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Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that
he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it]
also in writing, saying,
{{verse|1|2}} Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia,
All the kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven,
given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in
Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
{{verse|1|3}} Whosoever there is among you
of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to
Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah,
the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
{{verse|1|4}} And
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of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with
goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-offering for the
house of God which is in Jerusalem.
{{verse|1|5}} Then rose up the heads
of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and
the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to
build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem.
{{verse|1|6}} And all
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{{verse|1|7}} Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house
of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of
Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
{{verse|1|8}} even
those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of
Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar,
the prince of Judah.
{{verse|1|9}} And this is the number of them:
thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and
twenty knives,
{{verse|1|10}} thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a
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whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto
Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one
unto his city;
{{verse|2|2}} who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah,
Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum,
Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
{{verse|2|3}} The
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{{verse|2|6}} The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua
[and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
{{verse|2|7}} The
children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
{{verse|2|8}} The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
{{verse|2|9}} The
children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
{{verse|2|10}} The
children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
{{verse|2|11}} The children
of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
{{verse|2|12}} The children of
Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
{{verse|2|13}} The
children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
{{verse|2|14}} The
children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
{{verse|2|15}} The
children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
{{verse|2|16}} The
children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
{{verse|2|17}} The
children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
{{verse|2|18}} The
children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
{{verse|2|19}} The children of
Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
{{verse|2|20}} The children of
Gibbar, ninety and five.
{{verse|2|21}} The children of Beth-lehem, a
hundred twenty and three.
{{verse|2|22}} The men of Netophah, fifty and
six.
{{verse|2|23}} The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.
{{verse|2|24}} The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
{{verse|2|25}} The
children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred
and forty and three.
{{verse|2|26}} The children of Ramah and Geba, six
hundred twenty and one.
{{verse|2|27}} The men of Michmas, a hundred
twenty and two.
{{verse|2|28}} The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred
twenty and three.
{{verse|2|29}} The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
{{verse|2|30}} The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
{{verse|2|31}} The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
four.
{{verse|2|32}} The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
{{verse|2|33}} The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty
and five.
{{verse|2|34}} The children of Jericho, three hundred forty
and five.
{{verse|2|35}} The children of Senaah, three thousand and six
hundred and thirty.
{{verse|2|36}} The priests: the children of Jedaiah,
of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
{{verse|2|37}} The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
{{verse|2|38}} The
children of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
{{verse|2|39}} The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
{{verse|2|40}} The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children
of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
{{verse|2|41}} The singers: the children
of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.
{{verse|2|42}} The children of the
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children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of
Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and
nine.
{{verse|2|43}} The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of
Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
{{verse|2|44}} the children of Keros,
the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
{{verse|2|45}} the
children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of
Akkub,
{{verse|2|46}} the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai,
the children of Hanan,
{{verse|2|47}} the children of Giddel, the
children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
{{verse|2|48}} the children
of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
{{verse|2|49}} the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of
Besai,
{{verse|2|50}} the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the
children of Nephisim,
{{verse|2|51}} the children of Bakbuk, the
children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
{{verse|2|52}} the children
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{{verse|2|53}} the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the
children of Temah,
{{verse|2|54}} the children of Neziah, the children
of Hatipha.
{{verse|2|55}} The children of Solomon's servants: the
children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of
Peruda,
{{verse|2|56}} the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon,
the children of Giddel,
{{verse|2|57}} the children of Shephatiah, the
children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the
children of Ami.
{{verse|2|58}} All the Nethinim, and the children of
Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
{{verse|2|59}} And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha,
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{{verse|2|60}} the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the
children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
{{verse|2|61}} And of the
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of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the
daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their
name.
{{verse|2|62}} These sought their register [among] those that were
reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were
they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
{{verse|2|63}} And the
governor said unto them, that they should not eat of the most
holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with
Thummim.
{{verse|2|64}} The whole assembly together was forty and two
thousand three hundred and threescore,
{{verse|2|65}} besides their
men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven
thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two
hundred singing men and singing women.
{{verse|2|66}} Their horses were
seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and
five;
{{verse|2|67}} their camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their]
asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
{{verse|2|68}} And some of
the heads of fathers' [houses], when they came to the house of
Jehovah which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house
of God to set it up in its place:
{{verse|2|69}} they gave after their
ability into the treasury of the work threescore and one
thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and
one hundred priests' garments.
{{verse|2|70}} So the priests, and the
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{{verse|3|1}} And when the seventh month was come, and the children
of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves
together as one man to Jerusalem.
{{verse|3|2}} Then stood up Jeshua the
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son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the
God of Israel, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, as it is
written in the law of Moses the man of God.
{{verse|3|3}} And they set
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{{verse|3|4}} And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written,
and [offered] the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to
the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
{{verse|3|5}} and
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the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that were
consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a
freewill-offering unto Jehovah.
{{verse|3|6}} From the first day of the
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and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the
sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus
king of Persia.
{{verse|3|8}} Now in the second year of their coming
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all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and
appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have
the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.
{{verse|3|9}} Then
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sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the
workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their
sons and their brethren the Levites.
{{verse|3|10}} And when the
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the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the
sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order
of David king of Israel.
{{verse|3|11}} And they sang one to another in
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And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised
Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was
laid.
{{verse|3|12}} But many of the priests and Levites and heads of
fathers' [houses], the old men that had seen the first house,
when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes,
wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
{{verse|3|13}} so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of
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{{verse|4|1}} Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard
that the children of the captivity were building a temple unto
Jehovah, the God of Israel;
{{verse|4|2}} then they drew near to
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them, Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as ye do; and
we sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of
Assyria, who brought us up hither.
{{verse|4|3}} But Zerubbabel, and
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building a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will
build unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of
Persia hath commanded us.
{{verse|4|4}} Then the people of the land
weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in
building,
{{verse|4|5}} and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate
their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until
the reign of Darius king of Persia.
{{verse|4|6}} And in the reign of
Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an
accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
{{verse|4|7}} And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel,
and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia;
and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian
[character], and set forth in the Syrian [tongue].
{{verse|4|8}} Rehum
the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against
Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
{{verse|4|9}} then
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rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites,
the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians,
the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
{{verse|4|10}} and the
rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought
over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest [of the
country] beyond the River, and so forth.
{{verse|4|11}} This is the copy
of the letter that they sent unto Artaxerxes the king: Thy
servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.
{{verse|4|12}} Be it
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come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and
the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the
foundations.
{{verse|4|13}} Be it known now unto the king, that, if this
city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay
tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful unto
the kings.
{{verse|4|14}} Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and
it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have
we sent and certified the king;
{{verse|4|15}} that search may be made
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city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have
moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was
this city laid waste.
{{verse|4|16}} We certify the king that, if this
city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou
shalt have no portion beyond the River.
{{verse|4|17}} [Then] sent the
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scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in
Samaria, and in the rest [of the country] beyond the River:
Peace, and so forth.
{{verse|4|18}} The letter which ye sent unto us
hath been plainly read before me.
{{verse|4|19}} And I decreed, and
search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old
time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion
and sedition have been made therein.
{{verse|4|20}} There have been
mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [the
country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was
paid unto them.
{{verse|4|21}} Make ye now a decree to cause these men
to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree
shall be made by me.
{{verse|4|22}} And take heed that ye be not slack
herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
{{verse|4|23}} Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before
Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went
in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by
force and power.
{{verse|4|24}} Then ceased the work of the house of God
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son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and
Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they]
unto them.
{{verse|5|2}} Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of
God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of
God, helping them.
{{verse|5|3}} At the same time came to them Tattenai,
the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their
companions, and said thus unto them, Who gave you a decree to
build this house, and to finish this wall?
{{verse|5|4}} Then we told
them after this manner, what the names of the men were that were
making this building.
{{verse|5|5}} But the eye of their God was upon
the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, till
the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be
returned by letter concerning it.
{{verse|5|6}} The copy of the letter
that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and
Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were
beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;
{{verse|5|7}} they sent a
letter unto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Darius the king,
all peace.
{{verse|5|8}} Be it known unto the king, that we went into
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servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the
house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king
of Israel builded and finished.
{{verse|5|12}} But after that our
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into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean,
who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into
Babylon.
{{verse|5|13}} But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon,
Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
{{verse|5|14}} And the gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which
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{{verse|5|15}} and he said unto him, Take these vessels, go, put them in
the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be
builded in its place.
{{verse|5|16}} Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and
laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem:
and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and
yet it is not completed.
{{verse|5|17}} Now therefore, if it seem good
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{{verse|6|1}} Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made
in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up
in Babylon.
{{verse|6|2}} And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace
that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus
written for a record:
{{verse|6|3}} In the first year of Cyrus the king,
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sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid;
the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof
threescore cubits;
{{verse|6|4}} with three courses of great stones, and
a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the
king's house.
{{verse|6|5}} And also let the gold and silver vessels of
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restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at
Jerusalem, every one to its place; and thou shalt put them in
the house of God.
{{verse|6|6}} Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond
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{{verse|6|7}} let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor
of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God
in its place.
{{verse|6|8}} Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to
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that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River,
expenses be given with all diligence unto these men, that they
be not hindered.
{{verse|6|9}} And that which they have need of, both
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God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to
the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given
them day by day without fail;
{{verse|6|10}} that they may offer
sacrifices of sweet savor unto the God of heaven, and pray for
the life of the king, and of his sons.
{{verse|6|11}} Also I have made a
decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let a beam be
pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened
thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this:
{{verse|6|12}} and the God that hath caused his name to dwell there overthrow
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{{verse|6|13}} Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River,
Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the
king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.
{{verse|6|14}} And
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And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment
of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and
Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
{{verse|6|15}} And this house was
finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the
sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
{{verse|6|16}} And the
children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest
of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this
house of God with joy.
{{verse|6|17}} And they offered at the dedication
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{{verse|6|18}} And they set the priests in their divisions, and the
Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at
Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
{{verse|6|19}} And the
children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth
[day] of the first month.
{{verse|6|20}} For the priests and the Levites
had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and
they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity,
and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
{{verse|6|21}} And the children of Israel that were come again out of the
captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them
from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah,
the God of Israel, did eat,
{{verse|6|22}} and kept the feast of
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{{verse|7|1}} Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king
of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son
of Hilkiah,
{{verse|7|2}} the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son
of Ahitub,
{{verse|7|3}} the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son
of Meraioth,
{{verse|7|4}} the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son
of Bukki,
{{verse|7|5}} the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son
of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;
{{verse|7|6}} this Ezra
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Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king
granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah
his God upon him.
{{verse|7|7}} And there went up some of the children
of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers,
and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the
seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
{{verse|7|8}} And he came to
Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of
the king.
{{verse|7|9}} For upon the first [day] of the first month
began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the
fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of
his God upon him.
{{verse|7|10}} For Ezra had set his heart to seek the
law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes
and ordinances.
{{verse|7|11}} Now this is the copy of the letter that
the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even
the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of
his statutes to Israel:
{{verse|7|12}} Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto
Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven,
perfect and so forth.
{{verse|7|13}} I make a decree, that all they of
the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my
realm, that are minded of their own free will to go to
Jerusalem, go with thee.
{{verse|7|14}} Forasmuch as thou art sent of
the king and his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah
and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thy
hand,
{{verse|7|15}} and to carry the silver and gold, which the king
and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel,
whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
{{verse|7|16}} and all the silver and
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the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests,
offering willingly for the house of their God which is in
Jerusalem;
{{verse|7|17}} therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy
with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings
and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar
of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
{{verse|7|18}} And
whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do
with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do ye after the
will of your God.
{{verse|7|19}} And the vessels that are given thee for
the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God
of Jerusalem.
{{verse|7|20}} And whatsoever more shall be needful for
the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow,
bestow it out of the king's treasure-house.
{{verse|7|21}} And I, even I
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are beyond the River, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the
scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it
be done with all diligence,
{{verse|7|22}} unto a hundred talents of
silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred
baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without
prescribing how much.
{{verse|7|23}} Whatsoever is commanded by the God
of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of
heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the
king and his sons?
{{verse|7|24}} Also we certify you, that touching any
of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or
servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose
tribute, custom, or toll, upon them.
{{verse|7|25}} And thou, Ezra,
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magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that are
beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God; and
teach ye him that knoweth them not.
{{verse|7|26}} And whosoever will
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be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto
death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to
imprisonment.
{{verse|7|27}} Blessed be Jehovah, the God of our fathers,
who hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to
beautify the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem;
{{verse|7|28}} and
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{{verse|8|1}} Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and
this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon,
in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
{{verse|8|2}} Of the sons of
Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons
of David, Hattush.
{{verse|8|3}} Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons
of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of
the males a hundred and fifty.
{{verse|8|4}} Of the sons of Pahath-moab,
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{{verse|8|5}} Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with
him three hundred males.
{{verse|8|6}} And of the sons of Adin, Ebed the
son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
{{verse|8|7}} And of the sons
of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy
males.
{{verse|8|8}} And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of
Michael; and with him fourscore males.
{{verse|8|9}} Of the sons of
Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and
eighteen males.
{{verse|8|10}} And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of
Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and threescore males.
{{verse|8|11}} And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with
him twenty and eight males.
{{verse|8|12}} And of the sons of Azgad,
Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten
males.
{{verse|8|13}} And of the sons of Adonikam, [that were] the last;
and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and
with them threescore males.
{{verse|8|14}} And of the sons of Bigvai,
Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
{{verse|8|15}} And I
gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and
there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the
priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
{{verse|8|16}} Then
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and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for
Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and
for Elnathan, who were teachers.
{{verse|8|17}} And I sent them forth
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they should say unto Iddo, [and] his brethren the Nethinim, at
the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for
the house of our God.
{{verse|8|18}} And according to the good hand of
our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons
of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah,
with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;
{{verse|8|19}} and Hashabiah,
and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and
their sons, twenty;
{{verse|8|20}} and of the Nethinim, whom David and
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we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a
straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our
substance.
{{verse|8|22}} For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of
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because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God
is upon all them that seek him, for good; but his power and his
wrath is against all them that forsake him.
{{verse|8|23}} So we fasted
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vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the
king, and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel there
present, had offered:
{{verse|8|26}} I weighed into their hand six
hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a
hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents;
{{verse|8|27}} and twenty
bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine
bright brass, precious as gold.
{{verse|8|28}} And I said unto them, Ye
are holy unto Jehovah, and the vessels are holy; and the silver
and the gold are a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, the God of
your fathers.
{{verse|8|29}} Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh
them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the
princes of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the
chambers of the house of Jehovah.
{{verse|8|30}} So the priests and the
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[day] of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of
our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the
enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.
{{verse|8|32}} And we came to
Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
{{verse|8|33}} And on the fourth
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priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with
them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of
Binnui, the Levite;
{{verse|8|34}} the whole by number and by weight:
and all the weight was written at that time.
{{verse|8|35}} The children
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Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve
he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burnt-offering unto
Jehovah.
{{verse|8|36}} And they delivered the king's commissions unto
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lands, [doing] according to their abominations, even of the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
{{verse|9|2}} For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for
their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with
the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and
rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
{{verse|9|3}} And when I heard
this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and plucked off the
hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
{{verse|9|4}} Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words
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{{verse|9|6}} and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my
face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our
head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
{{verse|9|7}} Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto
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priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands,
to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of
face, as it is this day.
{{verse|9|8}} And now for a little moment grace
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escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God
may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our
bondage.
{{verse|9|9}} For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken
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the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set
up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins thereof, and to
give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
{{verse|9|10}} And now, O our
God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy
commandments,
{{verse|9|11}} which thou hast commanded by thy servants
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is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the
lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one
end to another with their filthiness:
{{verse|9|12}} now therefore give
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unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for
ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and
leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
{{verse|9|13}} And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for
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affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest
not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that
there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
{{verse|9|15}} O Jehovah,
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casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered
together unto him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and
women and children; for the people wept very sore.
{{verse|10|2}} And
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and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have
married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there
is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
{{verse|10|3}} Now therefore
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and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my
lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God;
and let it be done according to the law.
{{verse|10|4}} Arise; for the
matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with thee: be of good
courage, and do it.
{{verse|10|5}} Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs
of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they
would do according to this word. So they sware.
{{verse|10|6}} Then Ezra
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of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came thither, he
did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the
trespass of them of the captivity.
{{verse|10|7}} And they made
proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the
children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
together unto Jerusalem;
{{verse|10|8}} and that whosoever came not
within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and
the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself
separated from the assembly of the captivity.
{{verse|10|9}} Then all
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twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the
broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this
matter, and for the great rain.
{{verse|10|10}} And Ezra the priest
stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have
married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
{{verse|10|11}} Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the
peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
{{verse|10|12}} Then
all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, As thou
hast said concerning us, so must we do.
{{verse|10|13}} But the people
are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to
stand without: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we
have greatly transgressed in this matter.
{{verse|10|14}} Let now our
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appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the
judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from
us, until this matter be despatched.
{{verse|10|15}} Only Jonathan the
son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against
this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped
them.
{{verse|10|16}} And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra
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their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set
apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to
examine the matter.
{{verse|10|17}} And they made an end with all the
men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first
month.
{{verse|10|18}} And among the sons of the priests there were
found that had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of
Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and
Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
{{verse|10|19}} And they gave their
hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty,
[they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.
{{verse|10|20}} And
of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
{{verse|10|21}} And of the
sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel,
and Uzziah.
{{verse|10|22}} And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai,
Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
{{verse|10|23}} And of
the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is
Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
{{verse|10|24}} And of the
singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and
Uri.
{{verse|10|25}} And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and
Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah,
and Benaiah.
{{verse|10|26}} And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah,
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{{verse|10|27}} And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah,
and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
{{verse|10|28}} And of the sons of
Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
{{verse|10|29}} And of the
sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal,
Jeremoth.
{{verse|10|30}} And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and
Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and
Manasseh.
{{verse|10|31}} And [of] the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah,
Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
{{verse|10|32}} Benjamin, Malluch,
Shemariah.
{{verse|10|33}} Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah,
Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
{{verse|10|34}} Of the sons
of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
{{verse|10|35}} Benaiah, Bedeiah,
Cheluhi,
{{verse|10|36}} Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
{{verse|10|37}} Mattaniah,
Mattenai, and Jaasu,
{{verse|10|38}} and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
{{verse|10|39}} and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
{{verse|10|40}} Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
{{verse|10|41}} Azarel, and Shelemiah,
Shemariah,
{{verse|10|42}} Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
{{verse|10|43}} Of the sons
of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel,
Benaiah.
{{verse|10|44}} All these had taken foreign wives; and some of
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