A register of those who BEFORE CHRIST cir. 445. Heb.broad in spaces. cir. 536. NEHEMIAH, VII. inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one 4 Now the city was 2 large and 6 These are the children of the Ezra 2. 1, province, that went up out of the &c. 3 Or, Seraiah: returned from Babylon. 25 The children of 2 Gibeon, ninety and five. 26 The men of Beth-lehem and BEFORE CHRIST cir. 536. 2 Or, Netophah, an hundred fourscore Gibbar. and eight. 27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight. 28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, 30r, forty and two. 4 Azmaveth. jath-arim. 29 The men of Kirjath-jearim, 4 Or, KirChephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three. 30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one. 31 The men of Michmas, an hun captivity, of those that had been car-dred and twenty and two. 32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, an 7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, 3 Azariah, Raamiah, See Ezra2.2. Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; 4 Or, Bani. 5 Or, Jora. 10 The children of Arah, six hun-Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, fiChr. 24.7. dred fifty and two. 18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven. 19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven. 41 The children of Pashur, a thou-seel Chr.9. sand two hundred forty and seven. 42 The children of 'Harim, a thou- 11 Chr. 24.8. sand and seventeen. 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of 5 Hodevah, seventy and four. 44 T The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight. 45 T 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. 46 ¶ The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth, 47 The children of Keros, the chil20 The children of Adin, six hun-dren of Sia, the children of Padon, dred fifty and five. 21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight. 22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight. 48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of 'Shalmai, 49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, 50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of 23 The children of Bezai, three 51 The children of Gazzam, the Or, Ezra 2. 40. Hodaviah, or, Judah, Ezra 3.9. 6 Or, Siaha. 7 Or, Shamlai. The number that returned. BEFORE! CHRIST cir. 536. 2 Or, Nephusim. 3 Or. Bazluth. 4 Or, Peruda. 6 Or, Ami. k Ezra 2. 59. 6 Or, Addun. 7 Or, pedigrec. 8 Or, the governor. ch. 8. 9. NEHEMIAH, VIII. children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah, 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of 2 Nephishesim, 53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, 54 The children of 3 Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah, 56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. 57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of + Perida, 58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of 5 Amon. 60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two. 6 61 And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their 7 seed, whether they 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. 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. 66 ¶ The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, 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. 68 Their horses, seven hundred The manner of reading thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five: 69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses. 70 ¶ And 2 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' gar ments. 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. 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. 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. CHAPTER VIII. 1 The religious manner of reading and hearing the law. 9 They comfort the people. 13 The forwardness of them to hear and be instructed. 16 They keep the feast of tabernacles. ND all a the people gathered A themselves together as one man BEFORE CHRIST cir. 536. 2 Heb. part. ch. 8. 9. m So Ezra 2. 69. n Ezra 3. L cir. 445. a Ezra 3. 1. • Ezra 7. 6. into the street that was before the bch. 3. 26. 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. d Deut. 31. 11, 12. 2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that 3 Heb. that could hear with understanding, up-n hearing. on the first day of the seventh month. е 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. 5 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. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was understood Lev. 23.24. Heb. light. from the Heb. wood. tower of 6 Heb. eyes. and hearing the law. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 445. f Judg. 3. 20. 16. 81 Cor. 14. Lam.3.41. 1 Tim. 2. 8. I Ex. 4. 31. & 12. 27. 2 Chr. 20.18. NEHEMIAH, IX. 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 lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. 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 2 Chr. 17.7, people stood in their place. K'Lev. 10. 11. Deut. 33.10. 8,9. Mal. 2. 7. 1 Ezra 2. 63. ch. 7. 65. & 10. 1. * Or, the governor. 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 1 9 ¶ And Nehemiah, which is 2 the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that A solemn fast kept. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 445. selves booths, every one upon the y roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of %. the 2 water gate, and in the streetch. 12. 37. of the gate of Ephraim. y Deut. 22. a 2 Kings 14. 13. ch. 12. 39. 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 2 Chr. 30. gladness. с b 21. • Deut. 31. 10, &c. 2 Heb. a 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 restraint. on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. CHAPTER IX. 2 Chr. 35. taught the people, said unto all the solemn fast, and repentance of the people. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, Pand 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. 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. 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. 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. 14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel the hand of should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: 4 The Levites make a religious confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness. d Lev. 23. 36. Num. 29.35. 445. OW in the twenty and fourth day day of this month the chil-a ch. 8. 2. dren of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, band earth upon them. 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all 'strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 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. Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Or, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, scaffold. 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 Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, 1 Chr. 29. which is exalted above all blessing and praise. 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. 7 Thou art the LORD the God, who 16 So the people went forth, didst choose 'Abram, and broughtest and brought them, and made them-him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, The Levites make a confession NEHEMIAH, IX. BEFORE CHRIST 445. m Gen.17.5. Gen. 12.7. n Gen. 15. 6. & 15. 18. & 17. 7, 8. P Josh. 23. 14. q Ex. 2. 25. &z 3. 7. r Ex. 14. 10. 8 Ex. 7,8,9, and gavest him the name of " Abraham; 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 Phast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: 99 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and 'heardest their cry by the Red sea; 10 And shewedst signs and wonchapter ders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they + Ex. 18. 11. dealt proudly against them. So didst Ex. 9. 16. thou get thee a name, as it is this Jer. 32. 20. day, Is. 63. 12,14. Dan. 9. 15. x Ex. 14. 21, 22, 27, 28. Ps. 78. 13. y Ex. 15. 5, 10. Ex. 13. 21. a Ex. 19. 20. & 20.1. bP3.19.8,9. 2 Heb. laws Rom. 7.12. of truth. u 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, y as a stone into the mighty waters. Ꭹ 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. 13 a 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: 14 And madest known unto them Gen. 2. 3. thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: Ex. 20. 8, 11. 8 Ex. 16. 14, 15. John 6. 31. Ex. 17. 6. Num. 20. 9, &c. f Dout.1. 8. 3 Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them. 23 Their children also multi- Gen.22.17. pliedst 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. 24 So the children went in and Josh. 1. 2, &c. possessed the land, and thou subz Pa. 44. 2,3. duedst 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 2 they would. 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 f goodness. 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 land3 which thou hadst sworn to give them. h 16 But they and our fathers dealt Num.14.30. proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, g ver. 29. Ps. 106. 6. h Deut. 31. 27. 2 Kings 17. 14. 3 Chr. 30.8. 1 Ps. 78. 11, Jer. 19. 15. 42, 43. kNum.14.4. 4 Hcb. a God of pardons. 1 Ex. 34. 6. Num. 14.18. Ps. 86. 5, 15. Joel 2. 13. m Ex. 32.4. k 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, 1gracious 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 f с e cisterns. Heb. tree of food. c Deut. 32. 15. 26 Nevertheless they were diso-Hos. 3. 5. bedient, 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. Ezek. 20.91. f 1 Kings 14.9. Ps. 50. 17. g1 Kings 18. 4. & 19. 10. 20, 21. Acts 7. 52. Judg.2.14. Ps. 106. 41, 2 Chr. 21. Matt. 23.37. & 3. 8, &c. 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 hea-42. ven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. 1 Ps. 106. 44. k Judg.2.18. & 3.9. returned to 5 Hcb. they do evil. 1 So Judg. 3. 4.1. & 5. 31. & 6. 1. 28 But after they had rest, 51 they 11,12, 30. & did evil again before thee: therefore of the people's wickedness. BBPORE CHRIST 445. m I's.106.43. a ver. 16. Lev. 18. 5. Ezek. 20.11. Rom. 5. Gal. 3. 12. 2 Heb. they gave a with drawing shoulder, Zech. 7. 11. 3 Heb. protract over them. P2 Kings 17.13. 2 Chr. 36.15. Jer. 7. 25. & 25.4. 4 Heb. in the hand of thy prophets. q See Acts 7.51. 1 Pet. 1. 11. 2 Pet. 1. 21. r Is. 5. 5. & 42.24. . Jer. 4. 27. & 5. 10, 18. t ver. 17. a Ex. 31. 6, ch. 1. 5. 6 Heb. weariness. 6 Heb. that hath found us. x 2 Kings 17.3. yPa.119.137. Dan. 9. 14. NEHEMIAH, X. Them that sealed the covenant. leftest thou them in the hand 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 ; m 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 2 withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. 30 Yet many years didst thou 3 forbear them, and testifiedst P against them by thy spirit 44in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. 31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. u в 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, I 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 Ps. 106. 6. wickedly: Dan. 9. 5, 6, 8. a Deut. 28. 47. b ver. 25. ⚫ ver. 25. d Deut. 28. 48. Ezra 9. 9. • Deut. 28. 33, 51. f Deut. 28. 48. 1 The names of them that sealed the covenant. 29 The points of the covenant. OW 3 those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, 2 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. BEFORE CHRIST 445. g 2 Kings 23.3. 2 Chr. 29. 10. & 34. 31. Ezra 10. 3. ch. 10. 29. 2 Heb. are at the sealing, or, sealed." h ch.10.1. 8 Heb. at the sealings. ch. 9. 38. a ch. 8. 9. 4 Or, the governor. b ch. 1. 1. • See ch. 12. 1-21. d See Ezra 2. 3, &c. 14 The chief of the people; d Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, ch. 7. 8, &c. Bani, 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, |