A register of those who B. C. about 536. | Or, Jora. Or, Gibbar. II Or, Azmaveth. || Or, Kirjatharim. e See ver. 12. f1 Chr. 24. 7. g 1 Chr. 24. 14. h See 1 Chr. 9. 12. & 24. 9. i 1 Chr. 24. 8. || Or, Hodaviah, Ezra 2. 40; or, Judah, Ezra 3. 9. Il Or, Siaha. NEHEMIAH. 24 The children of "Hariph, a hundred and twelve. 25 The children of "Gibeon, ninety and five. 26 The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight. 27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight. 28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two. 29 The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three. returned from Babylon. 30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, Harsha, six hundred twenty and one. 55 The children of Barkos, the 31 The men of Michmas, a hun- children of Sisera, the children of 42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen. 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four. 44 The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred forty and eight. 45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred thirty and eight. 46 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth, 47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, 48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Or, Shamlai. Shalmai, 49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, 61 And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they Or, pedi were of Israel. 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two. 63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name. 64 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. gree. 65 And the Tirshatha said unto Or, the ge ernor, ch. 8. 9. them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. 66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, 67 Besides their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two The law explained. NEHEMIAH. hundred forty and five singing men 68 Their horses, seven hundred thir- The people comforted. B. C. about 445. Judg. 3. 20. g 1 Cor. 14. 16. above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people 'stood up: 6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with liftingh Lam. 3. 41. 69 Their camels, four hundred thir-up their hands: and they bowed ty and five six thousand seven hun- their heads, and worshipped the LORD dred and twenty asses. with their faces to the ground. 70 ¶ And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. 71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver. 72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments. 73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities. CHAPTER VIII. The public reading and expounding of the law. 9 The 1 Tim. 2. 8. i Ex. 4. 31. & 12. 27. 2 Chr. 20. 18. 7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to under- Lev. 10. 11. stand the law: and the people stood in their place. Deut. 33. 10. 2 Chr. 17. 7, 8, 9. Mal. 2.7. 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand 1 Ezra 2. 63. the reading. ch. 7. 65. & 10. 1. ernor. ver. 8. 9 And Nehemiah, which is the Or, the gov Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught 2 Chr. 35. 3. the people, said unto all the people, "This day is holy unto the LORD your God; ° mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. n Lev. 23. 24. Num. 29. 1. o Deut. 16. 14, 15. Ecc. 3. 4. 22. Rev. 11. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, Pand send portions unto them for P Esth. 9. 19, whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. 11 So the Levites stilled all the AND all the people gathered people, saying, Hold your peace, 2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 10. 12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great a ver. 10. mirth, because they had 'understood r ver. 7, 8. the words that were declared unto them. 13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the Or, that they might instruct in the words of the law. 3 And he read therein before the 4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon 5 And Ezra opened the book in the *sight of all the people; for he was hand of. 14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel + Heb, by the should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: 15 And that they should publisht Lev. 23. 4. and proclaim in all their cities, and "in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, x Lev. 23. 40. and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. u Deut. 16. 16. 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of y Deut. 22. 8. The fasting of the people. B. C. about 445. z ch. 12. 37. a 2 Kings 14. ch. 12. 13. 39. NEHEMIAH. his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again, out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel b 2 Chr. 30. 21. done so. b And there was very great gladness. 18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the Heb. a re- eighth day was a solemn assembly, daccording unto the manner. c Deut. 31. 10, &C. straint. d Lev. 23. 36. Num. 29. 35. 445. a ch. 8. 2. b Josh. 7. 6. 1 Sam. 4. 12. 2 Sam. 1. 2. Job 2. 12. c Ezra 10. 11. ch. 13. 3, 30. CHAPTER IX. The solemn fast, and confession of the people, 4 The prayer and confession of the Levites. 38 They make a covenant. in the twenty and fourth The prayer of the Levites. B. C. 445. with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and Phast performed thy P Josh. 23. 14. words; for thou art righteous: 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the Ex. 15. 5, 10. mighty waters. 12 Moreover thou leddest them in Ex. 13. 21. the day by a cloudy pillar; and in Nday of this month the children the night by a pillar of fire, to give b of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them. 2 And the seed of Israel separated +Heb. strange themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. children. d ch. 8. 7, 8. I Or, scaffold. 3 And they stood up in their place, and dread in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. 4 T Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Peth-ments, ahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: 1 Chr. 29. 13. and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. i 17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art tat God ready to pardon, 'gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. 18 Yea, m when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; Ps. 106. 6. h Deut. Sl. 27. 2 Kings 17. 14. Chr. 30. 8. Jer. 19. 15. Ps. 73. 11, 42, 45. Num. 14. 4. of pardons. Ps. 106. 45. 19 Yet thou in thy " manifold mercies ver. forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire J o Ex. 13. 21, 22 Num. 14. 14. 1 Cor. 10. 1. The prayer of the Levites. B. C. 445. Num. 11. 17. 1. 53. 11. Ex. 16. 15. Josh. 5. 12. Ex. 17. 6. NEHEMIAH. God's goodness to Israel. by night, to shew them light, and thou mightest bring them again unto the way wherein they should go. thy law yet they "dealt proudly, 20 Thou gavest also thy good and hearkened not unto thy comSpirit to instruct them, and with- mandments, but sinned against thy heldest not thy manna from their judgments, which if a man do, he mouth, and gavest them 'water for shall live in them; and withdrew their thirst. the shoulder, and hardened their 21 Yea, forty years didst thou sus-neck, and would not hear. tain them in the wilderness, so that Dent &&& they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled Deut. 2. 7. 2.5. not. B. C. 445. n ver. 16. + Heb. they gave a withdrawing shoulder, Zech. 7. 11. + Heb. protract over them. hand of thy prophets. 30 Yet many years didst thou + forbear them, and testifiedst Pagainst them by thy Spirit in thy prophets: Heb. in the yet would they not give ear: there22 Moreover thou gavest them king-fore gavest thou them into the hand doms and nations, and didst divide of the people of the lands. them into corners: so they possessed Nam 21.21, the land of "Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. o Lev. 18. 5. 31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly p2 Kings 17. consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. 13. 2 Chr. 36. 15. Jer. 7. 25. & 25. 4. q See Acts 7. 51. 1 Pet. 1. 11. 2 Pet. 1. 21. r Is. 5. 5. & 42. 24. ness. 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the "mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little + Heb. wearibefore thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. 33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: 34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. 35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great ver. 25. goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. 36 Behold, we are servants this Deut. 28. 48. day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it : 37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have 'dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. 38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it. The people covenant B. C. 445. ⚫ See ch. 12. 1-21. d See Ezra 2. 3, &c. 8, &c. cl. 7. 2 NEHEMIAH. Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah, 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests. 9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; 10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah, 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu. 14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani, 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, 18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, 24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, 27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. 28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having underg Deut. 29. 12, standing; e Ezra 2. SG43. f Ezra 9. 1. & 10. 11, 12, 19. ch. 13. 3. 14. ch. 5. 12, 13. Ps. 119. 106. h2 Kings 23. 3. 2 Chr. 34. 31. 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk + Heb. by the in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; hand of. to walk in God's law. 37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and "the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. 34. 26. Lev. 19.23. Num. 18. 12. Deu 26. 2. Ex. 15. 2, 12, 13. Lev. 27. 26, 27. Num 18. 15, 16. ↑ Lev. 28. 17 Num. 15. 19. & 18. 12, &c. Deut. 18. 4. & 26. 2. " Lev. 27.90. Num. 18. 21, &c. x Num. 18. Æ. 2 Chr. S1. 11. 38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the y 1 Chr. 9. 26. chambers, into the treasure-house. 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi * shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers : a and we ach. IS. 10, 11. will not forsake the house of our God. CHAPTER XI. The rulers and the tenth part of the people dwell at Jerusalem. 3 A catalogue of their names. 20 The residue dwell in other cities. at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities. ND the rulers of the people dwelt b z Deut. 12, 6, 11. 2 Chr. 31.) 12 ch. 13.12 a ver. 18. Matt. 4.5 & 27.55. 2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered them- Judg. 5. 9. selves to dwell at Jerusalem. 3. 3 Now these are the chief of the 1 Chr. 9. 2, province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every |