Nehemiah 7

Nehemiah · Thomson 1808 · public domain

1NOW when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the keepers were reviewed and the musicians and the Levites,

2I gave a charge to my brother Ananias, and to Ananias chief of Bira in Jerusalem; for he was a man of truth, and feared God above many;

3and I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem must not be opened till sunrise. And when the watch is set, let the doors be shut and well bolted, and appoint guards of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every man in his ward, and every man over against his house.

4As the city was of large extent, and the people therein few, and the houses were not rebuilt,

5God put it into my heart, and I had collected the nobles and the chiefs, and the people into classes, having found a book of the enrollment of those who first came up, in which I found written:

6Now these are the children of the province who came up from the captivity—from the distant abode to which Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon had sent them, and who returned, every man to his city,

7with Zorobabel and Jesus, and Nehemias, Azarias and Reelma, Naemani, Mordecai, Balsan, Maspharath, Esdra, Baguia, Inaum, Baana, Masphar, head men of the people of Israel:

8The children of Pharos, two thousand a hundred and seventy-two;

9The children of Saphatia, three hundred and seventy-two;

10The children of Era, six hundred and fifty-two;

11The children of Phaath-moab, descendants of Jesu and Joab, two thousand six hundred and eighteen;

12The children of Ailam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four;

13The children of Zathuia, eight hundred and forty-five;

14The children of Zakchu, seven hundred and sixty;

15The children of Banui, six hundred and forty-eight;

16The children of Bebi, six hundred and twenty-eight;

17The children of Esgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two;

18The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven;

19The children of Bagoi, two thousand and sixty-seven;

20The children of Edin, six hundred and fifty-five;

21The children of Ater, descendants of Ezekias, ninety-eight;

22The children of Esam, three hundred and twenty-eight;

23The children of Besei, three hundred and twenty-four;

24The children of Ariph, a hundred and twelve;
The children of Asen, two hundred and twenty-three;

25The children of Gabaon, ninety-five;

26The children of Baithalem, a hundred and twenty-three;
The children of Atopha, fifty-six;

27The children of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight;

28The men of Bethasmoth, forty-two;

29The men of Kariathiarim, Kaphira and Beroth, seven hundred and forty-three;

30The men of Arama and Gabaa, six hundred and twenty;

31The men of Machemas, a hundred and twenty-two;

32The men of Baithel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three;

33The men of Nabia, a hundred and fifty-two;

34The men of Elamaar, a thousand two hundred and fifty-two;

35The children of Eram, three hundred and twenty;

36The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five;

37The children of Lodadid and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one;

38The children of Sanana, three thousand nine hundred and thirty;

39The Priests. The children of Jodae, for the house of Jesu, nine hundred and seventy-three;

40The children of Emmer, a thousand and fifty-two;

41The children of Phaseur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven;

42The children of Eram, a thousand and seventeen;

43The Levites. The children of Jesu and Kadmiel, descendants of Ouduia, seventy-four;

44The musicians, the children of Asaph, a hundred and eighty-eight;

45The keepers of the gates, the Salumites, the Aterites, the Telmonites, the Akubites, the Atites, the Sabites, a hundred and thirty-eight;

46The Nathinims, The Seas, the Asphas, the Tabaoths,

47the Kiras, the Asuias, the Phadons,

48the Labanas, the Agabas, the Selmeis,

49the Anans, the Gadels, the Gaars,

50the Raaias, the Rassons, the Nekodas,

51the Gersams, the Ozis, the Pheses,

52the Besis, the Meinons, the Nephosasis,

53the Bakbuks, the Achiphas, the Aroers,

54the Basaloths, the Midas, the Adasons,

55the Barkoues, the Sisaraths, the Themas,

56the Nisias, the Atiphas;

57the children of Solomon’s servants, the Suteis, the Sapharats, the Pheridas,

58the Jelels, the Dorkons, the Gadaels,

59the Saphatias, the Ettels, the Phakaraths, the Sabaims, the Emins.

60All these Nathinims and the children of Solomon’s servants, three hundred and ninety-two.

61These also came up from Thelmeleth, Thelaresa, Charub, Eron, Jemer, but could not shew the houses of their families, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel; namely,

62the children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.

63And of the priests: the children of Ebia, the children of Akos, the children of Berzelli, (for they had married some of the daughters of Berzelli, the Galaadite, and were called by their names)—

64these sought the register of their genealogy, but it could not be found. Though they were related to the priesthood,

65yet the Athersastha ordered, that they should not eat of the most holy meats, until a priest should arise with the Manifestation.

66The whole congregation was about forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

67exclusive of their men servants and maid servants, the number of whom was seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven,

68and the choristers of both sexes, two hundred and forty-five.

69Their asses were two thousand seven hundred.

70As some of the heads of the families had given for the work to Nehemias,— for the treasury, a thousand pieces of gold, fifty cups, and thirty vestures for the priests;

71the other heads of the families gave for the treasures of the work, twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand three hundred pieces of silver;

72and the rest of the people gave twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand two hundred pieces of silver, and sixty-seven vestures for the priests.

73Now the priests and the Levites, and the keepers of the gates and the musicians, and some of the people, and the Nathinims, and all Israel, had taken up their abode in their cities.