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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The history
of
Nehemiah,
the
son
of
Hacaliah.
Now
it
came
about,
in
the
month
Chislev,
in
the
twentieth
year,
when
I
was
in Shushan,
the king's town,
\VS{2}That
Hanani,
one
of
my
brothers,
came
with
certain
men
from
Judah;
and
in answer
to
my
request
for news
of
the
Jews
who
had
been
prisoners
and
had got
away,
and
of
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}They
said
to
me,
The small band
of Jews
now living
there
in
the land
are
in
great
trouble
and
shame:
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
has
been
broken
down,
and
its doorways
burned
with
fire.
\VS{4}Then,
after
hearing
these
words,
for
some
days
I
gave myself
up
to
weeping
and sorrow,
seated
on
the
earth;
and taking no food
I
made prayer
to
the
God
of
heaven,
\VS{5}And
said,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
heaven,
the
great
God,
greatly
to
be
feared,
keeping faith
and
mercy
with those
who
have
love
for
him
and
are
true
to
his laws:
\VS{6}Let
your
ear
now
take note
and
let
your
eyes
be
open,
so
that
you
may
give
ear
to
the
prayer
of
your
servant,
which
I
make
before
you
at
this
time,
day
and
night,
for
the
children
of
Israel,
your
servants,
while
I put
before
you
the
sins
of
the
children
of
Israel,
which
we
have
done
against
you:
truly,
I
and
my father's
people
are sinners.
\VS{7}We
have done great wrong
against
you,
and
have
not
kept
the
orders,
the
rules,
and
the
decisions,
which
you
gave
to
your
servant
Moses.
\VS{8}Keep
in
mind,
O Lord,
the
order
you
gave
your
servant
Moses,
saying,
If
you
do wrong
I
will send
you wandering among
the
peoples:
\VS{9}But
if
you
come
back
to
me
and
keep
my
orders
and
do
them,
even
if
those
of
you
who
have
been forced
out
are
living
in
the farthest parts
of
heaven,
I
will
get
them
from
there,
and
take
them
back
to
the
place marked
out
by
me
for
the resting-place
of
my
name.
\VS{10}Now
these
are
your
servants
and
your
people,
whom
you
have
made
yours
by
your
great
power
and
by
your
strong
hand.
\VS{11}O
Lord,
let
your
ear
take note
of
the
prayer
of
your
servant,
and
of
the
prayers
of
your
servants,
who
take
delight
in worshipping
your
name:
give help,
O
Lord,
to
your
servant
this
day,
and
let
him
have
mercy
in
the eyes
of
this
man. (Now
I
was
the king's wine-servant.)

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
about
in
the
month
Nisan,
in
the
twentieth
year
of
Artaxerxes
the
king,
when
wine
was
before
him,
that
I
took
up
the
wine
and
gave
it
to
the
king.
Now
I
had
never
before
been sad
when
the
king
was
present.
\VS{2}And
the
king
said
to
me,
Why
is
your
face
sad,
seeing
that
you
are
not ill?
this
is
nothing
but sorrow
of
heart.
Then
I
was full
of
fear;
\VS{3}And
said
to
the
king,
May
the
king
be living
for
ever:
is
it
not natural
for
my
face
to
be sad,
when
the
town,
the
place
where
the bodies
of
my
fathers
are
at rest,
has
been
made waste
and
its doorways burned
with
fire?
\VS{4}Then
the
king
said
to
me,
What
is
your
desire?
So
I
made prayer
to
the
God
of
heaven.
\VS{5}And
I
said
to
the
king,
If
it
is
the king's pleasure,
and
if
your
servant
has
your approval,
send
me
to
Judah,
to
the
town
where
the bodies
of
my
fathers
are
at rest,
so
that
I
may take
in hand
the
building
of
it.
\VS{6}And
the
king
said
to
me (the
queen
being
seated
by
his
side),
How
long
will
your
journey
take,
and
when
will
you
come
back?
So
the
king
was
pleased
to
send
me,
and
I
gave
him
a fixed
time.
\VS{7}Further,
I
said
to
the
king,
If
it
is
the king's pleasure,
let
letters
be
given
to
me
for
the rulers
across
the
river,
so
that
they
may
let
me
go
through
till
I
come
to
Judah;
\VS{8}And
a
letter
to
Asaph,
the
keeper
of
the king's park,
so
that
he
may
give
me
wood
to
make boards
for
the doors
of
the tower
of
the
house,
and
for
the
wall
of
the
town,
and
for
the
house
which
is
to
be mine.
And
the
king
gave
me
this,
for
the
hand
of
my
God
was
on
me.
\VS{9}Then
I
came
to
the
rulers
of
the lands
across
the
river
and
gave
them
the king's
letters.
Now
the
king
had
sent
with
me
captains
of
the
army
and
horsemen.
\VS{10}And
Sanballat
the
Horonite
and
Tobiah
the
servant,
the
Ammonite,
hearing
of
it,
were
greatly troubled
because
a
man
had
come
to
the help
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{11}So
I
came
to
Jerusalem
and
was
there
three
days.
\VS{12}And
in
the
night
I
got
up, taking
with
me
a
small band
of
men;
I
said
nothing
to
any
man
of
what
God
had
put
into
my
heart
to
do
for
Jerusalem:
and
I
had
no
beast
with
me
but
the
one
on
which
I
was seated.
\VS{13}And
I
went
out
by
night,
through
the doorway
of
the
valley,
and past
the dragon's water-spring
as
far
as
the
place
where waste material
was
put, viewing
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
which
were
broken
down,
and
the doorways
which
had
been burned
with
fire.
\VS{14}Then
I
went
on
to
the door
of
the fountain
and
to
the king's
pool:
but
there
was
no
room
for
my
beast
to get
through.
\VS{15}Then
in
the
night,
I
went
up
by
the
stream, viewing
the
wall;
then
turning
back,
I
went
in
by
the door
in
the
valley,
and
so
came
back.
\VS{16}And
the chiefs
had
no
knowledge
of
where
I
had
been
or
what
I
was
doing;
and
I
had
not
then
said
anything
to
the
Jews
or
to
the
priests
or
the great ones
or
the chiefs
or
the
rest
of
those
who were
doing
the
work.
\VS{17}Then
I
said
to
them,
You
see
what
a
bad condition
we
are
in;
how
Jerusalem
is
a waste,
and
its doorways
burned
with
fire:
come,
let
us get
to work,
building
up
the
wall
of
Jerusalem,
so
that
we
may
no
longer
be put
to
shame.
\VS{18}Then
I
gave
them
an
account
of
how
the
hand
of
my
God
was
on
me, helping
me;
and
of
the king's
words
which
he
had
said
to
me.
And
they
said,
Let
us
get
to
work
on
the
building.
So
they
made
their
hands
strong
for
the
good
work.
\VS{19}But
Sanballat
the
Horonite
and
Tobiah
the
servant,
the
Ammonite,
and
Geshem
the Arabian,
hearing
of
it,
made sport
of
us, laughing
at
us
and
saying,
What
are
you
doing?
will
you go
against
the
king?
\VS{20}Then answering
them
I
said,
The
God
of
heaven,
he
will
be
our
help;
so
we
his
servants
will
go
on
with
our
building:
but
you
have
no
part
or
right
or
any
name
in
Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Eliashib,
the
chief
priest,
got
up
with
his
brothers
the
priests,
and
took
in hand
the
building
of
the
sheep doorway;
they
made
it
holy
and put
its
doors
in
position;
as
far
as
the
tower
of Hammeah
they
made
it
holy,
even
to
the
tower
of
Hananel.
\VS{2}And
by
his
side
the
men
of
Jericho
were
building.
And
after
them,
Zaccur,
the
son
of
Imri.
\VS{3}The
sons
of
Hassenaah
were
the
builders
of
the
fish doorway;
they put
its boards
in
place
and put
up
its
doors,
with
their locks
and rods.
\VS{4}By
their
side
Meremoth,
the
son
of
Uriah,
the
son
of
Hakkoz,
was
making good
the walls.
Then
Meshullam,
the
son
of
Berechiah,
the
son
of
Meshezabel;
and
by
him,
Zadok,
the
son
of
Baana.
\VS{5}Near
them,
the
Tekoites
were
at
work;
but
their chiefs
did
not
put
their
necks
to
the
work
of
their
Lord.
\VS{6}Joiada,
the
son
of
Paseah,
and
Meshullam,
the
son
of
Besodeiah,
made good
the
old doorway;
they
put
its boards
in
place
and
put
up
its
doors,
with
their locks
and rods.
\VS{7}By
their
side
were working
Melatiah
the
Gibeonite
and
Jadon
the
Meronothite,
the
men
of
Gibeon
and
of
Mizpah
from
the
seat
of
the ruler
across
the
river.
\VS{8}Near
them
was working
Uzziel,
the
son
of Harhaiah,
the gold-worker.
And
by
him
was
Hananiah,
one
of
the perfume-makers, building
up
Jerusalem
as
far
as
the
wide
wall.
\VS{9}Near
them
was working
Rephaiah,
the
son
of
Hur,
the
ruler
of
half
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}By
his
side
was
Jedaiah,
the
son
of
Harumaph,
opposite
his
house.
And
by
him
was
Hattush,
the
son
of
Hashabneiah.
\VS{11}Malchijah,
the
son
of
Harim,
and
Hasshub,
the
son
of
Pahath-moab,
were working
on
another part,
and
the
tower
of
the
ovens.
\VS{12}Near
them
was
Shallum,
the
son
of
Hallohesh,
the
ruler
of
half
Jerusalem,
with
his
daughters.
\VS{13}Hanun
and
the
people
of
Zanoah
were working
on
the doorway
of
the
valley;
they
put
it
up
and
put
up
its
doors,
with
their locks
and rods,
and
a
thousand
cubits
of
wall
as
far
as
the doorway
where
the waste material
was
placed.
\VS{14}And
Malchijah,
the
son
of
Rechab,
the
ruler
of
the division
of
Beth-haccherem,
made good
the doorway
of
the waste,
building
it
up
and putting
up
its
doors,
with
their locks
and rods.
\VS{15}And
Shallun,
the
son
of
Col-hozeh,
the
ruler
of
the division
of
Mizpah,
made good
the doorway
of
the fountain,
building
it
up
and covering
it
and putting
up
its
doors,
with
their locks
and rods,
with
the
wall
of
the
pool
of Shelah
by
the king's
garden,
as
far
as
the
steps
which
go
down
from
the
town
of
David.
\VS{16}By
his
side
was working
Nehemiah,
the
son
of
Azbuk,
ruler
of
half
the division
of
Beth-zur,
as
far
as
the
place
opposite
the last resting-places
of David's
family,
and
the
pool
which
was
made
and
the
house
of
the
men
of war.
\VS{17}Then came
the
Levites,
Rehum,
the
son
of
Bani.
By
his
side
was working
Hashabiah,
ruler
of
half
the division
of
Keilah,
for
his division.
\VS{18}After
him
were working
their
brothers,
Bavvai,
the
son
of
Henadad,
ruler
of
half
the division
of
Keilah.
\VS{19}And
by
his
side
was working
Ezer,
the
son
of
Jeshua,
the
ruler
of
Mizpah,
making good
another
part
opposite
the
way
up
to
the store
of
arms
at
the turning
of
the wall.
\VS{20}After
him
Baruch,
the
son
of
Zabbai,
was
hard
at work
on
another
part,
from
the turning
of
the wall
to
the
door
of
the
house
of
Eliashib,
the
chief
priest.
\VS{21}After
him
Meremoth,
the
son
of
Uriah,
the
son
of
Hakkoz,
was working
on
another part,
from
the
door
of
the
house
of
Eliashib
as
far
as
the
end
of
his
house.
\VS{22}After
him
were working
the
priests,
the
men
of
the lowland.
\VS{23}After
them came
Benjamin
and
Hasshub,
opposite
their
house.
After
them
Azariah,
the
son
of
Maaseiah,
the
son
of
Ananiah,
made good
the wall
by
the
house
where
he
himself
was living.
\VS{24}After
him
Binnui,
the
son
of
Henadad,
was working
on
another part,
from
the
house
of
Azariah
as
far
as
the turning
of
the wall
and
the
angle.
\VS{25}Palal,
the
son
of
Uzai,
made good
the wall
opposite
the
angle
and
the
tower
which
comes
out
from
the higher part
of
the king's
house,
by
the open space
of
the watch.
After
him
was
Pedaiah,
the
son
of
Parosh.
\VS{26}(Now
the Nethinim
were
living
in
the
Ophel,
as
far
as
the
place facing
the
water doorway
to
the
east,
and
the
tower
which
comes
out.)
\VS{27}After
him
the
Tekoites
were
making good
another part,
opposite
the
great
tower which
comes
out,
and
up
to
the
wall
of
the
Ophel.
\VS{28}Further
on, past
the
horse doorway,
the
priests
were
at work,
every
one
opposite
his
house.
\VS{29}After
them
Zadok,
the
son
of
Immer,
was working
opposite
his
house.
And
after
him
Shemaiah,
the
son
of
Shecaniah,
the
keeper
of
the
east door.
\VS{30}After
him
Hananiah,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
and
Hanun,
the
sixth
son
of
Zalaph,
were
making good
another
part.
After
him
Meshullam,
the
son
of
Berechiah,
made good
the wall
opposite
his
room.
\VS{31}After
him
Malchijah,
one
of
the gold-workers
to
the Nethinim
and
the
traders,
made good
the wall
opposite
the doorway
of Hammiphkad
and
as
far
as
the
way
up
to
the angle.
\VS{32}And
between
the way up
to
the angle
and
the
sheep door,
the gold-workers
and
the
traders
made good
the wall.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now,
Sanballat,
hearing
that
we
were building
the
wall,
was
very
angry,
and
in
his wrath
made sport
of
the Jews.
\VS{2}And
in
the hearing
of
his countrymen
and
the
army
of Samaria
he said,
What
are
these feeble Jews
doing?
will
they
make themselves strong?
will
they
make offerings?
will
they
get
the work
done
in
a day?
will
they
make
the stones which
have
been burned
come again
out
of
the dust?
\VS{3}Now Tobiah
the Ammonite
was
by
him,
and
he
said, Such
is
their building
that if
a fox
goes
up
it,
their stone wall
will
be broken
down.
\VS{4}Give ear,
O
our
God,
for
we
are looked
down
on:
let
their words
of shame
be turned back
on
themselves,
and
let
them
be given
up
to wasting
in
a land
where
they
are prisoners:
\VS{5}Let
not
their wrongdoing
be covered
or
their sin washed
away
from
before
you:
for
they
have
made
you angry
before
the builders.
\VS{6}So
we
went
on building
the wall;
and
all
the wall
was
joined
together half-way
up:
for
the
people
were working hard.
\VS{7}But
when
it came
to
the ears
of Sanballat
and Tobiah
and
the Arabians
and
the Ammonites
and
the Ashdodites,
that
the building
of
the
walls
of Jerusalem
was going forward
and
the broken
places
were being made good,
they
were full
of wrath;
\VS{8}And
they
made designs,
all
of
them
together,
to
come
and
make
an
attack
on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.
\VS{9}But
we
made
our prayer
to
God,
and
had
men
on
watch
against
them day
and night
because
of
them.
\VS{10}And
Judah said,
The
strength
of
the
workmen
is giving
way,
and
there
is
much waste
material;
it
is impossible
for
us
to
put
up
the wall.
\VS{11}And
those
who
were
against
us said, Without
their knowledge
and without
their seeing
us,
we
will come among
them
and
put
them
to death, causing
the
work
to come
to
a stop.
\VS{12}And
it
came
about
that
when
the Jews
who
were
living
near
them
came,
they said
to
us ten times,
From
all directions
they
are coming
against
us.
\VS{13}So
in
the lowest
part
of
the space
at
the
back
of
the
walls,
in
the open
places,
I put
the
people
by families,
with
their swords,
their spears,
and
their bows.
\VS{14}And
after looking,
I got
up
and
said
to
the
great ones
and
to
the chiefs
and
to
the rest
of
the
people,
Have no fear
of
them:
keep
in mind
the Lord
who
is
great
and greatly
to
be feared,
and take
up arms
for
your brothers,
your sons,
and
your daughters,
your wives
and
your houses.
\VS{15}And
when
it
came
to
the ears
of
those
who
were
against
us,
that
we
had knowledge
of
their designs
and
that God
had
made
their
purpose
come
to nothing,
we
all
went
back
to
the wall, everyone
to
his
work
\VS{16}And
from
that
time, half
of
my
servants
were doing
their
part
of
the
work,
and half kept
the spears
and body-covers
and
the bows
and
the metal war-dresses;
and
the chiefs
were
at
the back
of
the
men
of Judah.
\VS{17}Those
who
were building
the wall
and
those
who
were moving material
did
their part,
everyone working
with
one hand,
with
his spear
in
the
other;
\VS{18}Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.
\VS{19}And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall:
\VS{20}Wherever you may be when the horn is sounded, come here to us; our God will be fighting for us.
\VS{21}So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.
\VS{22}And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.
\VS{23}So not one of us, I or my brothers or my servants or the watchmen who were with me, took off his clothing, everyone went armed to the water.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
there
was
a
great
outcry
from
the
people
and
their
wives
against
their
countrymen
the
Jews.
\VS{2}For
there
were
some
who
said,
We,
our
sons
and
our
daughters,
are
a
great number: let
us
get
grain,
so
that
we
may
have
food
for
our needs.
\VS{3}And
there
were some
who
said,
We
are giving
our
fields
and
our vine-gardens
and
our
houses
for debt: let
us
get
grain
because
we
are
in need.
\VS{4}And
there
were others
who
said,
We
have given
up
our
fields
and
our vine-gardens
to get
money
for
the king's taxes.
\VS{5}But
our
flesh
is
the
same
as
the
flesh
of
our
countrymen,
and
our
children
as
their
children:
and
now
we
are giving
our
sons
and
daughters
into
the
hands
of
others,
to
be
their
servants,
and
some
of
our
daughters
are
servants
even
now:
and
we
have
no
power
to
put
a stop
to
it;
for
other
men
have
our
fields
and
our vine-gardens.
\VS{6}And
on
hearing
their
outcry
and
what
they
said
I
was
very
angry.
\VS{7}And
after turning
it
over
in
my
mind,
I
made
a protest
to
the chiefs
and
the
rulers,
and
said
to
them,
Every
one
of
you
is taking interest
from
his
countryman.
And
I got
together
a
great meeting
of protest.
\VS{8}And
I
said
to
them,
We
have given whatever
we
were able
to give,
to
make
our
brothers
the
Jews free,
who
were servants
and prisoners
of
the
nations:
and
would
you
now give
up
your
brothers
for
a price,
and
are
they
to become
our property?
Then
they
said
nothing, answering
not
a
word.
\VS{9}And
I
said,
What
you
are
doing
is
not
good:
is
it
not
the
more necessary
for
you
to go
in
the
fear
of
our
God,
because
of
the
shame
which
the
nations
may put
on
us?
\VS{10}Even
I
and
my
servants
have been taking interest
for
the
money
and
the
grain
we
have
let
them
have.
So
now,
let
us
give
up
this
thing.
\VS{11}Give
back
to
them
this very
day
their
fields,
their vine-gardens,
their olive-gardens,
and
their
houses,
as
well
as
a
hundredth
part
of
the
money
and
the
grain
and
the
wine
and
the
oil
which
you
have taken
from
them.
\VS{12}Then
they
said,
We
will
give
them
back,
and
take
nothing
for
them;
we
will
do
as
you
say.
Then
I
sent
for
the
priests
and
made
them
take
an
oath
that
they
would
keep
this
agreement.
\VS{13}And shaking
out
the folds
of
my robe,
I
said,
So
may
God send
out
from
his
house
and
his
work
every
man
who
does
not
keep
this
agreement;
even
so
let
him
be
sent
out
and
made
as
nothing.
And
all
the meeting
of
the
people
said,
So
be
it,
and
gave
praise
to
the
Lord.
And
the
people
did
as
they
had
said.
\VS{14}Now
from
the
time
when
I
was
made ruler
of
the
people
in
the
land
of
Judah,
from
the
twentieth
year
till
the thirty-second
year
of
Artaxerxes
the
king,
for
twelve
years,
I
and
my servants
have
never
taken
the
food
which
was
the
right
of
the ruler.
\VS{15}But
earlier
rulers
who
were
before
me
made
the
people
responsible
for
their upkeep,
and
took
from
them
bread
and
wine
at
the rate
of
forty
shekels
of
silver;
and
even
their
servants
were lords
over
the
people:
but
I
did
not
do
so,
because
of
the
fear
of
God.
\VS{16}And
I kept
on
with
the
work
of
this
wall,
and
we got
no
land
for
ourselves:
and
all
my
servants
were helping
with
the
work.
\VS{17}And
more
than
this,
a
hundred
and
fifty
of
the
Jews
and
the
rulers
were guests
at
my
table,
in
addition
to
those
who
came
to
us
from
the
nations
round
about
us.
\VS{18}Now
the
food
made ready
for
one
day
was
one
ox
and
six fat
sheep,
as
well
as fowls;
and
once
in
ten
days
a store
of
all sorts
of
wine:
but
all
the
same,
I
did
not
take
the
food
to
which
the ruler
had
a right,
because
the
people
were crushed
under
a hard yoke.
\VS{19}Keep
in
mind,
O
my
God,
for
my
good,
all
I
have
done
for
this
people.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when word
was
given
to
Sanballat
and
Tobiah
and
to
Geshem
the Arabian
and
to
the
rest
of
our haters,
that
I
had
done
the
building
of
the
wall
and
that
there
were
no
more broken places
in
it (though
even
then
I
had
not put
up
the
doors
in
the doorways);
\VS{2}Sanballat
and
Geshem
sent
to
me
saying, Come,
let
us
have
a meeting
in
one
of
the little towns
in
the lowland
of
Ono.
But
their purpose
was
to
do
me
evil.
\VS{3}And
I
sent
men
to
them
saying,
I
am
doing
a
great
work,
so
that
it
is
not possible
for
me
to
come
down:
is
the
work
to
be stopped
while
I
go
away
from
it
and
come
down
to
you?
\VS{4}And
four
times they
sent
to
me
in
this
way,
and
I
sent
them
the
same
answer.
\VS{5}Then
Sanballat
sent
his
servant
to
me
a
fifth
time
with
an
open
letter
in
his
hand;
\VS{6}And
in
it
these
words
were
recorded:
It
is
said
among
the
nations,
and
Geshem
says
so,
that
you
and
the
Jews
are hoping
to
make
yourselves free
from
the king's
authority;
and
that
this
is
why
you
are
building
the
wall:
and
they
say
that
it
is
your
purpose
to
be
their
king;
\VS{7}And
that
you
have
prophets preaching
about
you
in
Jerusalem,
and
saying,
There
is
a
king
in
Judah:
now
an
account
of
these
things
will
be
sent
to
the
king.
So come
now,
and
let
us
have
a discussion.
\VS{8}Then
I
sent
to
him,
saying,
No
such
things
as
you
say
are
being
done,
they
are only
a fiction
you
have
made
up
yourself.
\VS{9}For
they
were hoping
to
put
fear
in
us,
saying,
Their
hands
will
become
feeble
and give
up
the
work
so
that
it
may
not get
done.
But
now, O
God,
make
my
hands
strong.
\VS{10}And
I
went
to
the
house
of
Shemaiah,
the
son
of
Delaiah,
the
son
of
Mehetabel,
who
was
shut
up;
and
he
said, Let
us
have
a meeting
in
the
house
of
God,
inside
the
Temple,
and let
the
doors
be
shut:
for
they
will
come
to
put
you
to death;
truly,
in
the
night
they
will
come
to
put
you
to death.
\VS{11}And
I
said, Am
I
the sort
of
man
to
go
in
flight?
what
man,
in
my position,
would
go
into
the
Temple
to
keep
himself safe?
I
will
not
go
in.
\VS{12}Then
it became clear
to
me
that
God
had
not
sent
him:
he
had given
this
word
of
a
prophet
against
me
himself:
and
Tobiah
and
Sanballat
had given
him money
to do
so.
\VS{13}For
this
reason
they
had given
him money,
in
order
that
I
might
be overcome
by
fear
and
do
what
he
said
and
do
wrong,
and
so
they
would
have
reason
to say
evil
about
me
and put shame
on
me.
\VS{14}Keep
in
mind,
O
my
God,
Tobiah
and
Sanballat
and
what
they
did,
and
Noadiah,
the woman
prophet,
and
the
rest
of
the
prophets
whose purpose
was
to
put
fear
into
me.
\VS{15}So
the
wall
was complete
on
the twenty-fifth
day
of
the month
Elul,
in
fifty-two
days.
\VS{16}And
when
our haters
had news
of
this,
all
the
nations
round
about
us
were
full
of fear
and
were
greatly shamed,
for
they
saw
that
this
work
had
been
done
by
our
God.
\VS{17}And further,
in
those
days
the chiefs
of
Judah sent
a
number
of
letters
to
Tobiah,
and
his
letters
came
to
them.
\VS{18}For
in
Judah there
were
a number
of
people
who
had
made
an agreement
by
oath
with
him,
because
he
was
the
son-in-law
of
Shecaniah,
the
son
of
Arah;
and
his
son
Jehohanan
had
taken
as
his wife
the
daughter
of
Meshullam,
the
son
of
Berechiah.
\VS{19}And
they
said
much
before
me
of
the
good
he
had
done,
and
gave
him accounts
of
my
words.
And
Tobiah
sent
letters
with
the
purpose
of causing
me
fear.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
the
building
of
the
wall
was complete
and
I
had
put
up
the
doors,
and
the door-keepers
and
the music-makers
and
the
Levites
had
been given
their places,
\VS{2}I made
my
brother
Hanani,
and
Hananiah,
the
ruler
of
the tower, responsible
for
the government
of
Jerusalem:
for
he
was
a
man
of good
faith, fearing
God
more
than most.
\VS{3}And
I
said
to
them, Do
not
let
the
doors
of
Jerusalem
be
open
till
the
sun
is high;
and
while
the watchmen
are
in
their
places,
let
the
doors
be
shut
and locked:
and
let
the
people
of
Jerusalem
be put
on
watch,
every
one
in
his
watch,
opposite
his
house.
\VS{4}Now
the
town
was
wide
and
great:
but
the
people
in
it
were only
a
small number,
and
the
houses
had
not
been
put
up.
\VS{5}And
my
God
put
it
into
my
heart
to
get
together
the
rulers
and
the
chiefs
and
the
people
so
that
they might
be
listed
by families.
And
I
came across
a
record
of
the names
of
those
who
came
up
at
the
first,
and
in
it
I saw
these words:
\VS{6}These
are
the
people
of
the divisions
of
the
kingdom,
among
those
who
had
been
made
prisoners
by
Nebuchadnezzar,
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
taken
away
by
him,
who
went
back
to
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
every
one
to
his
town;
\VS{7}Who
came
with
Zerubbabel,
Jeshua,
Nehemiah,
Azariah,
Raamiah,
Nahamani,
Mordecai,
Bilshan,
Mispereth,
Bigvai,
Nehum,
Baanah.
The
number
of
the
men
of
the
people
of
Israel:
\VS{8}The
children
of
Parosh,
two
thousand,
one
hundred
and seventy-two.
\VS{9}The
children
of
Shephatiah,
three
hundred
and seventy-two.
\VS{10}The
children
of
Arah,
six
hundred
and
fifty-two.
\VS{11}The
children
of
Pahath-moab,
of
the
children
of
Jeshua
and
Joab,
two
thousand,
eight
hundred
and
eighteen.
\VS{12}The
children
of
Elam,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and fifty-four.
\VS{13}The
children
of
Zattu,
eight
hundred
and
forty-five.
\VS{14}The
children
of
Zaccai,
seven
hundred
and
sixty.
\VS{15}The
children
of
Binnui,
six
hundred
and
forty-eight.
\VS{16}The
children
of
Bebai,
six
hundred
and
twenty-eight.
\VS{17}The
children
of
Azgad,
two
thousand,
three
hundred
and
twenty-two.
\VS{18}The
children
of
Adonikam,
six
hundred
and sixty-seven.
\VS{19}The
children
of
Bigvai, two
thousand
and sixty-seven.
\VS{20}The
children
of
Adin,
six
hundred
and
fifty-five.
\VS{21}The
children
of
Ater,
of
Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
\VS{22}The
children
of
Hashum,
three
hundred
and
twenty-eight.
\VS{23}The
children
of
Bezai,
three
hundred
and
twenty-four.
\VS{24}The
children
of
Hariph,
a
hundred
and
twelve.
\VS{25}The
children
of
Gibeon, ninety-five.
\VS{26}The
men
of Beth-lehem
and
Netophah,
a
hundred
and
eighty-eight.
\VS{27}The
men
of
Anathoth,
a
hundred
and
twenty-eight.
\VS{28}The
men
of
Beth-azmaveth,
forty-two.
\VS{29}The
men
of
Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah,
and
Beeroth,
seven
hundred
and forty-three.
\VS{30}The
men
of
Ramah
and
Geba,
six
hundred
and twenty-one.
\VS{31}The
men
of
Michmas,
a
hundred
and
twenty-two.
\VS{32}The
men
of Beth-el
and
Ai,
a
hundred
and twenty-three.
\VS{33}The
men
of
the
other
Nebo,
fifty-two.
\VS{34}The
children
of
the
other
Elam,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and fifty-four.
\VS{35}The
children
of
Harim,
three
hundred
and
twenty.
\VS{36}The
children
of
Jericho,
three
hundred
and
forty-five.
\VS{37}The
children
of Lod,
Hadid,
and
Ono,
seven
hundred
and twenty-one.
\VS{38}The
children
of
Senaah,
three
thousand,
nine
hundred
and
thirty.
\VS{39}The
priests:
the
children
of
Jedaiah,
of
the
family
of
Jeshua,
nine
hundred
and seventy-three.
\VS{40}The
children
of
Immer,
a
thousand
and
fifty-two.
\VS{41}The
children
of
Pashhur,
a
thousand,
two
hundred
and forty-seven.
\VS{42}The
children
of
Harim,
a
thousand
and
seventeen.
\VS{43}The
Levites:
the
children
of
Jeshua,
of
Kadmiel,
of
the
children
of
Hodevah, seventy-four.
\VS{44}The music-makers:
the
children
of
Asaph,
a
hundred
and
forty-eight.
\VS{45}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-eight.
\VS{46}The Nethinim:
the
children
of
Ziha,
the
children
of
Hasupha,
the
children
of
Tabbaoth,
\VS{47}The
children
of
Keros,
the
children
of
Sia,
the
children
of
Padon,
\VS{48}The
children
of
Lebana,
the
children
of Hagaba,
the
children
of Salmai,
\VS{49}The
children
of
Hanan,
the
children
of
Giddel,
the
children
of
Gahar,
\VS{50}The
children
of
Reaiah,
the
children
of
Rezin,
the
children
of
Nekoda,
\VS{51}The
children
of
Gazzam,
the
children
of
Uzza,
the
children
of
Paseah,
\VS{52}The
children
of
Besai,
the
children
of
Meunim,
the
children
of Nephushesim,
\VS{53}The
children
of
Bakbuk,
the
children
of
Hakupha,
the
children
of Harhur,
\VS{54}The
children
of
Bazlith,
the
children
of
Mehida,
the
children
of
Harsha,
\VS{55}The
children
of
Barkos,
the
children
of
Sisera,
the
children
of
Temah,
\VS{56}The
children
of
Neziah,
the
children
of
Hatipha.
\VS{57}The
children
of Solomon's
servants:
the
children
of
Sotai,
the
children
of
Sophereth,
the
children
of
Perida,
\VS{58}The
children
of
Jaala,
the
children
of
Darkon,
the
children
of
Giddel,
\VS{59}The
children
of
Shephatiah,
the
children
of
Hattil,
the
children
of
Pochereth-hazzebaim,
the
children
of
Amon.
\VS{60}All
the Nethinim
and
the
children
of Solomon's
servants
were
three
hundred
and ninety-two.
\VS{61}All
these
were
the
people
who
went
up
from
Tel-melah,
Tel-harsha,
Cherub,
Addon,
and
Immer;
but
because
they
had
no knowledge
of
their fathers'
families
or
offspring,
it
was
not certain
if
they
were
Israelites:
\VS{62}The
children
of
Delaiah,
the
children
of
Tobiah,
the
children
of
Nekoda,
six
hundred
and
forty-two.
\VS{63}And
of
the
priests:
the
children
of
Hobaiah,
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{64}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{65}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
the
Urim
and
Thummim.
\VS{66}The number
of
all
the
people
together
was forty-two
thousand,
three
hundred
and
sixty;
\VS{67}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
and
forty-five
men
and women
to make music.
\VS{68}They
had
seven
hundred
and thirty-six horses,
two
hundred
and forty-five transport beasts;
\VS{69}Four
hundred
and thirty-five camels, six
thousand, seven
hundred
and twenty asses.
\VS{70}And some
of
the
heads
of
families
gave
money
for
the
work.
The Tirshatha
gave
into
the store
a
thousand darics
of
gold, fifty basins, five
hundred
and thirty priests' robes.
\VS{71}And
some
of
the heads
of
families
gave
into
the store
for
the
work twenty
thousand darics
of
gold,
and
two
thousand,
two hundred pounds
of
silver.
\VS{72}And
that which
the rest
of
the
people gave
was twenty thousand darics
of gold,
and
two thousand pounds
of silver,
and sixty-seven priests' robes.
\VS{73}So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
the seventh month
came,
the children
of
Israel
were
in
their
towns.
And
all
the
people
came
together
like
one
man
into
the wide
place
in
front
of
the water-doorway;
and
they
made
a
request
to
Ezra
the
scribe
that
he
would
put
before
them
the
book
of
the
law
of
Moses
which
the
Lord
had
given
to
Israel.
\VS{2}And
Ezra
the
priest
put
the
law
before
the meeting
of
the
people,
before
the
men
and
women
and
all
those
who
were able
to
take
it
in,
on
the
first
day
of
the
seventh
month.
\VS{3}He
was
reading
it
in
the wide
place
in
front
of
the water-doorway,
from
early
morning
till
the middle
of
the
day,
in
the
hearing
of
all
those
men
and
women
whose
minds
were able
to take
it
in;
and
the
ears
of
all
the
people
were
open
to
the
book
of
the
law.
\VS{4}And
Ezra
the
scribe
took
his
place
on
a
tower
of
wood
which
they
had
made
for
the
purpose;
and
by
his
side
were
placed
Mattithiah
and
Shema
and
Anaiah
and
Uriah
and
Hilkiah
and
Maaseiah
on
the
right;
and
on
the
left,
Pedaiah
and
Mishael
and
Malchijah
and
Hashum
and
Hashbaddanah,
Zechariah
and
Meshullam.
\VS{5}And
Ezra
took
the
book, opening
it
before
the
eyes
of
all
the
people (for
he
was higher
than
the
people);
and
when
it
was
open,
all
the
people got
to
their feet:
\VS{6}And
Ezra gave
praise
to
the
Lord,
the
great
God.
And
all
the
people
in
answer
said,
So
be
it,
so
be
it;
lifting
up
their
hands;
and
with bent heads
they gave
worship
to
the
Lord, going
down
on
their
faces
to
the
earth.
\VS{7}And
Jeshua
and
Bani
and
Sherebiah
and
Jamin,
Akkub,
Shabbethai,
Hodiah,
Maaseiah,
Kelita,
Azariah,
Jozabad,
Hanan,
Pelaiah,
and
the
Levites made
the
law clear
to
the
people:
and
the
people kept
in
their places.
\VS{8}And
they
gave out
the
words
of
the
book
the
law
of
God, clearly,
and
gave
the
sense
of
it,
so
that
their
minds
were
able
to
take
it
in.
\VS{9}And
Nehemiah,
who
was
the Tirshatha,
and
Ezra,
the
priest
and
scribe,
and
the
Levites
who
were
the
teachers
of
the
people,
said
to
all
the
people,
This
day
is
holy
to
the
Lord
your
God;
let
there
be
no sorrow
or
weeping;
for
all
the
people
were
weeping
on
hearing
the
words
of
the
law.
\VS{10}Then
he
said
to
them,
Go
away
now,
and take
the fat
for
your
food
and
the
sweet
for
your
drink,
and
send
some
to
him
for whom
nothing
is
made
ready:
for
this
day
is
holy
to
our
Lord:
and
let
there
be
no grief
in
your hearts;
for
the
joy
of
the
Lord
is
your
strong
place.
\VS{11}So
the
Levites
made
all
the
people
quiet,
saying,
Be
quiet,
for
the
day
is
holy;
and
do
not give
way
to grief.
\VS{12}And
all
the
people went
away
to
take
food
and
drink,
and
to
send
food
to
others,
and
to
be glad,
because
the
words
which
were
said
to
them
had
been
made
clear.
\VS{13}And
on
the
second
day
the
heads
of
families
of
all
the
people
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites
came
together
to
Ezra
the
scribe,
to give attention
to
the
words
of
the
law.
\VS{14}And
they saw
that
it
was
recorded
in
the
law
that
the
Lord
had
given
orders
by
Moses,
that
the
children
of
Israel
were
to
have tents
for
their living-places
in
the
feast
of
the
seventh
month:
\VS{15}And
that
they
were
to
give
out
an
order,
and
make
it
public
in
all
their
towns
and
in
Jerusalem,
saying,
Go
out
to
the
mountain
and
get
olive
branches
and
branches
of field
olives
and
of
myrtle,
and
palm
branches
and
branches
of thick
trees,
to
make tents,
as
it
says
in
the book.
\VS{16}And
the
people
went
out
and
got
them
and
made
themselves tents,
every
one
on
the
roof
of
his
house,
and
in
the
open spaces
and
in
the
open
squares
of
the
house
of
God,
and
in
the wide
place
of
the water-doorway,
and
the wide
place
of
the doorway
of
Ephraim.
\VS{17}All
the
people
who
had
been
prisoners
and
had
come
back,
made tents
and
were
living
in
them:
for
from
the
time
of
Jeshua,
the
son
of
Nun,
till
that
day,
the
children
of
Israel
had
not
done
so.
And
there
was
very
great
joy.
\VS{18}And
day
by
day,
from
the
first
day
till
the
last,
he
was
reading
from
the
book
of
the
law
of
God.
And
they
kept
the
feast
for
seven
days:
and
on
the
eighth
day
there
was
a holy meeting,
as
it
is ordered
in
the
law.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
on
the twenty-fourth
day
of
this
month
the
children
of
Israel came
together, taking no food
and putting haircloth
and
dust
on
their bodies.
\VS{2}And
the
seed
of
Israel
made
themselves
separate
from
all
the
men
of
other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness
for
their
sins
and
the wrongdoing
of
their
fathers.
\VS{3}And
for
a
fourth
part
of
the
day, upright
in
their places,
they
were
reading
from
the
book
of
the
law
of
their
God;
and
for
a
fourth
part
of
the
day
they
were requesting forgiveness
and worshipping
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{4}Then
Jeshua,
and
Bani,
Kadmiel,
Shebaniah,
Bunni,
Sherebiah,
Bani,
and
Chenani took
their places
on
the steps
of
the
Levites,
crying
in
a
loud
voice
to
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{5}Then
the
Levites,
Jeshua,
and
Kadmiel,
Bani,
Hashabneiah,
Sherebiah,
Hodiah,
Shebaniah,
and
Pethahiah
said,
Get
up
and give
praise
to
the
Lord
your
God
for
ever
and
ever.
Praise
be
to
your
great
name which
is
lifted
up
high
over
all
blessing
and
praise.
\VS{6}You
are
the
Lord,
even
you
only;
you
have
made
heaven,
the
heaven
of
heavens
with
all
their
armies,
the
earth
and
all
things
in
it,
the
seas
and
everything
in
them;
and
you
keep
them
from destruction:
and
the
armies
of
heaven
are
your worshippers.
\VS{7}You
are
the
Lord,
the
God,
who
took
Abram
and
made
him
yours, guiding
him
from Ur
of
the
Chaldees,
and
gave
him
the
name
of
Abraham;
\VS{8}You saw
that
his
heart
was true
to
you,
and
made
an
agreement
with
him
to
give
the
land
of
the
Canaanite,
the
Hittite,
the
Amorite
and
the
Perizzite
and
the
Jebusite
and
the
Girgashite,
even
to
give
it
to
his
seed,
and
you
have done
what
you
said;
for righteousness
is
yours:
\VS{9}And
you
saw
the trouble
of
our
fathers
in
Egypt,
and
their
cry came
to
your ears
by
the Red
Sea;
\VS{10}And
you
did
signs
and
wonders
on
Pharaoh
and
all
his
servants
and
all
the
people
of
his
land;
for
you saw
how cruel
they
were
to
them.
So
you got
yourself
a
name
as
it
is
today.
\VS{11}By
you
the
sea
was parted
before
them,
so
that
they
went
through
the
sea
on
dry
land;
and
those who
went
after
them
went
down
into
the
deep,
like
a
stone
into great
waters.
\VS{12}And
you went before
them
by
day
in
a
pillar
of
cloud,
and
in
a
pillar
of
fire
by
night,
to
give
them
light
on
the
way
they
were
to go.
\VS{13}And
you
came
down
on
Mount
Sinai,
and
your voice
came
to
them
from
heaven,
giving
them
right
decisions
and
true
laws,
good
rules
and
orders:
\VS{14}And
you
gave
them word
of
your
holy
Sabbath,
and
gave
them
orders
and
rules
and
a
law,
by
the
hand
of
Moses
your
servant:
\VS{15}And
you
gave
them
bread
from
heaven
when
they
were
in need,
and
made
water
come
out
of
the
rock
for
their drink,
and
gave
them
orders
to
go
in
and
take
for
their heritage
the
land
which
your
hand
had
been
lifted
up
to
give
them.
\VS{16}But
they
and
our
fathers,
in
their pride,
made
their
necks stiff,
and
gave
no
attention
to
your
orders,
\VS{17}And
would
not
do
them,
and
gave
no
thought
to
the
wonders
you
had
done
among
them;
but
made
their
necks stiff,
and
turning
away
from
you,
made
a
captain
over
themselves
to
take
them
back
to
their prison
in Egypt:
but
you
are
a
God
of
forgiveness,
full
of grace
and pity,
slow
to
wrath
and
great
in mercy,
and
you
did
not
give
them
up.
\VS{18}Even
when
they
had
made
for themselves
an ox
of
metal,
and
said,
This
is
your
God
who
took
you
up
out
of
Egypt,
and
had
done
so
much
to
make
you angry;
\VS{19}Even
then,
in
your
great
mercy,
you
did
not
give
them
up
in
the waste land:
the
pillar
of
cloud still went
before
them
by
day,
guiding
them
on
their
way,
and
the
pillar
of
fire
by
night,
to
give
them
light,
and
make clear
the
way
they
were
to
go.
\VS{20}And
you
gave
your
good
spirit
to
be
their teacher,
and
did
not
keep
back
your
manna
from
their
mouths,
and
gave
them
water when
they
had need
of
it.
\VS{21}Truly,
for
forty
years
you
were
their support
in
the
waste land,
and
they
were
in
need
of
nothing;
their
clothing
did
not get
old
or
their
feet
become tired.
\VS{22}And
you
gave
them
kingdoms
and
peoples,
making distribution
to
them
in every part
of
the
land:
so
they
took
for
their heritage
the
land
of
Sihon,
even
the
land
of
the
king
of
Heshbon,
and
the
land
of
Og,
king
of
Bashan.
\VS{23}And
you
made
their
children
as great
in
number
as
the
stars
of
heaven,
and
took
them
into
the
land,
of
which
you
had
said
to
their
fathers
that
they
were
to
go
in
and
take
it
for themselves.
\VS{24}So
the
children
went
in
and
took
the
land,
and
you overcame
before
them
the
people
of
the
land,
the
Canaanites,
and
gave
them
up
into
their
hands,
with
their
kings
and
the
people
of
the
land,
so
that
they
might
do
with
them whatever
it
was
their
pleasure
to
do.
\VS{25}And
they
took walled
towns
and
a
fat
land,
and
became
the
owners
of
houses
full
of
all
good
things, water-holes
cut
in
the rock, vine-gardens
and olive-gardens
and
a wealth
of fruit-trees:
so
they
had
food
enough
and
became
fat,
and
had joy
in
the
good
you gave
them.
\VS{26}But
they
were hard-hearted,
and
went
against
your authority,
turning
their
backs
on
your
law,
and putting
to death
your
prophets,
who
gave witness
against
them
with
the purpose
of
turning
them
back
again
to
you,
and
they
did
much
to
make
you angry.
\VS{27}And
so
you
gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
their haters
who
were cruel
to
them:
and
in
the
time
of
their
trouble,
when
they
made
their prayer
to
you,
you
gave ear
to
them
from
heaven;
and
in
your
great
mercy
gave
them saviours,
who
made
them free
from
the
hands
of
their haters.
\VS{28}But
when
they
had
rest,
they
did
evil
again
before
you:
so
you
gave
them
into
the
hands
of
their haters,
who
had
rule
over
them:
but
when
they
came
back
and
made
their prayer
to
you,
you
gave ear
to
them
from
heaven;
again
and
again,
in
your
mercy,
you
gave
them salvation;
\VS{29}And
gave
witness
against
them
so
that
you
might
make
them
come
back
again
to
your
law:
but
their hearts
were lifted
up,
and
they
gave
no
attention
to
your
orders
and
went
against
your
decisions (which,
if
a
man
keeps
them,
will
be
life
to
him),
and
turning
their
backs
on
you,
made
their
necks stiff
and
did
not
give ear.
\VS{30}Year
after
year
you
put
up
with
them,
and
gave witness
against
them
by
your
spirit
through
your
prophets: still
they
did
not
give
ear:
and
so
you
gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
the
peoples
of
the
lands.
\VS{31}Even
then,
in
your
great
mercy,
you
did
not put
an
end
to
them
completely,
or give
them up;
for
you
are
a
God
of grace
and
mercy.
\VS{32}And
now,
our
God,
the
great,
the
strong,
the
God
who
is
to
be
feared,
who
keeps faith
and mercy,
let
not
all
this
trouble
seem
small
to
you,
which
has
come
on
us,
and
on
our
kings
and
our
rulers
and
on
our
priests
and
our
prophets
and
our
fathers
and
on
all
your
people
from
the
time
of
the
kings
of
Assyria
till
this
day.
\VS{33}But still,
you
have
been
in
the
right
in
everything which
has
come
on
us;
you
have
been
true
to
us,
but
we
have
done
evil:
\VS{34}And
our
kings,
our
rulers,
our
priests,
and
our
fathers
have
not
kept
your
law
or
given
attention
to
your
orders
and
your witness,
with
which
you
gave witness
against
them.
\VS{35}For
they
have
not
been
your
servants
in
their
kingdom,
and
in all
the
good
things
you
gave
them,
and
in
the
great
and fat
land
you
gave
them,
and
they
have
not
been
turned
away
from
their evil-doing.
\VS{36}Now,
today,
we
are
servants,
and
as
for
the
land
which
you
gave
to
our
fathers,
so
that
the
produce
of
it
and
the
good
might
be theirs,
see,
we
are
servants
in
it:
\VS{37}And
it
gives
much
increase
to
the
kings
whom
you
have
put
over
us
because
of
our
sins:
and
they
have power
over
our
bodies
and
over
our
cattle
at
their
pleasure,
and
we
are
in
great
trouble.
\VS{38}And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
those
who put
down
their names
were Nehemiah
the Tirshatha,
the son
of Hacaliah,
and Zedekiah,
\VS{2}Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
\VS{3}Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
\VS{4}Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
\VS{5}Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
\VS{6}Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
\VS{7}Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
\VS{8}Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were
the priests.
\VS{9}And
the Levites: by name, Jeshua,
the son
of Azaniah, Binnui,
of
the sons
of Henadad, Kadmiel,
\VS{10}And
their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
\VS{11}Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
\VS{12}Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
\VS{13}Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
\VS{14}The chiefs of
the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu,
Bani,
\VS{15}Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
\VS{16}Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
\VS{17}Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
\VS{18}Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
\VS{19}Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
\VS{20}Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
\VS{21}Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
\VS{22}Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
\VS{23}Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
\VS{24}Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
\VS{25}Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
\VS{26}And Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
\VS{27}Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
\VS{28}And
the rest of
the people,
the priests,
the Levites,
the door-keepers,
the music-makers,
the Nethinim,
and all those who had made themselves separate from
the peoples of
the lands, to keep
the law of God, their wives, their sons,
and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge
and wisdom;
\VS{29}They
were united
with
their brothers,
their
rulers,
and put themselves under
a curse
and
an oath,
to keep
their steps
in
the
way
of God's
law,
which
was given
by Moses,
the servant
of
God,
and
to keep
and
do
all
the orders
of
the Lord,
our Lord,
and
his decisions
and
his rules;
\VS{30}And
that
we
would not
give
our daughters
to
the peoples
of
the lands,
or
take
their daughters
for
our sons;
\VS{31}And
if
the
peoples
of
the
lands come
to do trade
in goods
or food
on
the Sabbath day,
that
we
would do
no trade
with
them
on
the Sabbath
or
on
a holy day:
and
that
in
the seventh year
we
would
take
no payment
from
any debtor.
\VS{32}And
we
made rules
for ourselves, taxing ourselves
a third
of
a shekel
every
year
for
the upkeep
of
the house
of
our
God;
\VS{33}For
the holy bread,
and
for
the
regular meal offering
and
the
regular burned offering
on
the Sabbaths
and
at
the new moon
and
the
fixed feasts,
and
for
the sin-offerings
to
take away
the sin
of Israel,
and
for all
the
work
of
the
house
of
our
God.
\VS{34}And
we,
the priests
and
the Levites
and
the people,
made selection,
by
the decision
of
the Lord,
of
those
who
were
to take
the wood
offering
into
the
house
of
God,
by
families
at
the
regular
times, year
by year,
to
be burned
on
the altar
of
the Lord
our
God,
as
it
is recorded
in
the law;
\VS{35}And
to
take
the first-fruits
of
our
land,
and
the first-fruits
of
every sort
of
tree,
year
by
year,
into
the
house
of
the
Lord;
\VS{36}As well
as
the
first
of
our sons
and
of
our cattle,
as
it
is recorded
in
the law,
and
the
first lambs
of
our herds
and
of
our flocks,
which
are
to
be taken
to
the
house
of
our
God,
to
the priests
who
are servants
in
the
house
of
our
God:
\VS{37}And
that we
would
take
the first
of
our rough meal,
and
our
lifted offerings,
and
the fruit
of every sort
of tree,
and wine
and oil,
to
the
priests,
to
the
rooms
of
the
house
of
our
God;
and
the tenth
of
the produce
of
our land
to
the Levites;
for
they,
the Levites,
take
a tenth
in all
the towns
of
our ploughed land.
\VS{38}And
the
priest,
the son
of Aaron,
is
to
be
with
the
Levites,
when
the
Levites
take
the tenths:
and
the
Levites
are
to
take
a
tenth
of
the tenths
into
the
house
of
our
God,
to
the
rooms,
into
the store-house;
\VS{39}For
the
children
of Israel
and
the
children
of
Levi
are
to
take
the
lifted
offering
of
the grain
and wine
and oil
into
the
rooms
where
the vessels
of
the holy
place
are,
together
with
the
priests
and
the door-keepers
and
the makers
of music:
and we
will
not
give
up caring
for
the
house
of
our
God.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
rulers
of
the
people
were
living
in
Jerusalem:
the
rest
of
the
people made selection,
by
the decision
of chance,
of
one
out
of
every
ten
to
be
living
in
Jerusalem,
the
holy
town;
the
other
nine
to
go
to
the
other
towns.
\VS{2}And
the
people gave
a
blessing
to
all
the
men
who
were freely
offering
to
take
up
their
places
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}Now
these
are
the
chiefs
of
the
divisions
of
the country
who
were
living
in
Jerusalem:
but
in
the
towns
of
Judah
everyone
was
living
on
his heritage
in
the
towns,
that
is,
Israel,
the
priests,
the
Levites,
the Nethinim,
and
the
children
of Solomon's
servants.
\VS{4}And
in
Jerusalem
there
were
living certain
of
the
children
of
Judah
and
of
Benjamin.
Of
the
children
of
Judah:
Athaiah,
the
son
of
Uzziah,
the
son
of
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Amariah,
the
son
of
Shephatiah,
the
son
of
Mahalalel,
of
the
children
of
Perez;
\VS{5}And
Maaseiah,
the
son
of
Baruch,
the
son
of
Col-hozeh,
the
son
of
Hazaiah,
the
son
of
Adaiah,
the
son
of
Joiarib,
the
son
of
Zechariah,
the
son
of
the Shilonite.
\VS{6}All
the
sons
of
Perez
living
in
Jerusalem
were
four
hundred
and sixty-eight
men
of good position.
\VS{7}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
Jeshaiah.
\VS{8}And
after
him
Gabbai, Sallai,
nine
hundred
and
twenty-eight.
\VS{9}And
Joel,
the
son
of
Zichri,
was
their
overseer;
and
Judah,
the
son
of
Hassenuah,
was
second
over
the
town.
\VS{10}Of
the
priests:
Jedaiah,
the
son
of
Joiarib,
Jachin,
\VS{11}Seraiah,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
the
son
of
Meshullam,
the
son
of
Zadok,
the
son
of
Meraioth,
the
son
of
Ahitub,
the
ruler
of
the
house
of
God,
\VS{12}And
their
brothers
who
did
the
work
of
the
house,
eight
hundred
and
twenty-two;
and
Adaiah,
the
son
of
Jeroham,
the
son
of
Pelaliah,
the
son
of
Amzi,
the
son
of
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Pashhur,
the
son
of
Malchijah,
\VS{13}And
his
brothers,
heads
of
families,
two
hundred
and
forty-two;
and
Amashsai,
the
son
of
Azarel,
the
son
of
Ahzai,
the
son
of
Meshillemoth,
the
son
of
Immer,
\VS{14}And
their
brothers,
men
of war,
a
hundred
and
twenty-eight;
and
their
overseer
was
Zabdiel,
the
son
of Haggedolim.
\VS{15}And
of
the
Levites:
Shemaiah,
the
son
of
Hasshub,
the
son
of
Azrikam,
the
son
of
Hashabiah,
the
son
of
Bunni,
\VS{16}And
Shabbethai
and
Jozabad,
of
the
chiefs
of
the
Levites,
who
were
responsible
for
the
outside
business
of
the
house
of
God;
\VS{17}And
Mattaniah,
the
son
of Mica,
the
son
of
Zabdi,
the
son
of
Asaph,
who
had
to
give
the
first note
of
the song
of
praise
in
prayer,
and
Bakbukiah,
the
second
among
his
brothers,
and
Abda,
the
son
of
Shammua,
the
son
of
Galal,
the
son
of
Jeduthun.
\VS{18}All
the
Levites
in
the
holy
town
were
two
hundred
and eighty-four.
\VS{19}In addition
the door-keepers,
Akkub,
Talmon,
and
their
brothers
who
kept
watch
at
the doors,
were
a
hundred
and seventy-two.
\VS{20}And
the
rest
of
Israel,
of
the
priests,
the
Levites,
were
in
all
the
towns
of
Judah,
every
one
in
his
heritage.
\VS{21}But
the Nethinim
were
living
in
the
Ophel;
and
Ziha
and
Gishpa
were
over
the Nethinim.
\VS{22}And
the
overseer
of
the
Levites
at
Jerusalem
was
Uzzi,
the
son
of
Bani,
the
son
of
Hashabiah,
the
son
of
Mattaniah,
the
son
of
Mica,
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
the music-makers,
who
was
over
the
business
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{23}For there
was
an
order
from
the
king
about
them
and
a regular amount
for
the music-makers,
for
their needs
day
by
day.
\VS{24}And
Pethahiah,
the
son
of
Meshezabel,
of
the
sons
of
Zerah,
the
son
of
Judah,
was
the king's servant
in
everything
to
do
with
the
people.
\VS{25}And
for
the daughter-towns
with
their
fields, some
of
the
men
of
Judah
were
living
in
Kiriath-arba
and its daughter-towns,
and
in
Dibon
and its daughter-towns,
and
in Jekabzeel
and its daughter-towns,
\VS{26}And in
Jeshua,
and in
Moladah,
and
Beth-pelet,
\VS{27}And
in
Hazar-shual,
and
in Beer-sheba
and its daughter-towns,
\VS{28}And
in
Ziklag,
and
in
Meconah
and its daughter-towns,
\VS{29}And in
En-rimmon,
and in
Zorah,
and in
Jarmuth,
\VS{30}Zanoah,
Adullam
and
their daughter-towns,
Lachish
and
its
fields,
Azekah
and
its daughter-towns.
So
they
were living
from Beer-sheba
to
the
valley
of
Hinnom.
\VS{31}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
were living
from
Geba,
at
Michmash
and
Aija,
and
at Beth-el
and its daughter-towns,
\VS{32}At
Anathoth,
Nob,
Ananiah,
\VS{33}Hazor,
Ramah,
Gittaim,
\VS{34}Hadid,
Zeboim,
Neballat,
\VS{35}Lod
and
Ono, the
valley
of expert workers.
\VS{36}And
of
the
Levites, certain
divisions
in
Judah
were joined
to
Benjamin.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
priests
and
the
Levites
who
went
up
with
Zerubbabel,
the
son
of
Shealtiel,
and
Jeshua:
Seraiah,
Jeremiah,
Ezra,
\VS{2}Amariah,
Malluch,
Hattush,
\VS{3}Shecaniah,
Rehum,
Meremoth,
\VS{4}Iddo,
Ginnethoi,
Abijah,
\VS{5}Mijamin,
Maadiah,
Bilgah,
\VS{6}Shemaiah,
and
Joiarib,
Jedaiah,
\VS{7}Sallu,
Amok,
Hilkiah,
Jedaiah.
These
were
the
chiefs
of
the
priests
and
of
their
brothers
in
the
days
of
Jeshua.
\VS{8}And
the
Levites:
Jeshua,
Binnui,
Kadmiel,
Sherebiah,
Judah,
and
Mattaniah,
who
was
over
the music-makers,
he
and
his
brothers.
\VS{9}And
Bakbukiah
and Unno,
their
brothers,
were
opposite
them
in
their watches.
\VS{10}And
Jeshua
was
the
father
of
Joiakim,
and
Joiakim
was
the
father
of
Eliashib,
and
Eliashib
was
the
father
of
Joiada,
\VS{11}And
Joiada
was
the
father
of
Jonathan,
and
Jonathan
was
the
father
of
Jaddua.
\VS{12}And
in
the
days
of
Joiakim
there
were
priests,
heads
of
families:
of
Seraiah,
Meraiah;
of
Jeremiah,
Hananiah;
\VS{13}Of
Ezra,
Meshullam; of
Amariah,
Jehohanan;
\VS{14}Of Malluchi,
Jonathan;
of
Shebaniah,
Joseph;
\VS{15}Of
Harim,
Adna; of
Meraioth,
Helkai;
\VS{16}Of
Iddo,
Zechariah;
of
Ginnethon,
Meshullam;
\VS{17}Of
Abijah,
Zichri; of
Miniamin, of Moadiah,
Piltai;
\VS{18}Of
Bilgah,
Shammua; of
Shemaiah,
Jehonathan;
\VS{19}And of
Joiarib,
Mattenai; of
Jedaiah,
Uzzi;
\VS{20}Of Sallai,
Kallai; of
Amok,
Eber;
\VS{21}Of
Hilkiah,
Hashabiah; of
Jedaiah,
Nethanel.
\VS{22}The
Levites
in
the
days
of
Eliashib,
Joiada,
and
Johanan,
and
Jaddua,
were listed
as
heads
of
families;
and
the
priests,
when
Darius
the
Persian
was
king.
\VS{23}The
sons
of
Levi,
heads
of
families,
were
recorded
in
the
book
of
the histories,
even
till
the
days
of
Johanan,
the
son
of
Eliashib.
\VS{24}And
the
chiefs
of
the
Levites:
Hashabiah,
Sherebiah,
and
Jeshua,
the
son
of
Kadmiel,
with
their
brothers
opposite
them,
to
give blessing
and
praise
as ordered
by
David,
the
man
of
God,
watch
against
watch.
\VS{25}Mattaniah,
and
Bakbukiah,
Obadiah,
Meshullam,
Talmon,
Akkub,
were door-keepers
keeping
the
watch
at
the store-houses
of
the doors.
\VS{26}These
were
in
the
days
of
Joiakim,
the
son
of
Jeshua,
the
son
of Jozadak,
and
in
the
days
of
Nehemiah
the ruler
and
of
Ezra
the
priest,
the
scribe.
\VS{27}And
when
the time
came
for
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
to
be
made holy,
they sent
for
the
Levites
out
of
all
their
places
to
come
to
Jerusalem,
to
keep
the feast
with
joy,
and
with
praise
and melody,
with brass
and corded
instruments
of
music.
\VS{28}And
the
sons
of
the music-makers came
together
from
the lowland
round
about
Jerusalem
and
from
the daughter-towns
of
the
Netophathites,
\VS{29}And
from Beth-gilgal
and
from
the
fields
of
Geba
and
Azmaveth:
for
the music-makers
had
made daughter-towns
for
themselves
round
about
Jerusalem.
\VS{30}And
the
priests
and
the
Levites made
themselves
clean;
and
they made
the
people
clean,
and
the doorways
and
the
wall.
\VS{31}Then
I
made
the
rulers
of
Judah
come
up
on
the
wall,
and
I
put
in
position
two
great bands
of
them
who gave
praise, walking
in ordered lines;
one
went
to
the
right
on
the
wall,
in
the direction
of
the doorway
where
the waste
was
put;
\VS{32}And
after
them went
Hoshaiah
and
half
of
the
rulers
of
Judah,
\VS{33}And
Azariah,
Ezra,
and
Meshullam,
\VS{34}Judah
and
Benjamin
and
Shemaiah
and
Jeremiah,
\VS{35}And certain
of
the priests'
sons
with wind instruments;
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Shemaiah,
the
son
of
Mattaniah,
the
son
of
Micaiah,
the
son
of
Zaccur,
the
son
of
Asaph,
\VS{36}And
his
brothers,
Shemaiah,
and
Azarel,
Milalai,
Gilalai,
Maai,
Nethanel
and
Judah,
Hanani,
with
the music-instruments
of
David,
the
man
of
God;
and
Ezra
the
scribe
was
at
their
head;
\VS{37}And
by
the doorway
of
the fountain
and
straight
in
front
of
them,
they
went
up
by
the
steps
of
the
town
of
David,
at
the
slope
up
of
the
wall,
over
the
house
of
David,
as
far
as
the water-doorway
to
the
east.
\VS{38}And
the
other band
of
those
who gave
praise
went
to
the
left,
and
I
went
after
them
with
half
the
people,
on
the
wall,
over
the
tower
of
the
ovens,
as
far
as
the
wide
wall;
\VS{39}And
over
the doorway
of
Ephraim
and
by
the
old door
and
the
fish door
and
the
tower
of
Hananel
and
the
tower
of Hammeah,
as
far
as
the
sheep door:
and
at
the doorway
of
the watchmen
they came
to
a
stop.
\VS{40}So
the
two bands
of
those
who gave
praise
took
up
their positions
in
the
house
of
God,
and
I
and
half
of
the chiefs
with
me:
\VS{41}And
the
priests;
Eliakim,
Maaseiah,
Miniamin,
Micaiah,
Elioenai,
Zechariah,
and
Hananiah,
with wind instruments;
\VS{42}And
Maaseiah
and
Shemaiah
and
Eleazar
and
Uzzi
and
Jehohanan
and
Malchijah
and
Elam
and
Ezer.
And
the makers
of melody
made
their voices loud,
with
Jezrahiah
their
overseer.
\VS{43}And
on
that
day
they
made
great
offerings
and
were
glad;
for
God
had
made
them
glad
with
great
joy;
and
the
women
and
the
children
were
glad
with
them:
so
that
the
joy
of
Jerusalem came
to
the ears
of
those
who
were
far
off.
\VS{44}And
on
that
day
certain
men
were
put
over
the rooms
where
the things
which
had
been given
were
stored,
for
the lifted
offerings
and
the first-fruits
and
the tenths,
and
to
take
into
them
the amounts,
from
the
fields
of
every
town,
fixed
by
the
law
for
the
priests
and
the
Levites:
for
Judah
was glad
on
account
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites
who
were
in
their places.
\VS{45}And
they
kept
the
watch
of
their
God,
and
were responsible
for making
things
clean,
and so
did
the music-makers
and
the door-keepers,
as
it
was ordered
by
David
and
Solomon
his
son.
\VS{46}For
in
the
days
of
David
and
Asaph
in
the past,
there
was
a master
of
the
music,
and
songs
of blessing
and
praise
to
God.
\VS{47}And
all
Israel
in
the
days
of
Zerubbabel
and
in
the
days
of
Nehemiah
gave
what
was needed
by
the music-makers
and
the door-keepers
day
by
day:
and
they
made
the
offerings
holy
for
the
Levites;
and
the
Levites
did
the
same
for
the
sons
of
Aaron.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}On
that
day
there
was
a
reading
from
the
book
of
Moses
in
the
hearing
of
the
people;
and
they saw
that
it said
in
the
book
that
no
Ammonite
or
Moabite
might
ever
come
into
the meeting
of
God;
\VS{2}Because
they
did
not
give
the
children
of
Israel
bread
and
water
when
they
came
to
them,
but got
Balaam
to put
a
curse
on
them:
though
the
curse
was
turned
into
a
blessing
by
our
God.
\VS{3}So
after
hearing
the
law,
they
took
out
of
Israel
all
the mixed
people.
\VS{4}Now
before
this,
Eliashib
the
priest,
who
had been
placed
over
the
rooms
of
the
house
of
our
God,
being
a friend
of
Tobiah,
\VS{5}Had
made ready
for
him
a
great
room,
where
at
one
time
they
kept
the
meal
offerings,
the perfume,
and
the
vessels
and
the tenths
of
the
grain
and
wine
and
oil
which
were
given
by order
to
the
Levites
and
the music-makers
and
the door-keepers,
and
the lifted
offerings
for
the
priests.
\VS{6}But
all
this
time
I
was
not
at
Jerusalem:
for
in
the thirty-second
year
of
Artaxerxes,
king
of
Babylon,
I
went
to
the
king;
and
after
some
days,
I got
the
king
to
let
me
go,
\VS{7}And
I
came
to
Jerusalem;
and
it
was clear
to
me
what
evil
Eliashib
had
done
for
Tobiah,
in
making ready
for
him
a
room
in
the
buildings
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{8}And
it
was
evil
in
my eyes:
so
I
had
all Tobiah's
things put
out
of
the
room.
\VS{9}Then
I
gave
orders,
and
they
made
the
rooms
clean:
and
I
put
back
in
them
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
God,
with
the
meal
offerings
and
the perfume.
\VS{10}And
I saw
that
the
Levites
had
not
been
given
what
was needed
for
their support;
so
that
the
Levites
and
the music-makers,
who
did
the
work,
had
gone
away,
everyone
to
his
field.
\VS{11}Then
I made protests
to
the chiefs,
and
said,
Why
has
the
house
of
God been given
up?
And
I got
them
together
and put
them
in
their
places.
\VS{12}Then
all
Judah
came
with
the
tenth
part
of
the
grain
and
wine
and
oil
and
put
it
into
the store-houses.
\VS{13}And
I made controllers
over
the store-houses,
Shelemiah
the
priest
and
Zadok
the
scribe,
and
of
the
Levites,
Pedaiah:
and
with
them
was
Hanan,
the
son
of
Zaccur
the
son
of
Mattaniah:
they
were
taken
to
be true
men
and
their business
was
the distribution
of these things
to
their
brothers.
\VS{14}Keep
me
in
mind,
O
my
God,
in
connection
with
this,
and
do
not
let
the good
which
I
have
done
for
the
house
of
my
God
and
its worship go
from
your memory completely.
\VS{15}In
those
days,
I
saw
in
Judah
some
who
were crushing
grapes
on
the
Sabbath,
and getting
in
grain
and
putting
it
on asses;
as
well
as
wine
and
grapes
and
figs
and
all sorts
of goods
which
they
took
into
Jerusalem
on
the
Sabbath
day:
and
I
gave witness
against
them
on
the
day
when
they
were marketing food.
\VS{16}And
there
were
men
of
Tyre
there,
who
came
with
fish
and
all sorts
of goods, trading
with
the
children
of
Judah
and
in
Jerusalem
on
the
Sabbath.
\VS{17}Then
I
made protests
to
the chiefs
of
Judah,
and
said
to
them,
What
is
this
evil
which
you
are
doing,
not keeping
the
Sabbath
day holy?
\VS{18}Did
not
your
fathers
do
the
same,
and
did
not
our
God send
all
this
evil
on
us
and
on
this
town?
but
you
are
causing
more
wrath
to
come
on
Israel
by
not keeping
the
Sabbath holy.
\VS{19}And
so,
when
the streets
of
Jerusalem
were getting
dark
before
the
Sabbath,
I
gave
orders
for
the
doors
to
be
shut
and
not
to
be
open
again
till
after
the
Sabbath:
and
I
put
some
of
my
servants
by
the
door
so
that
nothing
might
be
taken
in
on
the
Sabbath
day.
\VS{20}So
the
traders
in
all sorts
of goods
took
their night's rest
outside
Jerusalem
once
or
twice.
\VS{21}Then
I
gave witness
against
them
and
said,
Why
are
you waiting
all night
by
the
wall?
if
you
do
so
again
I
will
have
you taken prisoners.
From
that
time
they
did
not
come
again
on
the
Sabbath.
\VS{22}And
I
gave
the
Levites
orders
to
make
themselves
clean
and
come
and
keep
the doors
and
make
the
Sabbath
holy.
Keep
this
in
mind
to
my credit,
O
my
God,
and
have mercy
on
me,
for
great
is
your mercy.
\VS{23}And
in
those
days
I
saw
the
Jews
who
were
married
to
women
of
Ashdod
and
Ammon
and
Moab:
\VS{24}And
their
children
were
talking
half
in
the
language
of
Ashdod;
they
had
no knowledge
of
the Jews'
language,
but
made use
of
the
language
of
the
two
peoples.
\VS{25}And
I
took
up
the
cause
against
them,
cursing
them
and
giving
blows
to
some
of
them
and pulling
out
their
hair;
and
I
made
them
take
an
oath
by
God, saying,
You
are
not
to
give
your
daughters
to
their
sons
or
take
their
daughters
for
your
sons
or
for
yourselves.
\VS{26}Was
it
not
in
these
things
that
Solomon,
king
of
Israel,
did
wrong?
among
a number
of
nations
there
was
no
king
like
him,
and
he
was dear
to
his
God,
and
God
made
him
king
over
all
Israel:
but
even
he
was
made
to
do evil
by strange
women.
\VS{27}Are
we
then without protest
to let
you
do
all
this
great
evil, sinning
against
our
God
by taking strange
women
for
your
wives?
\VS{28}And
one
of
the
sons
of
Joiada,
the
son
of
Eliashib,
the
chief
priest,
was
son-in-law
to
Sanballat
the
Horonite:
so
I sent
him
away
from
me.
\VS{29}Keep
them
in
mind,
O
my
God,
because
they
have
put shame
on
the priests' name
and
on
the
agreement
of
the priests
and
the
Levites.
\VS{30}So I
made
them
clean
from
all
strange
people,
and
had regular watches
fixed
for
the
priests
and
for
the
Levites,
everyone
in
his
work;
\VS{31}And
for
the
wood
offering,
at
fixed
times,
and
for
the
first
fruits.
Keep
me
in
mind,
O
my
God,
for
good.
\par }