The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
The Book of Nehemiah 1-9
1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of
Hachaliah. And it came to pass
in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year,
as I was in Shushan the
palace, 1:2 That Hanani, one of my brethren,
came, he and certain men
of Judah; and I asked them concerning the
Jews that had escaped, which
were left of the captivity, and concerning
Jerusalem.
1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that
are left of the captivity
there in the province are in great
affliction and reproach: the wall
of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the
gates thereof are burned
with fire.
1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these
words, that I sat down and
wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted,
and prayed before the God
of heaven, 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O
LORD God of heaven, the
great and terrible God, that keepeth
covenant and mercy for them that
love him and observe his commandments: 1:6
Let thine ear now be
attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou
mayest hear the prayer of
thy servant, which I pray before thee now,
day and night, for the
children of Israel thy servants, and confess
the sins of the children
of Israel, which we have sinned against
thee: both I and my father's
house have sinned.
1:7 We have dealt very corruptly against
thee, and have not kept the
commandments, nor the statutes, nor the
judgments, which thou
commandedst thy servant Moses.
1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that
thou commandedst thy
servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I
will scatter you abroad
among the nations: 1:9 But if ye turn unto
me, and keep my
commandments, and do them; though there were
of you cast out unto the
uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I
gather them from thence, and
will bring them unto the place that I have
chosen to set my name
there.
1:10 Now these are thy servants and thy
people, whom thou hast
redeemed by thy great power, and by thy
strong hand.
1:11 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine
ear be attentive to the
prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of
thy servants, who desire
to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee,
thy servant this day, and
grant him mercy in the sight of this man.
For I was the king's
cupbearer.
2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan,
in the twentieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before
him: and I took up the wine,
and gave it unto the king. Now I had not
been beforetime sad in his
presence.
2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is
thy countenance sad,
seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing
else but sorrow of heart.
Then I was very sore afraid, 2:3 And said
unto the king, Let the king
live for ever: why should not my countenance
be sad, when the city,
the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth
waste, and the gates
thereof are consumed with fire? 2:4 Then the
king said unto me, For
what dost thou make request? So I prayed to
the God of heaven.
2:5 And I said unto the king, If it please
the king, and if thy
servant have found favour in thy sight, that
thou wouldest send me
unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers'
sepulchres, that I may build
it.
2:6 And the king said unto me, (the queen
also sitting by him,) For
how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt
thou return? So it
pleased the king to send me; and I set him a
time.
2:7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it
please the king, let letters
be given me to the governors beyond the
river, that they may convey me
over till I come into Judah; 2:8 And a
letter unto Asaph the keeper of
the king's forest, that he may give me
timber to make beams for the
gates of the palace which appertained to the
house, and for the wall
of the city, and for the house that I shall
enter into. And the king
granted me, according to the good hand of my
God upon me.
2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the
river, and gave them the
king's letters. Now the king had sent
captains of the army and
horsemen with me.
2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah
the servant, the
Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them
exceedingly that there was come
a man to seek the welfare of the children of
Israel.
2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there
three days.
2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some
few men with me; neither
told I any man what my God had put in my
heart to do at Jerusalem:
neither was there any beast with me, save
the beast that I rode upon.
2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of
the valley, even before
the dragon well, and to the dung port, and
viewed the walls of
Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the
gates thereof were consumed
with fire.
2:14 Then I went on to the gate of the
fountain, and to the king's
pool: but there was no place for the beast
that was under me to pass.
2:15 Then went I up in the night by the
brook, and viewed the wall,
and turned back, and entered by the gate of
the valley, and so
returned.
2:16 And the rulers knew not whither I went,
or what I did; neither
had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the
priests, nor to the
nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest
that did the work.
2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the
distress that we are in, how
Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof
are burned with fire:
come, and let us build up the wall of
Jerusalem, that we be no more a
reproach.
2:18 Then I told them of the hand of my God
which was good upon me; as
also the king's words that he had spoken
unto me. And they said, Let
us rise up and build. So they strengthened
their hands for this good
work.
2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and
Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it,
they laughed us to scorn,
and despised us, and said, What is this
thing that ye do? will ye
rebel against the king? 2:20 Then answered I
them, and said unto
them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us;
therefore we his servants
will arise and build: but ye have no
portion, nor right, nor memorial,
in Jerusalem.
3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up
with his brethren the
priests, and they builded the sheep gate;
they sanctified it, and set
up the doors of it; even unto the tower of
Meah they sanctified it,
unto the tower of Hananeel.
3:2 And next unto him builded the men of
Jericho. And next to them
builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
3:3 But the fish gate did the sons of
Hassenaah build, who also laid
the beams thereof, and set up the doors
thereof, the locks thereof,
and the bars thereof.
3:4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the
son of Urijah, the son of
Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam
the son of Berechiah, the
son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them
repaired Zadok the son of
Baana.
3:5 And next unto them the Tekoites
repaired; but their nobles put not
their necks to the work of their LORD.
3:6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada
the son of Paseah, and
Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid
the beams thereof, and set
up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof,
and the bars thereof.
3:7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the
Gibeonite, and Jadon the
Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of
Mizpah, unto the throne of the
governor on this side the river.
3:8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of
Harhaiah, of the
goldsmiths.
Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son
of one of the
apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem
unto the broad wall.
3:9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the
son of Hur, the ruler of
the half part of Jerusalem.
3:10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the
son of Harumaph, even
over against his house. And next unto him
repaired Hattush the son of
Hashabniah.
3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub
the son of Pahathmoab,
repaired the other piece, and the tower of
the furnaces.
3:12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the
son of Halohesh, the ruler
of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his
daughters.
3:13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the
inhabitants of Zanoah;
they built it, and set up the doors thereof,
the locks thereof, and
the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on
the wall unto the dung
gate.
3:14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the
son of Rechab, the ruler
of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and
set up the doors thereof,
the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
3:15 But the gate of the fountain repaired
Shallun the son of
Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he
built it, and covered it,
and set up the doors thereof, the locks
thereof, and the bars thereof,
and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the
king's garden, and unto the
stairs that go down from the city of David.
3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of
Azbuk, the ruler of the
half part of Bethzur, unto the place over
against the sepulchres of
David, and to the pool that was made, and
unto the house of the
mighty.
3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum
the son of Bani. Next unto
him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the
half part of Keilah, in his
part.
3:18 After him repaired their brethren,
Bavai the son of Henadad, the
ruler of the half part of Keilah.
3:19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son
of Jeshua, the ruler of
Mizpah, another piece over against the going
up to the armoury at the
turning of the wall.
3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai
earnestly repaired the other
piece, from the turning of the wall unto the
door of the house of
Eliashib the high priest.
3:21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of
Urijah the son of Koz
another piece, from the door of the house of
Eliashib even to the end
of the house of Eliashib.
3:22 And after him repaired the priests, the
men of the plain.
3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub
over against their house.
After him repaired Azariah the son of
Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by
his house.
3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of
Henadad another piece, from
the house of Azariah unto the turning of the
wall, even unto the
corner.
3:25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the
turning of the wall, and
the tower which lieth out from the king's
high house, that was by the
court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the
son of Parosh.
3:26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel,
unto the place over
against the water gate toward the east, and
the tower that lieth out.
3:27 After them the Tekoites repaired
another piece, over against the
great tower that lieth out, even unto the
wall of Ophel.
3:28 From above the horse gate repaired the
priests, every one over
against his house.
3:29 After them repaired Zadok the son of
Immer over against his
house.
After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of
Shechaniah, the keeper of
the east gate.
3:30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of
Shelemiah, and Hanun the
sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After
him repaired Meshullam the
son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
3:31 After him repaired Malchiah the
goldsmith's son unto the place of
the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over
against the gate Miphkad,
and to the going up of the corner.
3:32 And between the going up of the corner
unto the sheep gate
repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat
heard that we builded the
wall, he was wroth, and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews.
4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the
army of Samaria, and
said, What do these feeble Jews? will they
fortify themselves? will
they sacrifice? will they make an end in a
day? will they revive the
stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which
are burned? 4:3 Now
Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said,
Even that which they
build, if a fox go up, he shall even break
down their stone wall.
4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised:
and turn their reproach upon
their own head, and give them for a prey in
the land of captivity: 4:5
And cover not their iniquity, and let not
their sin be blotted out
from before thee: for they have provoked
thee to anger before the
builders.
4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall
was joined together unto
the half thereof: for the people had a mind
to work.
4:7 But it came to pass, that when
Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the
Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the
Ashdodites, heard that the walls
of Jerusalem were made up, and that the
breaches began to be stopped,
then they were very wroth, 4:8 And conspired
all of them together to
come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to
hinder it.
4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our
God, and set a watch
against them day and night, because of them.
4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the
bearers of burdens is
decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that
we are not able to build
the wall.
4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall
not know, neither see, till
we come in the midst among them, and slay
them, and cause the work to
cease.
4:12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews
which dwelt by them came,
they said unto us ten times, From all places
whence ye shall return
unto us they will be upon you.
4:13 Therefore set I in the lower places
behind the wall, and on the
higher places, I even set the people after
their families with their
swords, their spears, and their bows.
4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said
unto the nobles, and to the
rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be
not ye afraid of them:
remember the LORD, which is great and
terrible, and fight for your
brethren, your sons, and your daughters,
your wives, and your houses.
4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies
heard that it was known
unto us, and God had brought their counsel
to nought, that we returned
all of us to the wall, every one unto his
work.
4:16 And it came to pass from that time
forth, that the half of my
servants wrought in the work, and the other
half of them held both the
spears, the shields, and the bows, and the
habergeons; and the rulers
were behind all the house of Judah.
4:17 They which builded on the wall, and
they that bare burdens, with
those that laded, every one with one of his
hands wrought in the work,
and with the other hand held a weapon.
4:18 For the builders, every one had his
sword girded by his side, and
so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet
was by me.
4:19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the
rulers, and to the rest of
the people, The work is great and large, and
we are separated upon the
wall, one far from another.
4:20 In what place therefore ye hear the
sound of the trumpet, resort
ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for
us.
4:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of
them held the spears from
the rising of the morning till the stars
appeared.
4:22 Likewise at the same time said I unto
the people, Let every one
with his servant lodge within Jerusalem,
that in the night they may be
a guard to us, and labour on the day.
4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my
servants, nor the men of
the guard which followed me, none of us put
off our clothes, saving
that every one put them off for washing.
5:1 And there was a great cry of the people
and of their wives against
their brethren the Jews.
5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons,
and our daughters, are
many: therefore we take up corn for them,
that we may eat, and live.
5:3 Some also there were that said, We have
mortgaged our lands,
vineyards, and houses, that we might buy
corn, because of the dearth.
5:4 There were also that said, We have
borrowed money for the king's
tribute, and that upon our lands and
vineyards.
5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our
brethren, our children as
their children: and, lo, we bring into
bondage our sons and our
daughters to be servants, and some of our
daughters are brought unto
bondage already: neither is it in our power
to redeem them; for other
men have our lands and vineyards.
5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their
cry and these words.
5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I
rebuked the nobles, and the
rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury,
every one of his brother.
And I set a great assembly against them.
5:8 And I said unto them, We after our
ability have redeemed our
brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the
heathen; and will ye even
sell your brethren? or shall they be sold
unto us? Then held they
their peace, and found nothing to answer.
5:9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do:
ought ye not to walk in
the fear of our God because of the reproach
of the heathen our
enemies? 5:10 I likewise, and my brethren,
and my servants, might
exact of them money and corn: I pray you,
let us leave off this usury.
5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this
day, their lands, their
vineyards, their oliveyards, and their
houses, also the hundredth part
of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and
the oil, that ye exact of
them.
5:12 Then said they, We will restore them,
and will require nothing of
them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I
called the priests, and
took an oath of them, that they should do
according to this promise.
5:13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God
shake out every man from
his house, and from his labour, that
performeth not this promise, even
thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all
the congregation said,
Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people
did according to this
promise.
5:14 Moreover from the time that I was
appointed to be their governor
in the land of Judah, from the twentieth
year even unto the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that
is, twelve years, I and my
brethren have not eaten the bread of the
governor.
5:15 But the former governors that had been
before me were chargeable
unto the people, and had taken of them bread
and wine, beside forty
shekels of silver; yea, even their servants
bare rule over the people:
but so did not I, because of the fear of
God.
5:16 Yea, also I continued in the work of
this wall, neither bought we
any land: and all my servants were gathered
thither unto the work.
5:17 Moreover there were at my table an
hundred and fifty of the Jews
and rulers, beside those that came unto us
from among the heathen that
are about us.
5:18 Now that which was prepared for me
daily was one ox and six
choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for
me, and once in ten days
store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this
required not I the bread
of the governor, because the bondage was
heavy upon this people.
5:19 Think upon me, my God, for good,
according to all that I have
done for this people.
6:1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and
Tobiah, and Geshem the
Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard
that I had builded the
wall, and that there was no breach left
therein; (though at that time
I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
6:2 That Sanballat and
Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us
meet together in some one of
the villages in the plain of Ono. But they
thought to do me mischief.
6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying,
I am doing a great work,
so that I cannot come down: why should the
work cease, whilst I leave
it, and come down to you? 6:4 Yet they sent
unto me four times after
this sort; and I answered them after the
same manner.
6:5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me
in like manner the fifth
time with an open letter in his hand; 6:6
Wherein was written, It is
reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith
it, that thou and the
Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou
buildest the wall, that thou
mayest be their king, according to these
words.
6:7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to
preach of thee at
Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah:
and now shall it be
reported to the king according to these
words. Come now therefore, and
let us take counsel together.
6:8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are
no such things done as
thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of
thine own heart.
6:9 For they all made us afraid, saying,
Their hands shall be weakened
from the work, that it be not done. Now
therefore, O God, strengthen
my hands.
6:10 Afterward I came unto the house of
Shemaiah the son of Delaiah
the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and
he said, Let us meet
together in the house of God, within the
temple, and let us shut the
doors of the temple: for they will come to
slay thee; yea, in the
night will they come to slay thee.
6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I
flee? and who is there, that,
being as I am, would go into the temple to
save his life? I will not
go in.
6:12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not
sent him; but that he
pronounced this prophecy against me: for
Tobiah and Sanballat had
hired him.
6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should
be afraid, and do so, and
sin, and that they might have matter for an
evil report, that they
might reproach me.
6:14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and
Sanballat according to these
their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah,
and the rest of the
prophets, that would have put me in fear.
6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty
and fifth day of the month
Elul, in fifty and two days.
6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our
enemies heard thereof, and
all the heathen that were about us saw these
things, they were much
cast down in their own eyes: for they
perceived that this work was
wrought of our God.
6:17 Moreover in those days the nobles of
Judah sent many letters unto
Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto
them.
6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto
him, because he was the
son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah;
and his son Johanan had
taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of
Berechiah.
6:19 Also they reported his good deeds
before me, and uttered my words
to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in
fear.
7:1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was
built, and I had set up the
doors, and the porters and the singers and
the Levites were appointed,
7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and
Hananiah the ruler of the
palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a
faithful man, and feared
God above many.
7:3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates
of Jerusalem be opened
until the sun be hot; and while they stand
by, let them shut the
doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of
the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every
one to be over against
his house.
7:4 Now the city was large and great: but
the people were few therein,
and the houses were not builded.
7:5 And my God put into mine heart to gather
together the nobles, and
the rulers, and the people, that they might
be reckoned by genealogy.
And I found a register of the genealogy of
them which came up at the
first, and found written therein, 7:6 These
are the children of the
province, that went up out of the captivity,
of those that had been
carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king
of Babylon had carried
away, and came again to Jerusalem and to
Judah, every one unto his
city; 7:7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua,
Nehemiah, Azariah,
Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan,
Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum,
Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the
people of Israel was
this; 7:8 The children of Parosh, two
thousand an hundred seventy and
two.
7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three
hundred seventy and two.
7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty
and two.
7:11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the
children of Jeshua and Joab,
two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
7:12 The children of Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.
7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred
forty and five.
7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred
and threescore.
7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred
forty and eight.
7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred
twenty and eight.
7:17 The children of Azgad, two thousand
three hundred twenty and two.
7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred
threescore and seven.
7:19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand
threescore and seven.
7:20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty
and five.
7:21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah,
ninety and eight.
7:22 The children of Hashum, three hundred
twenty and eight.
7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred
twenty and four.
7:24 The children of Hariph, an hundred and
twelve.
7:25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and
five.
7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an
hundred fourscore and
eight.
7:27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty
and eight.
7:28 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
7:29 The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah,
and Beeroth, seven hundred
forty and three.
7:30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred
twenty and one.
7:31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and
twenty and two.
7:32 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred
twenty and three.
7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and
two.
7:34 The children of the other Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty and
four.
7:35 The children of Harim, three hundred
and twenty.
7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred
forty and five.
7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono,
seven hundred twenty and
one.
7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand
nine hundred and thirty.
7:39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah,
of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy and three.
7:40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty
and two.
7:41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two
hundred forty and seven.
7:42 The children of Harim, a thousand and
seventeen.
7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of
Kadmiel, and of the
children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an
hundred forty and eight.
7:45 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, an hundred thirty and
eight.
7:46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha,
the children of Hashupha,
the children of Tabbaoth, 7:47 The children
of Keros, the children of
Sia, the children of Padon, 7:48 The
children of Lebana, the children
of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, 7:49 The
children of Hanan, the
children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
7:50 The children of
Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children
of Nekoda, 7:51 The
children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza,
the children of Phaseah,
7:52 The children of Besai, the children of
Meunim, the children of
Nephishesim, 7:53 The children of Bakbuk,
the children of Hakupha, the
children of Harhur, 7:54 The children of
Bazlith, the children of
Mehida, the children of Harsha, 7:55 The
children of Barkos, the
children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
7:56 The children of
Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the
children of Sotai, the
children of Sophereth, the children of
Perida, 7:58 The children of
Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children
of Giddel, 7:59 The
children of Shephatiah, the children of
Hattil, the children of
Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
7:60 All the Nethinims, and the children of
Solomon's servants, were
three hundred ninety and two.
7:61 And these were they which went up also
from Telmelah, Telharesha,
Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not
shew their father's
house, nor their seed, whether they were of
Israel.
7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children
of Tobiah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
7:63 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.
7:64 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.
7:65 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that
they should not eat of the
most holy things, till there stood up a
priest with Urim and Thummim.
7:66 The whole congregation together was
forty and two thousand three
hundred and threescore, 7:67 Beside their
manservants and their
maidservants, of whom there were seven
thousand three hundred thirty
and seven: and they had two hundred forty
and five singing men and
singing women.
7:68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and
six: their mules, two
hundred forty and five: 7:69 Their camels,
four hundred thirty and
five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty
asses.
7:70 And some of the chief of the fathers
gave unto the work. The
Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand
drams of gold, fifty basons,
five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
7:71 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
pound of silver.
7:72 And that which the rest of the people
gave was twenty thousand
drams of gold, and two thousand pound of
silver, and threescore and
seven priests' garments.
7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and
the porters, and the
singers, and some of the people, and the
Nethinims, and all Israel,
dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh
month came, the children
of Israel were in their cities.
8:1 And all the people gathered themselves
together as one man into
the street that was before the water gate;
and they spake unto Ezra
the scribe to bring the book of the law of
Moses, which the LORD had
commanded to Israel.
8:2 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.
8:3 And he read therein before the street
that was before the water
gate from the morning until midday, before
the men and the women, and
those that could understand; and the ears of
all the people were
attentive unto the book of the law.
8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit
of wood, which they had
made for the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and
Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and
Maaseiah, on his right hand; and
on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and
Malchiah, and Hashum, and
Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of
all the people; (for he
was above all the people;) and when he
opened it, all the people stood
up: 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great
God. And all the people
answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their
hands: and they bowed
their heads, and worshipped the LORD with
their faces to the ground.
8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah,
Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai,
Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
Levites, caused the people to understand the
law: and the people stood
in their place.
8:8 So they read in the book in the law of
God distinctly, and gave
the sense, and caused them to understand the
reading.
8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha,
and Ezra the priest the
scribe, and the Levites that taught the
people, said unto all the
people, This day is holy unto the LORD your
God; mourn not, nor weep.
For all the people wept, when they heard the
words of the law.
8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way,
eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions unto them for whom
nothing is prepared: for
this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be
ye sorry; for the joy of
the LORD is your strength.
8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people,
saying, Hold your peace,
for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
8:12 And all the people went their way to
eat, and to drink, and to
send portions, and to make great mirth,
because they had understood
the words that were declared unto them.
8:13 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
law.
8:14 And they found written in the law which
the LORD had commanded by
Moses, that the children of Israel should
dwell in booths in the feast
of the seventh month: 8:15 And that they
should publish and proclaim
in all their cities, and in Jerusalem,
saying, Go forth unto the
mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine
branches, and myrtle
branches, and palm branches, and branches of
thick trees, to make
booths, as it is written.
8:16 So the people went forth, and brought
them, and made themselves
booths, every one upon the roof of his
house, and in their courts, and
in the courts of the house of God, and in
the street of the water
gate, and in the street of the gate of
Ephraim.
8:17 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
Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not
the children of Israel
done so. And there was very great gladness.
8:18 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 eighth day was a solemn assembly,
according unto the manner.
9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this
month the children of
Israel were assembled with fasting, and with
sackclothes, and earth
upon them.
9:2 And the seed of Israel separated
themselves from all strangers,
and stood and confessed their sins, and the
iniquities of their
fathers.
9:3 And they stood up in their place, and
read in the book of the law
of the LORD their God one fourth part of the
day; and another fourth
part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD
their God.
9:4 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.
9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel,
Bani, Hashabniah,
Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and
Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless
the LORD your God for ever and ever: and
blessed be thy glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and
praise.
9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou
hast made heaven, the heaven
of heavens, with all their host, the earth,
and all things that are
therein, the seas, and all that is therein,
and thou preservest them
all; and the host of heaven worshippeth
thee.
9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst
choose Abram, and broughtest
him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and
gavest him the name of
Abraham; 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful
before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to give the land of the
Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Jebusites, and the
Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed,
and hast performed thy
words; for thou art righteous: 9:9 And didst
see the affliction of our
fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by
the Red sea; 9:10 And
shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and
on all his servants, and
on all the people of his land: for thou
knewest that they dealt
proudly against them. So didst thou get thee
a name, as it is this
day.
9:11 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 mighty waters.
9:12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day
by a cloudy pillar; and in
the night by a pillar of fire, to give them
light in the way wherein
they should go.
9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai,
and spakest with them
from heaven, and gavest them right
judgments, and true laws, good
statutes and commandments: 9:14 And madest
known unto them thy holy
sabbath, and commandedst them precepts,
statutes, and laws, by the
hand of Moses thy servant: 9:15 And gavest
them bread from heaven for
their hunger, and broughtest forth water for
them out of the rock for
their thirst, and promisedst them that they
should go in to possess
the land which thou hadst sworn to give
them.
9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly,
and hardened their necks,
and hearkened not to thy commandments, 9:17
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 a God
ready to pardon, gracious
and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and forsookest
them not.
9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten
calf, and said, This is thy
God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and
had wrought great
provocations; 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold
mercies forsookest them
not in the wilderness: the pillar of the
cloud departed not from them
by day, to lead them in the way; neither the
pillar of fire by night,
to shew them light, and the way wherein they
should go.
9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to
instruct them, and
withheldest not thy manna from their mouth,
and gavest them water for
their thirst.
9:21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain
them in the wilderness, so
that they lacked nothing; their clothes
waxed not old, and their feet
swelled not.
9:22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and
nations, and didst divide
them into corners: so they possessed the
land of Sihon, and the land
of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og
king of Bashan.
9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou
as the stars of heaven, and
broughtest them into the land, concerning
which thou hadst promised to
their fathers, that they should go in to
possess it.
9:24 So the children went in and possessed
the land, and thou
subduedst before them the inhabitants of the
land, the Canaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their
kings, and the people of the
land, that they might do with them as they
would.
9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat
land, and possessed houses
full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards,
and oliveyards, and fruit
trees in abundance: so they did eat, and
were filled, and became fat,
and delighted themselves in thy great
goodness.
9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and
rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law behind their backs, and
slew thy prophets which
testified against them to turn them to thee,
and they wrought great
provocations.
9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into
the hand of their enemies,
who vexed them: and in the time of their
trouble, when they cried unto
thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and
according to thy manifold
mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved
them out of the hand of
their enemies.
9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil
again before thee:
therefore leftest thou them in the land of
their enemies, so that they
had the dominion over them: yet when they
returned, and cried unto
thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and
many times didst thou
deliver them according to thy mercies; 9:29
And testifiedst against
them, that thou mightest bring them again
unto thy law: yet they dealt
proudly, and hearkened not unto thy
commandments, but sinned against
thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall
live in them;) and
withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their
neck, and would not hear.
9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them,
and testifiedst against
them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet
would they not give ear:
therefore gavest thou them into the hand of
the people of the lands.
9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies'
sake thou didst not utterly
consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art
a gracious and merciful
God.
9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the
mighty, and the terrible
God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not
all the trouble seem
little before thee, that hath come upon us,
on our kings, on our
princes, and on our priests, and on our
prophets, and on our fathers,
and on all thy people, since the time of the
kings of Assyria unto
this day.
9:33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is
brought upon us; for thou
hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
9:34 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.
9:35 For they have not served thee in their
kingdom, and in thy great
goodness that thou gavest them, and in the
large and fat land which
thou gavest before them, neither turned they
from their wicked works.
9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, and
for the land that thou
gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit
thereof and the good thereof,
behold, we are servants in it: 9:37 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.
9:38 And because of all this we make a sure
covenant, and write it;
and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal
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