
gave an order
for
the
building
of
this
house
of
God;
\VS{14}And
the
gold
and
silver
vessels
of
the
house
of
God,
which
Nebuchadnezzar
took
from
the
Temple
which
was
in
Jerusalem,
and put into
the
house
of
his
god
in
Babylon,
these
Cyrus
the
king
took
from
the
house
of
his
god
in
Babylon,
and
gave
to one
named
Sheshbazzar,
whom
he
had
made ruler;
\VS{15}And
he
said
to him,
Go,
take
these
vessels,
and
put
them
in
the
Temple
in
Jerusalem,
and let
the
house
of
God
be
put
up again
in its
place.
\VS{16}Then
this same
Sheshbazzar
came
and
put
the
house
of
God
in
Jerusalem
on
its bases:
and
from
that
time till
now
the
building
has been going
on,
but it
is still
not complete.
\VS{17}So
now,
if
it seems good
to
the
king,
let
search
be
made
in
the king's store-house
at
Babylon,
to see
if
it
is true
that
an order
was given
by
Cyrus
the
king
for
the
building
of
this
house
of
God
at
Jerusalem,
and
let
the
king
send us word
of
his pleasure
in connection
with
this business.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Darius
the
king
gave an order
and
a
search
was
made
in
the
house
of
the records,
where
the things
of value
were
stored up
in
Babylon.
\VS{2}And at Achmetha,
in
the great house
of
the king
in
the land
of
Media,
they came across
a roll,
in
which this statement
was put on record:
\VS{3}In
the
first
year
of
Cyrus
the
king,
Cyrus
the
king
made an order:
In connection
with
the
house
of
God
at
Jerusalem, let
the
house
be put up,
the
place
where
they
make offerings,
and let
the earth
for
the bases
be put
in
place; let it
be
sixty
cubits high
and
sixty
cubits
wide;
\VS{4}With
three lines
of great
stones
and one line
of new
wood supports;
and let
the necessary money
be
given out
of
the king's store-house;
\VS{5}And
let
the
gold
and
silver
vessels
from
the
house
of
God,
which
Nebuchadnezzar
took
from
the
Temple
at
Jerusalem
to
Babylon,
be given back
and
taken again
to
the
Temple
at
Jerusalem, every one
in
its
place,
and
put them
in
the
house
of
God.
\VS{6}So
now,
Tattenai, ruler
of
the land across
the
river,
and
Shethar-bozenai
and your people
the Apharsachites across
the
river,
keep
far
from
that
place:
\VS{7}Let
the
work
of
this
house
of
God go
on; let
the ruler
of
the
Jews
and their responsible men put up
this
house
of
God
in its
place.
\VS{8}Further,
I
give
orders
as
to
what
you
are
to
do
for
the responsible
men
of
the
Jews
in connection
with
the
building
of
this
house
of
God:
that
from
the king's wealth,
that
is,
from
the
taxes got together
in
the land over
the
river,
the money needed
is
to
be
given
to
these
men readily,
so
that their work may
not
be
stopped.
\VS{9}And
whatever
they
have
need
of,
young oxen
and sheep
and
lambs,
for burned offerings
to
the
God
of
heaven, grain,
salt,
wine,
and
oil,
whatever
the
priests
in
Jerusalem say
is necessary,
is
to
be
given
to them
day
by
day regularly:
\VS{10}So
that
they
may make offerings
of
a sweet smell
to
the
God
of
heaven,
with prayers
for
the
life
of
the
king
and
of
his
sons.
\VS{11}And
I have given
orders
that if
anyone makes
any
change
in
this word,
one
of
the supports
is
to be pulled
out
of
his
house,
and
he
is
to be lifted up
and fixed
to
it;
and
his
house
is
to be
made waste
for
this;
\VS{12}And may
the
God
who
has
made it
a resting-place
for
his
name
send destruction on
all
kings
and
peoples
whose
hands
are outstretched
to
make
any
change
in
this
or
to
do damage
to
this
house
of
God
at
Jerusalem.
I,
Darius,
have given
this order, let it
be
done
with
all
care.
\VS{13}Then
Tattenai,
the ruler across
the
river,
and
Shethar-bozenai
and their people,
because
of
the order given by
King
Darius, did
as
he
had said
with
all
care.
\VS{14}And
the responsible men
of
the
Jews went on
with their
building,
and did well, helped
by
the teaching
of
Haggai
the
prophet
and
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Iddo. They went on
building till it
was complete,
in keeping
with
the word
of
the
God
of
Israel,
and
the
orders given
by
Cyrus,
and
Darius,
and
Artaxerxes,
king
of
Persia.
\VS{15}And
the building
of
this
house
was complete
on
the
third
day
of
the
month
Adar,
in
the
sixth
year
of
the rule
of
Darius
the
king.
\VS{16}And
the
children
of
Israel,
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
the
rest
of those who had come back, kept
the feast
of
the opening
of
this
house
of
God
with
joy.
\VS{17}And they gave as offerings
at
the opening
of
this
house
of
God a
hundred oxen, two
hundred sheep,
four
hundred
lambs;
and
for a sin-offering
for
all
Israel,
twelve he-goats, being
the
number
of
the
tribes
of
Israel.
\VS{18}And
they put
the
priests
in their
divisions
and
the
Levites
in their order,
for
the worship
of
God
at
Jerusalem;
as
it
is recorded
in
the
book
of
Moses.
\VS{19}And
the
children
of Israel
who
had come back
kept
the
Passover
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
first
month.
\VS{20}For
the
priests
and
the
Levites
had
made
themselves
clean
together;
they
were
all
clean:
and
they put
the
Passover lamb
to death
for
all
those
who
had come back,
and
for
their
brothers
the
priests
and
for
themselves.
\VS{21}And
the
children
of
Israel,
who
had
come
back,
and
all
those
who
were
joined
to
them,
after separating themselves
from
the evil ways
of
the
people
of
the
land
to
become
the servants
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
took
food together,
\VS{22}And
kept
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
for
seven
days
with
joy:
for
the
Lord
had
made
them
full
of
joy,
by
turning
the
heart
of
the
king
of
Assyria
to
them
to
give
them help
in
the
work
of
the
house
of
God,
the
God
of
Israel.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
these
things,
when
Artaxerxes
was
king
of
Persia,
Ezra,
the
son
of
Seraiah,
the
son
of
Azariah,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
\VS{2}The
son
of
Shallum,
the
son
of
Zadok,
the
son
of
Ahitub,
\VS{3}The
son
of
Amariah,
the
son
of
Azariah,
the
son
of
Meraioth,
\VS{4}The
son
of
Zerahiah,
the
son
of
Uzzi,
the
son
of
Bukki,
\VS{5}The
son
of
Abishua,
the
son
of
Phinehas,
the
son
of
Eleazar,
the
son
of
Aaron
the
chief
priest:
\VS{6}This
Ezra
went
up
from
Babylon;
and
he
was
a
scribe, expert
in
the
law
of
Moses
which
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
had
given:
and
the
king, moved
by
the
Lord
his
God,
gave
him
whatever
he
made
request
for.
\VS{7}And
some
of
the
children
of
Israel
went
up,
with
some
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
the music-makers
and
the door-keepers
and
the Nethinim,
to
Jerusalem,
in
the
seventh
year
of
Artaxerxes
the
king.
\VS{8}And
he
came
to
Jerusalem
in
the
fifth
month,
in
the
seventh
year
of
the king's
rule.
\VS{9}For, starting
his
journey
from
Babylon
on
the
first
day
of
the
first
month,
he
came
to
Jerusalem
on
the
first
day
of
the
fifth
month,
by
the
good help
of
his
God.
\VS{10}For
Ezra
had given
his
mind
to learning
the
law
of
the
Lord
and
doing
it,
and
to
teaching
his
rules
and
decisions
in
Israel.
\VS{11}Now
this
is
a
copy
of
the
letter
which
King
Artaxerxes
gave
to
Ezra,
the
priest
and
the
scribe,
who
put
into writing
the
words
of
the
orders
of
the
Lord,
and
of
his
rules
for
Israel:
\VS{12}Artaxerxes,
king
of
kings,
to
Ezra
the
priest,
scribe
of
the
law
of
the
God
of
heaven, all peace;
\VS{13}And now it
is
my order
that
all
those
of
the
people
of
Israel,
and
their
priests
and
Levites
in
my
kingdom,
who
are ready
and have
a desire
to go
to
Jerusalem,
are
to go
with
you.
\VS{14}Because
you
are
sent
by
the
king
and
his
seven wise men,
to get knowledge
about
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
as
you
are ordered
by
the
law
of
your
God
which
is
in
your
hand;
\VS{15}And
to take
with
you
the
silver
and
gold
freely
offered by
the
king
and
his wise men
to
the
God
of
Israel,
whose Temple
is
in
Jerusalem,
\VS{16}As well
as
all
the
silver
and
gold
which
you get
from
the land
of
Babylon, together
with
the
offering
of
the
people
and
of
the
priests,
freely given
for
the
house
of
their
God,
which
is
in
Jerusalem:
\VS{17}So
with
this
money get
with
care oxen, sheep,
and
lambs,
with
their meal
offerings
and
their
drink
offerings,
to
be
offered
on
the
altar
of
the
house
of
your
God,
which
is
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{18}And
whatever seems right
to
you
and
to
your
brothers
to
do
with
the
rest
of
the
silver
and
gold,
that
do,
as may
be pleasing
to
your
God.
\VS{19}And
the
vessels
which have been
given
to
you
for
the uses
of
the
house
of
your
God,
you
are
to
give
to
the
God
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{20}And whatever
more
is needed
for
the
house
of your
God,
and
which
you may
have
to
give, take it
from
the king's store-house.
\VS{21}And
I,
even
I,
Artaxerxes
the
king,
now
give
orders
to
all keepers
of
the king's money across
the
river,
that
whatever
Ezra
the
priest,
the
scribe
of
the
law
of
the
God
of
heaven, may
have need
of
from
you,
is
to
be
done
with
all
care,
\VS{22}Up
to
a
hundred
talents
of
silver,
a
hundred measures
of grain,
a
hundred measures
of
wine,
and
a
hundred measures
of
oil,
and
salt
without measure.
\VS{23}Whatever
is ordered
by
the
God
of
heaven, let
it
be
done completely
for
the
house
of
the
God
of
heaven;
so
that
there may not
be
wrath
against
the
kingdom
of
the
king
and
his
sons.
\VS{24}In addition,
we
make
it clear
to
you,
that
it
will
be
against
the law
to put
any
tax
or payment
in goods
or forced payment
on
any
of
the
priests
or
Levites,
the music-makers, door-keepers,
Nethinim,
or
any
servants
of
this
house
of
God.
\VS{25}And
you,
Ezra, by
the
wisdom
of
your
God
which
is
in
you,
are
to put rulers
and
judges
to
have authority over
all
the
people across
the
river
who
have knowledge
of
the
laws
of
your
God;
and
you
are
to give teaching
to him
who
has
no knowledge
of them.
\VS{26}And
if
anyone
does
not keep
the
law
of your
God
and
the
law
of
the
king,
take
care
that punishment
is given
to
him,
by
death
or
by driving
him
from
his country
or
by taking away
his
goods
or
by putting
him
in prison.
\VS{27}Praise
be
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
our
fathers,
who
has
put
such
a
thing
into
the
heart
of
the
king,
to
make fair
the
house
of
the
Lord
which
is
in
Jerusalem;
\VS{28}And
has
given
mercy
to
me
before
the
king
and
his government
and
before
all
the king's
great
captains.
And
I
was
made
strong
by
the
hand
of
the
Lord
my
God which
was
on
me,
and
I
got
together
out
of
Israel
chief
men
to
go
up
with
me.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
heads
of
families
who
were
listed
of
those
who
went
up
with
me
from
Babylon,
when
Artaxerxes
was
king.
\VS{2}Of
the
sons
of
Phinehas,
Gershom;
of
the
sons
of
Ithamar,
Daniel;
of
the
sons
of
David,
Hattush;
\VS{3}Of
the
sons
of
Shecaniah;
of
the
sons
of
Parosh,
Zechariah;
and
with
him
were
listed
a
hundred
and
fifty
males.
\VS{4}Of
the
sons
of
Pahath-moab,
Eliehoenai,
the
son
of
Zerahiah;
and
with
him
two
hundred
males.
\VS{5}Of
the
sons
of
Shecaniah,
the
son
of
Jahaziel;
and
with
him
three
hundred
males.
\VS{6}And
of
the
sons
of
Adin,
Ebed,
the
son
of
Jonathan;
and
with
him
fifty
males.
\VS{7}And
of
the
sons
of
Elam,
Jeshaiah;
the
son
of
Athaliah;
and
with
him
seventy
males.
\VS{8}And
of
the
sons
of
Shephatiah,
Zebadiah,
the
son
of
Michael;
and
with
him
eighty
males.
\VS{9}Of
the
sons
of
Joab,
Obadiah,
the
son
of
Jehiel;
and
with
him
two
hundred
and
eighteen
males.
\VS{10}And
of
the
sons
of
Shelomith,
the
son
of
Josiphiah;
and
with
him
a
hundred
and
sixty
males.
\VS{11}And
of
the
sons
of
Bebai,
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Bebai;
and
with
him
twenty-eight
males.
\VS{12}And
of
the
sons
of
Azgad,
Johanan,
the
son
of
Hakkatan;
and
with
him
a
hundred
and
ten
males.
\VS{13}And
of
the
sons
of
Adonikam,
the
last,
whose
names
were
Eliphelet,
Jeuel,
and
Shemaiah;
and
with
them
sixty
males.
\VS{14}And
of
the
sons
of
Bigvai,
Uthai
and
Zabbud;
and
with
them
seventy
males.
\VS{15}And
I made
them
come
together
by
the
river flowing
to
Ahava;
and
we
were
there
in tents
for
three
days:
and
after viewing
the
people
and
the
priests
I saw
that
no
sons
of
Levi
were
there.
\VS{16}Then
I
sent
for
Eliezer
and
Ariel
and
Shemaiah
and
Elnathan
Jarib
and
Elnathan
and
Nathan
and
Zechariah
and
Meshullam, all
responsible
men;
and
for
Joiarib
and
Elnathan,
who
were wise
men.
\VS{17}And
I
sent
them
to
Iddo
the
chief
at
the
place
Casiphia,
and
gave
them
orders
what
to
say
to
Iddo
and
his
brothers
the Nethinim
at
the
place
Casiphia,
so
that
they
might
come
back
to
us
with
men
to
do
the
work
of
the
house
of
our
God.
\VS{18}And
by
the help
of
our
God
they got
for
us Ish-sechel,
one
of
the
sons
of
Mahli,
the
son
of
Levi,
the
son
of
Israel;
and
Sherebiah
with
his
sons
and
brothers,
eighteen;
\VS{19}And
Hashabiah,
and
with
him
Jeshaiah
of
the
sons
of
Merari,
his
brothers
and
their
sons,
twenty;
\VS{20}And
of
the Nethinim,
to whom
David
and
the
captains
had
given
the
work
of helping
the
Levites,
two
hundred
and
twenty Nethinim,
all
of
them specially
named.
\VS{21}Then
I
gave orders
for
a time
of going
without food,
there
by
the
river
Ahava,
so
that
we might
make
ourselves low
before
our
God
in prayer, requesting
from
him
a
straight
way
for
us
and
for
our
little
ones
and
for
all
our substance.
\VS{22}For
I
would
not,
for
shame,
make
request
to
the
king
for
a band
of armed
men
and
horsemen
to give
us
help
against
those
who
might
make attacks
on
us
on
the
way:
for
we
had
said
to
the
king,
The
hand
of
our
God
is
on
his servants
for
good,
but
his
power
and
his
wrath
are
against
all
those
who
are turned
away
from
him.
\VS{23}So we went without food, requesting
our
God
for
this:
and
his ear
was open
to
our
prayer.
\VS{24}So
I put
on
one
side
twelve
of
the
chiefs
of
the
priests,
Sherebiah,
Hashabiah,
and
ten
of
their
brothers
with
them,
\VS{25}And
gave
to
them
by weight
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
the
vessels,
all
the
offering
for
the
house
of
our
God
which
the
king
and
his wise
men
and
his
captains
and
all
Israel
there
present
had
given:
\VS{26}Measuring
into
their
hands
six
hundred
and
fifty
talents
of
silver,
and
silver
vessels,
a
hundred talents' weight,
and
a
hundred
talents
of
gold,
\VS{27}And
twenty
gold basins,
of a
thousand
darics,
and
two
vessels
of
the
best bright
brass, equal
in value
to
gold.
\VS{28}And
I
said
to
them,
You
are
holy
to
the
Lord
and
the
vessels
are
holy:
and
the
silver
and
the
gold
are
an
offering
freely given
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
your
fathers.
\VS{29}Take
care
of
them
and
keep
them,
till
you put
them
on
the scales
before
the
chiefs
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
the
chiefs
of
the
families
of
Israel,
in
Jerusalem,
in
the
rooms
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{30}So
the
priests
and
the
Levites
took
the
weight
of
silver
and
gold
and
the
vessels,
to
take
them
to
Jerusalem
into
the
house
of
our
God.
\VS{31}Then we
went
away
from
the
river
of
Ahava
on
the twelfth
day
of
the
first
month,
to
go
to
Jerusalem;
and
the
hand
of
our
God
was
on
us,
and
he
gave
us salvation
from
our haters
and
those
who
were waiting
to
make
an attack
on
us
by
the
way.
\VS{32}And
we
came
to
Jerusalem
and
were
there
for
three
days.
\VS{33}And
on
the
fourth
day,
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
the
vessels
were measured
out
by weight
in
the
house
of
our
God
into
the
hands
of
Meremoth,
the
son
of
Uriah,
the
priest;
and
with
him
was
Eleazar,
the
son
of
Phinehas;
and
with
them
were
Jozabad,
the
son
of
Jeshua,
and
Noadiah,
the
son
of
Binnui,
the
Levites;
\VS{34}All
was handed
over
by
number
and
by
weight:
and
the
weight
was put
on
record
at
that
time.
\VS{35}And
those
who
had
been
prisoners,
who
had
come
back
from
a strange land,
made burned
offerings
to
the
God
of
Israel,
twelve
oxen
for
all
Israel,
ninety-six
male
sheep,
seventy-seven
lambs,
twelve he-goats
for
a sin-offering:
all
this
was
a burned
offering
to
the
Lord.
\VS{36}And
they
gave
the king's orders
to
the king's
captains
and
the
rulers
across
the
river,
and
they
gave
the
people
and
the
house
of
God
the
help
which
was needed.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
these
things
were done,
the
captains
came
to
me
and
said,
The
people
of
Israel
and
the
priests
and
Levites
have
not kept
themselves
separate
from
the
people
of
the
lands,
but
have taken part
in
the
disgusting ways
of
the
Canaanites,
the
Hittites,
the
Perizzites,
the
Jebusites,
the
Ammonites,
the
Moabites,
the
Egyptians,
and
the
Amorites.
\VS{2}For
they
have
taken
their
daughters
for
themselves
and
for
their
sons,
so
that
the
holy
seed
has
been mixed
with
the
peoples
of
the
lands;
and
in fact
the
captains
and
rulers
have
been
the
first
to
do
this evil.
\VS{3}And
hearing
this,
with signs
of
grief
and pulling
out
the
hair
of
my
head
and
my chin,
I
took
my
seat
on
the earth deeply troubled.
\VS{4}Then
everyone
who
went
in fear
of
the
words
of
the
God
of
Israel,
because
of
the sin
of
those
who
had come
back,
came
together
to
me;
and
I kept
where
I
was, overcome
with
grief,
till
the
evening
offering.
\VS{5}And
at
the
evening
offering, having made myself
low
before
God,
I
got
up,
and
with signs
of grief, falling
down
on
my
knees,
with
my
hands
stretched
out
to
the
Lord
my
God,
\VS{6}I
said,
O
my
God,
shame keeps
me
from
lifting
up
my
face
to
you,
my
God:
for
our
sins
are
increased
higher
than
our
heads
and
our evil-doing
has come
up
to
heaven.
\VS{7}From
the
days
of
our
fathers
till
this
day
we
have
been
great sinners;
and
for
our
sins,
we
and
our
kings
and
our
priests
have
been
given
up
into
the
hands
of
the
kings
of
the
lands,
to
the
sword
and
to prison
and
to loss
of goods
and
to
shame
of
face,
as
it
is
this
day.
\VS{8}And
now
for
a
little
time
grace
has
come
to
us
from
the
Lord
our
God,
to
let
a
small band
of
us get free
and
to
give
us
a nail
in
his
holy
place,
so
that
our
God
may
give
light
to
our
eyes
and
a measure
of new
life
in
our prison chains.
\VS{9}For
we
are
servants;
but
our
God
has
not
been
turned
away
from
us
in
our
prison,
but
has
had mercy
on
us
before
the eyes
of
the
kings
of
Persia,
to
give
us new strength
to
put
up
again
the
house
of
our
God
and
to
make fair
its
waste
places,
and
to
give
us
a
wall
in
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}And
now,
O
our
God,
what
are
we
to
say
after
this?
for
we
have
not kept
your laws,
\VS{11}Which
you
gave
to
your
servants
the
prophets,
saying,
The
land
into
which
you
are
going,
to
take
it
for
a heritage,
is
an
unclean
land,
because
of
the evil
lives
of
the
peoples
of
the
land
and
their
disgusting ways,
which
have
made
the
land
unclean
from
end
to
end.
\VS{12}So
now
do
not
give
your
daughters
to
their
sons
or
take
their
daughters
for
your
sons
or
do
anything
for
their
peace
or
well-being
for
ever;
so
that
you
may
be
strong, living
on
the
good
of
the
land,
and handing
it
on
to
your
children
for
a heritage
for
ever.
\VS{13}And
after
everything which
has
come
on
us
because
of
our evil-doing
and
our
great
sin,
and
seeing
that
the
punishment which
you,
O
God,
have
given
us,
is
less
than
the measure
of
our
sins,
and
that
you
have
kept
from death
those
of
us
who
are
here;
\VS{14}Are
we
again
to
go against
your
orders, taking wives
from
among
the
people
who
do
these
disgusting
things?
would
you
not
be
angry
with
us
till
our
destruction
was
complete,
till
there
was
not
one
who got
away safe?
\VS{15}O
Lord
God
of
Israel, righteousness
is
yours;
we
are only
a small band
which
has
been
kept
from death,
as
at
this
day:
see,
we
are
before
you
in
our sin;
for
no
one
may keep
his
place
before
you
because
of
this.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
while
Ezra
was
making
his prayer
and
his statement
of wrongdoing,
weeping
and
falling
down
before
the
house
of
God,
a
very
great
number
of
men
and
women
and
children
out
of
Israel
came
together round
him:
for
the
people
were
weeping
bitterly.
\VS{2}And
Shecaniah,
the
son
of
Jehiel,
one
of
the
sons
of
Elam, answering,
said
to
Ezra,
We
have done evil
against
our
God,
and
have
taken
as
our
wives strange
women
of
the
peoples
of
the
land:
but
still
there
is hope
for
Israel
in
this question.
\VS{3}Let
us
now
make
an
agreement
with
our
God
to
put
away
all
the
wives
and
all
their
children, if
it
seems right
to
my
lord
and
to
those
who
go
in fear
of
the
words
of
our
God;
and
let
it
be
done
in keeping
with
the
law.
\VS{4}Up,
now!
for
this
is
your
business,
and
we
are
with
you;
take heart
and
do
it.
\VS{5}Then
Ezra
got
up,
and
made
the
chiefs
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
all
Israel
take
an
oath
that
they
would
do
this.
So
they
took
an
oath.
\VS{6}Then
Ezra
got
up
from
before
the
house
of
God
and
went
into
the
room
of
Jehohanan,
the
son
of
Eliashib;
but
when
he
came
there,
he
took
no
food
or
drink,
for
he
was sorrowing
for
the sin
of
those
who
had
come
back.
\VS{7}And
they
made
a
public statement
through
all
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
to
all
those
who
had come back,
that
they
were
to come
together
to
Jerusalem;
\VS{8}And
that
if
anyone
did
not
come
before
three
days
were past,
as ordered
by
the
rulers
and
the responsible
men,
all
his
goods
would
be
put
under
the curse,
and
he
himself
would
be cut off
from
the meeting
of
the
people
who
had
come
back.
\VS{9}Then
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
Benjamin
came
together
to
Jerusalem
before
three
days
were past;
it
was
the
ninth
month,
on
the
twentieth
day
of
the
month;
and
all
the
people
were
seated
in
the wide
square
in front
of
the
house
of
God, shaking
with fear
because
of
this
business
and
because
of
the
great
rain.
\VS{10}And
Ezra
the
priest
got
to
his feet
and
said
to
them,
You
have
done wrong
and
taken strange
women
for
your
wives,
so
increasing
the sin
of
Israel.
\VS{11}So
now,
give
praise
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
and
do
his
pleasure;
and
make
yourselves
separate
from
the
peoples
of
the
land
and
from
the strange
women.
\VS{12}Then
all
the people, answering,
said
with
a
loud
voice,
As
you
have
said,
so
it
is
right
for
us
to
do.
\VS{13}But
the
number
of
people
is
great,
and
it
is
a
time
of
much
rain;
it
is
not possible
for
us
to go
on waiting
outside,
and
this
is
not
a
thing
which
may
be done
in
one
day
or
even
two:
for
our sin
in
this
business
is
great.
\VS{14}So
now
let
our
rulers
be representatives
for
all
the
people,
and
let
all
those
in
our
towns
who
are
married
to strange
women
come
at
fixed
times,
and
with
them
the responsible
men
and
the
judges
of
every
town,
till
the
burning
wrath
of
our
God
is
turned
away
from
us,
and
this
has
been
done.
\VS{15}Only
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Asahel,
and
Jahzeiah,
the
son
of
Tikvah,
were
against
this,
Meshullam
and
Shabbethai
the
Levite
supporting
them.
\VS{16}So
those
who
had come
back
did
so.
And
Ezra
the
priest,
with
certain
heads
of
families,
by
their fathers'
families,
all
of
them
by
their
names,
were marked
out;
and
on
the
first
day
of
the
tenth
month
they took
their
places
to go
into
the
question
with
care.
\VS{17}And
they got
to
the
end
of
all
the
men
who
were
married
to strange
women
by
the
first
day
of
the
first
month.
\VS{18}And
among
the
sons
of
the
priests
who
were
married
to strange
women
were
these:
of
the
sons
of
Jeshua,
the
son
of Jozadak
and
his
brothers,
Maaseiah
and
Eliezer
and
Jarib
and
Gedaliah.
\VS{19}And
they
gave
their word
that
they would
put
away
their
wives;
and
for
their sin,
they
gave
an
offering
of
a male
sheep
of
the
flock.
\VS{20}And
of
the
sons
of
Immer,
Hanani
and
Zebadiah.
\VS{21}And
of
the
sons
of
Harim,
Maaseiah
and
Elijah
and
Shemaiah
and
Jehiel
and
Uzziah.
\VS{22}And
of
the
sons
of
Pashhur,
Elioenai,
Maaseiah,
Ishmael,
Nethanel,
Jozabad,
and
Elasah.
\VS{23}And
of
the
Levites,
Jozabad,
and
Shimei,
and
Kelaiah (that
is
Kelita),
Pethahiah,
Judah,
and
Eliezer.
\VS{24}And
of
the music-makers,
Eliashib;
and
of
the door-keepers,
Shallum
and
Telem
and
Uri.
\VS{25}And
of
Israel,
the
sons
of
Parosh,
Ramiah
and
Izziah
and
Malchijah
and
Mijamin
and
Eleazar
and
Malchijah
and
Benaiah.
\VS{26}And
of
the
sons
of
Elam,
Mattaniah,
Zechariah,
and
Jehiel
and
Abdi
and
Jeremoth
and
Elijah.
\VS{27}And
of
the
sons
of
Zattu,
Elioenai,
Eliashib,
Mattaniah,
and
Jeremoth
and
Zabad
and
Aziza.
\VS{28}And
of
the
sons
of
Bebai,
Jehohanan,
Hananiah,
Zabbai, Athlai.
\VS{29}And
of
the
sons
of
Bani,
Meshullam,
Malluch,
and
Adaiah,
Jashub
and
Sheal,
Jeremoth.
\VS{30}And
of
the
sons
of
Pahath-moab,
Adna
and
Chelal,
Benaiah,
Maaseiah,
Mattaniah,
Bezalel
and
Binnui
and
Manasseh.
\VS{31}And
of
the
sons
of
Harim,
Eliezer,
Isshijah,
Malchijah,
Shemaiah,
Shimeon,
\VS{32}Benjamin,
Malluch,
Shemariah.
\VS{33}Of
the
sons
of
Hashum,
Mattenai,
Mattattah,
Zabad,
Eliphelet,
Jeremai,
Manasseh,
Shimei.
\VS{34}Of
the
sons
of
Bani,
Maadai,
Amram,
and
Uel,
\VS{35}Benaiah,
Bedeiah,
Cheluhi,
\VS{36}Vaniah,
Meremoth,
Eliashib,
\VS{37}Mattaniah,
Mattenai, and
Jaasu,
\VS{38}And Bani
and
Binnui,
Shimei;
\VS{39}And
Shelemiah
and
Nathan
and
Adaiah,
\VS{40}Machnadebai,
Shashai,
Sharai,
\VS{41}Azarel
and
Shelemiah,
Shemariah,
\VS{42}Shallum,
Amariah,
Joseph.
\VS{43}Of
the
sons
of
Nebo,
Jeiel,
Mattithiah,
Zabad,
Zebina,
Iddo,
and
Joel,
Benaiah.
\VS{44}All
these
had
taken strange
wives;
and
some
of
them
had
wives
by
whom
they
had
offspring.
\par }