4 Now the city was Þ large and great: but the peo- 4 40y, . ple were few therein, and the houſes were not built m. broad of | #n7,e, Not all,nor compleatly built; but only ſome flight Build- hands, or | ings of Boards or tones were made for the preſent uſe of the ge- ſpaces. |
went up out of the captivity, of thoſe that had been * Ezra 2. carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Ba-”
7 Who came with Zerubbabel: Jeſhua, Nehemiah, || Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Biiſhan, || Oc,Sers- Miſpereth, Bigvai, Nahum,Baanah : the number, 1/ay,##*
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Chap. VII. FNEHEM 14 H. ſ Or; 4- 28 The men of |] Beth-azmaveth, fourty and two. ty and ſeven? and they had two hundred forty and maveth. 29 The men of || Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and | five ſinging men, and finging-wemen.
+6 Hm Besroth, ſeven hundred forty and three. 20 The men of Ramah, and Geba, ſix hundred
twenty and one.
21 The menof Michmaſh, an hundred and twenty and two.
22 The men of Beth.el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three:
The men of the other Nebo, fifcy and two.
24 The children of the other * Elam, a thouſand two hundred fifty and fours .
25 The children of Harim three hundied and twenty.
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| 36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty
and five. - 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, ſeven hundred twenty and one. 28 The children of Sanaah, three chouſand nine hundred and thirty. * ,Chron, / 39 The prieſts : the children of * Jedajah of the 24. 7. ouſe of Jeſhua, nine hundred ſeventy and three, | 40 Thechildren of Immer, a thouſand filry and two. 41 The children of Paſhur, a thouſand two hundred forty and leven. | | 42 The chiidren of Harim, a thouſand and ſfeven- teeny 43 The Levites : the children of Jeſhua, of Kadmiel, IOr,Hods- ,,.7 of the children of || Hodevah, fevenry and four.
=o amy 44 Th> ſingers : the children of Aſaph, an hundred
Judah, "forty and eight. Ezra. 39,
Akkub. the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the chil- dren of Haſupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
47 The children of Keros, the chiidren of Sia, the children of Padon,
48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
49 The chi'dren of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar.
50 The children of Reajah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaſeah.
52 The children of Beſai, the children of Meunim, the chi.dren of Nephiſheſim, | |
53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harſjha,
55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sifera,the
children of Tamah,
56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
57 The children of Solomons ſervants: the ctildren
of Sotai, the children of Sophereth,the children of Pe- |
rida. 58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon,
the children-of Giddel.
59 The children of Shephatiak,-the children of Hat»
| til, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children [| Or, Ani of || Amen :
60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons ſervants, were three hundred ninety and two.
61 * Aud theſe were they which went up alſo from Tel-melah, Tel-hareſha, Cherub, Addon and Immer : but they could not ſhew their fathers houſe, nor their [Or, pede. || ſeed, whether they were of Iſrael.
62 The children of Delajah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, ſix hundredforty and two.
63 And of the prieſts , the children of Habajah, che children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took oxe of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wike, and was called after their name.
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gree.
64 Theſe {ought their regiſter among thoſe that were . ' alſo the ſenſe aud meaning of them : they expounded the mind
| and will of Gcd in what they read, and applied it to the peoples ' preſent condition, as they ſaw fir, as the manner of the Prophets generally was. And hetice the people were ſo deeply affefted with
reckoned by. genealogy, but it was not found: there- fore were they as polluted put from the prieſt-hood.
65 And|| the Tirſhatha ſaid unto them, that they | Or, th: ſhould not cat of the moſt holy things, ill there ſtood gYvernur. yy a prieſt with Urim and Thummim.
66 The whole congregation rogether, as forty and two thouſand, three hundred and threeſcore. |
67 Beſide their man-fervants and their maid-fervants, - ofwhom there were ſeven thouſand three hundred thir-
— Mi 3-2, & wer ee eee hone + .
45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the chil- dren of Ater, the children of Talmon, the chiidren of
68 Their horſes ſeven hundred thirtie and fix : their mules two hundred forty and five:
69 Their came!s four hundred thirty and five: thouſand ſeven hundred and twenty aſſes.
7o And 7 feme of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work: the Tirſhatha » gave to the treaſure a thou. T Heb. land drams of gold, fifty baſons, five hundred and thir. *””: ty prieſts garments.
ri,e. The Governour, to wit. Nehemiah. So it is no wonder that the number of the moneys, and other things here conttibuted,gif. fer from that Ezra 2. becauſe this is another colle&ion; that wag made in Zorohabel's time, and this in Ezra's.
71 And ſeme 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 filver. '
62 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 gar- ments.
73 SO the prieſts, and the Levites, and the porters, and the fingers, and ſome of the people, and the Nethi- nims, and all Hrael, dwelt in their cities; and when the ſeventh month came, the children of iſrael were in their
Cities. CH -vHL Ezra bringeth, and expoundeth the Law of Moſes, and bleſſeth Ged with
the people, 1» 8. Nehemiah and Ezra comfort the People, 9 1 2.
The peoples forwaraneſs to hear, and to be inſirufted inthe Law,13---i5,
They make themſelves booths, 16, 17. And keep a faft ſeven days, 18, ©
ND all * the people gathered themſelves rogether »p,,... as one man, into the ſtreet that was before the water-gate a and they ſpake unto Ezra * the ſcribe, *Ez:1 6; to bring the book of the Law of Moſes, which the LORD had commanded to Lfrae].
a Of which, ſee Nehem: 3: 26.