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Ezra and Nehemiah: Greatest Verses Of The Bible.
--Sermon by Dr. Bob Benchoff January 15, 2004
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The Book of Ezra
Chapter 1:
1 ¶ In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, to fulfil the word of Yahweh from the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh aroused the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, moreover also in writing, saying:
2 Thus, saith Cyrus, king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth, hath Yahweh God of the heavens, given to me,-and, he himself, hath laid charge upon me, to build for him a house, in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3 Who is there 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 Yahweh God of Israel, (he, is God!) which is in Jerusalem;
4 And, whosoever is left, of all the places where he doth sojourn, let the men of his place uphold him, with silver and with gold, and with goods and with beasts,-along with a voluntary offering for the house of God, which is in Jerusalem.
5 ¶ Then arose the ancestral chiefs of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites,-even every one whose spirit God had aroused, to go up to build the house of Yahweh, which was in Jerusalem;
6 and, all they who were round about them, strengthened their hands, with utensils of silver, with gold with goods and with beasts, and with precious things,-besides any thing he had volunteered.
7 And, King Cyrus, brought forth the utensils of the house of Yahweh,-which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth from Jerusalem, and put in the house of his gods:-
8 yea Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth, by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer,-and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, a leader of Judah.
9 And, these, were the numbers of them,-basins of gold, thirty, basins of silver, a thousand, knives, twenty-nine;
10 bowls of gold, thirty, bowls of silver, of a secondary sort, four hundred and ten,-other utensils, a thousand.
11 All the utensils, in gold and silver, were five thousand and four hundred,-the whole, did Sheshbazzar bring up with the upbringing of the exile, out of Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Ezra Chapter 2:
1 ¶ Now, these, are the sons of the province, who came up from among the captives of the exile, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon exiled to Babylon,-who came back unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his own city;
62 These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but they were not found,-so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;
63 and the governor told them, that they must not eat of the most holy things,-until there should stand up a priest, with Lights and Perfections.
64 ¶ All the gathered host together, was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty;
65 besides, their men-servants and their maid-servants who were these, seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven,-and there pertained to them, singing men and singing women, two hundred:
66 their horses, were seven hundred and thirty-six,-their mules, two hundred and forty-five;
67 their camels, four hundred and thirty-five,-asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
68 And, a portion of the ancestral chiefs, when they came to the house of Yahweh which was in Jerusalem, offered voluntarily for the house of God, to set it up on its basis.
69 According to their ability, gave they unto the treasury of the work, of gold, sixty-one thousand drams, and, of silver, five thousand manehs,-and, tunics for priests, one hundred.
70 So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers and the doorkeepers and the Nethinim, took up their abode, in their cities,-and, all Israel, in their cities.
Ezra Chapter 3:
1 ¶ But, when the seventh month was come, and the sons of Israel were in cities, then did the people gather themselves together as one man, unto Jerusalem.
2 Then arose-Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his brethren, and built the altar of the God of Israel,-to offer thereon ascending-sacrifices, as it was written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 So they settled the altar upon its stands, for, dread, was upon them, because of the peoples of the countries,-therefore caused they to go up thereon, ascending-sacrifices unto Yahweh, ascending-sacrifices for the morning and for the evening.
4 And they kept the festival of booths, as it was written,-and the ascending-offering of each day upon its own day, by number, according to regulation, the matter of a day upon its day; (Note: Compare "they kept the festival" with current festivals. Generally people understand the meaning of priorities, and many people celebrate some current holidays giving thanks to God, but when something such as a birthday or Halloween occurs (compare Mark 2.27), some people tend to abandon their logic: they backslide although God gave them the gift to overcome. Provide for your families lest you be an infidel, interpret according not to the word of man but rather to the Word of God, and provide for the celebration of the birth of your child and overcome your fear of the departed (Matthew 11.11) and moreover celebrate God .).
5 and, afterwards, the continual ascending-sacrifice, and, on the new moons, and on all the appointed seasons of Yahweh, the hallowed things,-also for every one that volunteered a voluntary offering unto Yahweh.
6 From the first day of the seventh month, began they to offer up ascending-sacrifices unto Yahweh,-but, the temple of Yahweh, had not had its foundation laid. (Note: You can test your own life to see if a great foundation on the Word of God is present in you. Ask yourself why you do things, for instance, do you have mercy for your own ego or for God, or for instance, do you go to work for God, or do you go to work for money?).
7 And they gave silver, unto the masons and carpenters,-and food and drink and oil, unto them of Zidon and unto them of Tyre, to bring in cedar-trees out of the Lebanon, unto the sea of Joppa, according to the grant of Cyrus king of Persia unto them.
8 ¶ Now, in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak and the rest of their brethren-the priests and the Levites, and all that were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and stationed the Levites, of twenty years old and upwards, to preside over the work of the house of Yahweh.
9 So they took their station-even Jeshua, his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah, as one man to preside over the doer of the work in the house of God, the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren, the Levites.
10 And, when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, then the priests, enrobed, took their stand with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to offer praise unto Yahweh, after the instructions of David king of Israel.
11 And, when they made responses in offering praise and in giving thanks unto Yahweh-For he is good, for, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness, upon Israel, then, all the people, shouted with a great shout, in offering praise unto Yahweh, over the laying of the foundation of the house of Yahweh.
12 But, many of the priests and the Levites and the ancestral chiefs, who were old men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, were weeping with a loud voice,-many, however, shouting and rejoicing, with voice raised on high;
13 so that the people could not distinguish the noise of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people,-for, the people, did shout with a great shout, and, the noise, was heard afar off.
Ezra Chapter 4:
1 ¶ Now, when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard-that, the Sons of the Exile, were building the temple, unto Yahweh, God of Israel,
2 then drew they near unto Zerubbabel, and unto the ancestral chiefs, and said unto them, Let us build with you, for, like you, we seek your God, and, unto him, have, we, been sacrificing since the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.
3 But Zerubbabel and Joshua and the rest of the ancestral chiefs of Israel, said unto them, It pertaineth not to you and to us in common, to build a house unto our God,-but, we ourselves together, will build unto Yahweh, God of Israel, even as King Cyrus, king of Persia, hath commanded us.
4 Then came it to pass, that, the people of the land, were weakening the hands of the people of Judah,-and troubling them in building;
5 and hiring against them counselors, to overturn their purpose,-all the days of Cyrus, king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius, king of Persia.
6 ¶ And, in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation, against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7 And, in the days of Artaxerxes, wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates, unto Artaxerxes, king of Persia,-and, the writing of the letter, was written in Aramean, and was to be interpreted as Aramean.
8 Rehum holder of judicial authority, and Shimshai the scribe, wrote a certain letter against Jerusalem,-to Artaxerxes the king, thus:
9 Then Rehum holder of judicial authority, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates,-the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites;
10 and the rest of the peoples, whom the great and noble Osnappar hath exiled, and set in the city of Samaria,-and the rest Beyond the River, and so forth:
11 This, is a copy of the letter which they sent unto him-unto Artaxerxes the king,-Thy servants, the men Beyond the River and so forth:
12 Be it known unto the king,-that, the Jews who came up from thee unto us, are come to Jerusalem,-the rebellious and wicked city, are they building, and, the walls, have they finished, and, the foundations, will they repair.
13 Now be it known to the king, that, if this city, be built, and, the walls thereof, be finished, neither, tribute, excise, nor toll, will they render, and so, the revenue of the kings, shalt thou damage.
14 Now, because the salt of the palace we have eaten, the impoverishment of the king, it is not meet for us to see,-therefore have we sent, and certified the king; (Note: "certified" Rothrham = "inform" RSV).
15 so that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers, so shalt thou find out in the book of records-and shalt ascertain, that, this city, is a rebellious city, and one that causeth damage unto kings and provinces, and that, rebellion, have they been wont to cause in the midst thereof since the days of age-past time,-for this cause, was this city laid waste.
16 We do certify the king that, if, this city, be built, and, the walls thereof, finished, for that very reason, portion Beyond the River, shalt thou have none.
17 ¶ The king sent, a message, unto Rehum holder of judicial authority, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, who were dwelling in Samaria, and the rest Beyond the River, Peace and so forth.
18 The letter which ye sent unto us, was distinctly read before me;
19 And, from me, went forth an edict, and they have made search and found, that, this city, since the days of age-past time, against kings, hath lifted herself up,-and, sedition and rebellion, have been made therein;
20 and, mighty kings, have there been over Jerusalem, and bearing rule everywhere Beyond the River,-and, tribute, excise, and toll, have been given to them.
21 Now, issue ye an edict, to forbid these men,-that, this city, be not built, until, from me, the edict be issued.
22 Beware, then, of failure to do thus,-wherefore should the damage increase, to inflict loss on the kings?
23 Then, when, the copy of the letter of Artaxerxes the king, had been read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they journeyed in haste to Jerusalem, unto the Jews, and forbade them, with arm and force.
24 Then ceased the work of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,-yea it did cease, until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra Chapter 5:
1 ¶ Then were moved to prophesy, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo, the prophets, unto the Jews who were in Judaea and in Jerusalem,-in the name of the God of Israel, unto them.
2 Then arose-Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,-and, with them, were the prophets of God, strengthening them.
3 ¶ At that time, came unto them Tattenai pasha Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their associates,-and, thus, spake they unto them, Who hath issued unto you an edict, this house, to build, and, this wall, to complete?
4 Then, after this manner, spake we unto them,-What are the names of these men, who, this building, do rear?
5 Nevertheless, the eye of their God, was upon the elders of Judah, and they did not forbid them, until the matter, unto Darius, should come,-and, then, answer be returned by letter, concerning this.
6 A copy of the letter which Tattenai pasha Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his associates, the Apharsachites, who were Beyond the Rivet, sent unto Darius the king:
7 a message, sent they unto him,-and, thus, was it written therein, Unto Darius the king, all prosperity!
8 Be it known unto the king, that we journeyed into the province of Judah, unto the house of the Great God, and, the same, is being built with large stones, and, timber, is being laid in the walls,-and, this work, with speed, is being done, and is prospering in their hands.
9 Then asked we of these elders, thus, we said to them,-Who hath issued to you an edict, this house, to build, and, this wall, to complete?
10 Yea, their names also, asked we of them, to certify thee,-that we might write the name, of the men who are at their head.
11 And, thus, returned they, answer, to us saying,-We, are servants of the God of the heavens and the earth, and are building the house which was built these many years ago, which, a great king of Israel, built and completed.
12 But, after that our fathers had provoked the God of the heavens to wrath, he delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean,-and, this house, he destroyed, and, the people, he exiled to Babylon.
13 Howbeit, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king, issued an edict, this house of God, to build.
14 Moreover also, the utensils of the house of God, of gold and silver, which, Nebuchadnezzar, had brought forth out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, and had brought into the temple of Babylon, Cyrus the king, brought them forth, out of the temple of Babylon,-and they were delivered to one Sheshbazzar by name, whom he made, pasha;
15 and said to him-These utensils, take, go carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem,-and let, the house of God, be built in its place.
16 Then, this Sheshbazzar, came, he laid the foundations of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,-and, since then, even until now, it hath been in building, and is not finished.
17 Now, therefore, if, unto the king, it seem good, let search be made in the treasure-house of the king which is there, in Babylon, whether it be so, that, from Cyrus the king, issued an edict, to build this house of God, in Jerusalem,-and, the pleasure of the king concerning this, let him send unto us.
Ezra Chapter 6:
1 ¶ Then, Darius the king, issued an edict,-and they made search in the house of the books, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
2 And there was found in Achmetha, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a roll,-and, thus, was it written therein, as a record:-
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king, issued an edict, as to the house of God in Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they used to offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be reared,-the height thereof, sixty cubits, the breadth thereof, sixty cubits;
4 layers of large stones, three, and one layer of new timber,-and, as for the expenses, out of the house of the king, let them be given.
5 Moreover also, the utensils of the house of God, of gold and silver, which, Nebuchadnezzar, took forth out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, let them again be taken to the temple which is in Jerusalem every one to its place, and lay them up in the house of God.
6 Now, therefore, Tattenai pasha Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates, the Apharsachites, who are Beyond the River,-be ye far from thence:
7 let alone the work of this house of God,-the pasha of Judah, and the elders of Judah, this house of God, shall build upon its place;
8 And, from me, is issued an edict, as to that which ye shall do, with these elders of Judah, for the building of this house of God,-That, of the resources of the king, even the tribute Beyond the River, forthwith, the expenses be given unto these men, for they must not be hindered.
9 And, whatever may be the need-whether young bullocks or rams or lambs for ascending-sacrifices unto the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine or oil, according to the command of the priests who are in Jerusalem,-that it he given to them day by day, without fail;
10 that they may be offering sweet-smelling sacrifices unto the God of the heavens,-and be praying for the life of the king, and his sons.
11 And, from me, is issued an edict, that, any man who shall alter this message, let timber be torn out of his house, and being lifted up let him be fastened thereunto,-and his house, a dunghill, be made for this;
12 and, the God who hath caused his Name to dwell there, destroy any king or people, who shall put forth their hand to alter to destroy this house of God, which is in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued an edict, forthwith, let it be done.
13 ¶ Then, Tattenai the pasha Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates,-according as Darius the king had sent, so, forthwith, they did.
14 And, the elders of the Jews, went on building and prospering, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo,-they both built and finished, owing to the edict of the God of Israel, and owing to the edict of Cyrus and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
15 And this house was finished, by the third day of the month Adar,-the which was the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
16 Then did the sons of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the Sons of the Exile, keep the dedication of this house of God, with joy;
17 and offered, for the dedication of this house of God, bullocks, one hundred, rams, two hundred, lambs, four hundred,-and, he-goats, as a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 And they set up the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, over the service of God, which was in Jerusalem,-as it is written, in the Book of Moses.
19 And the Sons of the Exile kept the passover,-on the fourteenth of the first month;
20 for the priests and the Levites, had purified themselves, as one man, all of them, were pure,-so they slaughtered the passover for all the Sons of the Exile, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
21 Therefore the sons of Israel who had returned from the Exile and all who had separated themselves from the impurity of the nations of the land unto them, did eat,-to seek Yahweh, God of Israel;
22 and kept the festival of unleavened cakes seven days, with joy,-for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria towards them, to strengthen their hands, in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra Chapter 7:
1 ¶ Now, after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra
6 this Ezra, came up out of Babylon, he, being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh God of Israel had given,-and the king gave him, according to the hand of Yahweh his God upon him, all his request.
7 So then there came up some of the sons of Israel, and some of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem,-in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
8 And he entered Jerusalem, in the fifth month,-the same, was the seventh year of the king.
9 For, on the first of the first month, was a beginning made of coming up from Babylon,-and, on the first of the fifth month, entered he into Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
10 For, Ezra, had settled his heart, to study the law of Yahweh, and to do it,-and to teach in Israel, statute and regulation.
11 ¶ Now, this, is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave, to Ezra the priest the scribe,-the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes, for Israel:-
12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, Unto Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of the heavens-To despatch and so forth.
13 From me, is issued an edict, that, every one in my kingdom, of the people of Israel, and of their priests and the Levites, who is minded of his own freewill to go to Jerusalem, with thee, let him go.
14 Forasmuch as, from before the king and his seven counselors, thou art sent, to enquire concerning Judah and as to Jerusalem,-by the law of thy God which is in thy hand;
15 and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, who, in Jerusalem, hath his habitation;
16 and all the silver and the gold, which thou shalt find, in all the province of Babylon,-with the freewill offering of the people and of the priests offered willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem,
17 therefore, with all diligence, shalt thou buy-with this silver-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;
18 and, whatsoever, unto thee and unto thy brethren, shall seem good, with the rest of the silver and the gold, to do, according to the pleasure of your God, shall ye do.
19 And, the utensils which are freely given to thee for the service of the house of thy God, put thou back, before the God of Jerusalem.
20 And, the rest of the need of the house of thy God, which it shall fall to thee to give, thou shalt give, out of the treasure-house of the king.
21 And, from me myself, Artaxerxes the king, issueth an edict, to all the treasurers who are Beyond the River,-that, whatsoever Ezra the priest the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens shall ask of you, with diligence, shall it be done:
22 unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred measures of wheat, and unto a hundred baths of wine, and unto a hundred baths of oil,-and salt without limit.
23 Whatsoever is due to an edict of the God of the heavens, let it be done diligently, for the house of the God of the heavens,-for wherefore should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
24 And, you, we do certify, that, as touching any of the priests or the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the Nethinim, or the servitors of this house of God, tribute, excise or toll, shall it not be competent to impose upon them.
25 And, thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint thou judges and magistrates, who shall administer justice to all the people that are Beyond the River, to all who know the law of thy God,-and, whoso knoweth not, ye shall teach.
26 But, whosoever shall not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, speedily, let, penalty, be exacted from him,-whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
27 ¶ Blessed be Yahweh, God of our fathers,-who hath put the like of this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Yahweh, which is in Jerusalem;
28 and, unto me, hath extended lovingkindness, before the king and his counselors, yea all the valiant captains of the king,-I, therefore have emboldened myself, according to the hand of Yahweh my God upon me, and gathered out of Israel, chief men, to go up with me.
Ezra Chapter 8:
1 ¶ Now, these, are their ancestral heads, and their genealogical register,-even of those who came up with me, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king, out of Babylon:-
17 And I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia,-and I put into their mouth words, to speak unto Iddo and his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, to bring unto us attendants for the house of our God.
18 So they brought unto us, according to the good hand of our God upon us, a man of discretion,
21 ¶ Then proclaimed I there a fast, by the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God,-to seek of him a smooth way, for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king, a band of soldiers and horsemen, to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God, is upon all who seek him, for good, But, his power and his anger, are against all who forsake him.
23 So we fasted and sought of our God, concerning this,-and he suffered himself to be entreated by us.
24 ¶ Then I separated, from among the rulers of the priests, twelve,-even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and, with them, from among their brethren, ten;
25 and weighed unto them, the silver and the gold, and the utensils,-the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counselors and his rulers and all Israel who were present, had offered:
26 I even weighed unto their hand, of silver, six hundred and fifty talents, and, of utensils of silver, a hundred talents,-of gold, a hundred talents;
27 and, bowls of gold, twenty, of a thousand drams,-and, utensils of fine bright bronze, two, precious as gold.
28 Then said I unto them, Ye, are hallowed unto Yahweh, and, the utensils, are hallowed,-and, the silver and the gold, are a freewill offering, unto Yahweh, God of your fathers:
29 Watch and guard, until ye weigh them before the rulers of the priests and the Levites and the ancestral rulers of Israel, in Jerusalem,-in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.
30 So the priests and the Levites accepted the weight of the silver and the gold, and the utensils,-to bring to Jerusalem, unto the house of our God.
31 ¶ Then brake we up from the river of Ahava, on the twelfth of the first month, to journey unto Jerusalem,-and, the hand of our God, was upon us, and he delivered us from the grasp of the enemy and of the lier in wait, by the way.
32 So we came to Jerusalem,-and we rested there, three days.
33 And, on the fourth day, was weighed-the silver and the gold and the utensils, in the house of our God, unto the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest, and, with him, was Eleazar son of Phinehas,-and, with them, were Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui, Levites:
34 by the number and by the weight of the whole,-and all the weight, was written down, at that time.
35 They who came in out of the captivity, Sons of the Exile, offered as ascending-sacrifices unto the God of Israel-bullocks twelve for all Israel, rams ninety-six, young sheep seventy-seven, he-goats for bearing sin, twelve,-the whole, as an ascending-sacrifice unto Yahweh.
36 Then delivered they the decrees of the king, unto the satraps of the king, and the pashas Beyond the River,-and they upheld the people and the house of God.
Ezra Chapter 9:
1 ¶ Now, when these things were ended, the rulers drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not kept themselves separate from the peoples of the lands,-in view of their abominations-even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
2 for they have taken of their daughters, for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have intermingled themselves among the peoples of the lands,-and, the hand of the rulers and the deputies, hath, in this unfaithfulness, been, foremost.
3 When I heard this thing, I rent my garment, and my robe,-and tore out of the hair of my head and my beard, and sat stunned.
4 Then, unto me, were gathered, all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, concerning the unfaithfulness of them who had been exiled,-but, I, sat stunned, until the evening gift.
5 ¶ And, at the evening gift, I arose from mine affliction, which had been accompanied by the rending of my garment and my robe,-and I bowed upon my knees, and spread forth my hands unto Yahweh my God;
6 and said, O my God, I turn pale and am ashamed, to lift up, O my God, my face unto thee,-for, our iniquities, have multiplied above the head, and our guilt hath magnified itself unto the heavens.
7 Since the days of our fathers, we, have been in great guilt, until this day,-and, for our iniquities, have we been given up-we, our kings, our priests,-into the hand of the kings of the lands, by sword and by captivity and by spoiling and by a turning pale of face, as at this day.
8 And, now, for a very little moment, hath come favour from Yahweh our God, in leaving to us a remnant to escape, and in giving to us a nail in his holy place,-that our God may enlighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9 For, bondmen, we are, but, in our bondage, hath our God not forsaken us,-but extended unto us lovingkindness before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up on high the house of our God, to raise up the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10 But, now, what can we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
11 which thou didst command by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, As for the land which, ye, are entering to possess, an impure land, it is, with the impurity of the peoples of the lands,-with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to the other, with their uncleanness.
12 Now, therefore, your daughters, do not ye give to their sons, and, their daughters, do not ye take for your sons, neither shall ye seek their prosperity nor their pleasure unto times age-abiding,-to the end ye may become strong, and may eat the good of the land, and may suffer your children to possess I, unto times age-abiding.
13 And, after all that hath come upon us, for our wicked doings, and for our great guilt-For, thou, O our God, hast spared us, punishing us less than our iniquities deserved, and hast given us a deliverance such as this,
14 should we again break thy commandments and join ourselves by affinity of marriage with the peoples of these abominations,-wouldst thou not be angry with us, unto a full end, that there should be neither remainder nor deliverance?
15 O Yahweh, God of Israel, righteous thou art, for we have had left us a deliverance as at this day,-here we are, before thee, in our guilty deeds, for there is no standing before thee, because of this thing!
Ezra Chapter 10:
1 ¶ Now, when Ezra had prayed and when he had made confession, weeping and casting himself down, before the house of God, there gathered unto him out of Israel, an exceeding large convocation-men and women and children, for the people wept with a very bitter weeping.
2 Then responded Shecaniah son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam, and said unto Ezra, We, have been faithful with our God, and have married foreign women from among the peoples of the land,-yet, now, there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
3 Now, therefore, let us solemnize a covenant unto our God-to put away all the women and such as have been born of them, in the counsel of my lord, and them who tremble at the commandment of our God,-and, according to the law, let it be done.
4 Arise, for, upon thee, resteth the thing, but, we, are with thee,-be strong, and act.
5 Then arose Ezra and made the rulers of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, swear to do according to this word-and they sware.
6 ¶ Then arose Ezra from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib,-and, when he came thither, bread, did he not eat, and, water, did he not drink, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of them of the Exile.
7 Then made they a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem, unto all the Sons of the Exile, to gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
8 and, whosoever should not come within three days, according to the counsel of the rulers and the elders, all his goods should be devoted,-and, himself, be separated from the convocation of them of the Exile.
9 Then were gathered together all the men of Judah and Benjamin unto Jerusalem, within three days, the same, was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month,-and all the people remained in the broadway of the house of God, trembling concerning the thing, and because of the heavy rains.
10 Then arose Ezra the priest, and said unto them, Ye, have acted unfaithfully, and have married foreign women,-to add unto the guilt of Israel.
11 Now, therefore, make confession unto Yahweh God of your fathers, and do his pleasure,-and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
12 Then responded all the convocation and said, with a loud voice,-Thus, according to thy word concerning us, must it be done.
13 Nevertheless, the people, are many, and, the season, is that of the heavy rains, and we are not able to stand outside,-and, the business, is not one for a single day, nor yet for two, for we have abundantly transgressed, in this thing.
14 Let, we beseech thee, our rulers take up their station for all the convocation, and, all who, throughout our cities, have married foreign women, let them come in at times appointed, and, with them, the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the glow of the anger of our God be turned from us, concerning this matter.
15 ¶ Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, made a stand against this,-and, Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, helped them.
16 But the Sons of the Exile, did thus, and Ezra the priest separated to himself certain men-ancestral heads by their ancestral houses, and all of them by name,-and they took their seats on the first day of the tenth month to search into the matter;
17 and they made an end with all the men who had married foreign women,-by the first day of the first month.
26 And, of the sons of Elam, Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
44 All these, had taken foreign women,-and had begotten of them children.
Nehemiah Chapter 1:
1 ¶ The story of Nehemiah, son of Hacaliah,-and it came to pass, in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, when, I, was in Shusan the fortress,
2 that Hanani one of my brethren came, he and certain men out of Judah,-so I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3 And they said unto me, The remnant who are left of the captivity, there in the province, are in great misfortune and reproach, the wall of Jerusalem, is broken down, and, the gates thereof, are burned with fire.
4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and I mourned certain days,-and continued fasting and praying, before the God of the heavens;
5 ¶ and said, I beseech thee, O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and fearful GOD,-keeping the covenant and lovingkindness for them who love him and keep his commandments:
6 Let, I pray thee, thine ears be attentive and thine eyes open-to hearken unto the prayer of thy servant--which, I, am praying before thee now, day and night, for the sons of Israel, thy servants,--and making confession concerning the sins of the sons of Israel, which we have committed against thee, both I and the house of my father, have sinned.
7 We have dealt, very corruptly, against thee,-and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes nor the regulations, which thou didst command Moses thy servant.
8 Remember, I pray thee, the word, which thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying,-If, ye, are unfaithful, I, will scatter you among the peoples:
9 When ye return unto me and keep my commandments and do them, though it should be that ye have been driven out unto the uttermost part of the heavens, from thence, will I gather them, and bring them into the place that I have chosen to make a habitation for my Name there.
10 They, therefore, are thy servants, and thy people,-whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy firm hand.
11 I beseech thee O My Lord, let-I pray thee-thine ear be attentive unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto the prayer of thy servants who delight to revere thy Name, and oh prosper, I pray thee, thy servant to-day, and grant him compassion before this man. Now, I, was cup-bearer unto the king.
Nehemiah Chapter 2:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that, wine, was before him,-so I took up the wine, and gave unto the king, and I had never been sad before him.
2 Then said the king unto me, Wherefore is thy countenance sad, seeing that, thou, art not sick? this is nothing else, but sadness of heart. Then feared I exceedingly,
3 and said unto the king-Let the, king, unto times age-abiding, live! Wherefore should my countenance, not be sad, when, the city-the place of the sepulchres of my fathers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said to me, Concerning what, is it, thou, wouldst make request? So I prayed unto the God of the heavens,
5 and then said unto the king, If, unto the king, it seemeth good, and if thy servant might find favour before thee, That thou wouldst send me unto Judah, unto the city of the sepulchres of my fathers, that I might build it.
6 And the king said unto me, the queen, also sitting beside him, For how long would be thy journey? and when wouldst thou return? So it seemed good before the king to send me, and I set him a time.
7 Then said I unto the king, If, unto the king, it seemeth good, may, letters, be given me, unto the pashas Beyond the River,-that they may convey me over, until I come into Judah;
8 also a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the park that belongeth unto the king, that he may give me timber to build up the gates of the fortress which pertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house whereinto I shall enter. And the king gave me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
9 ¶ Then came I unto the pashas Beyond the River, and gave them the letters of the king,-now the king, had sent with me, captains of the army, and horsemen.
10 And, when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, heard of it, it vexed them, with a great vexation,-that there had come a man, to seek welfare, for the sons of Israel.
11 So I entered Jerusalem,-and was there three days.
12 Then rose I by night, I, and a few men with me, I having told no man, what, my God, had been putting in my heart, to do for Jerusalem,-and, beast, was there none with me, save the beast on which, I myself, was riding.
13 So I went forth through the valley-gate by night, even unto the front of the snake-fountain, and into the dung-gate,-and I viewed the walls of Jerusalem, how, they, were broken down, and, the gates thereof, consumed with fire.
14 Then passed I over unto the fountain-gate, and unto the pool of the king,-but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
15 Then went I up in the torrent-bed, by night, and viewed the wall,-and turned back, and entered by the valley-gate, and so returned.
16 Now, the deputies, knew not whither I had gone, nor what I was doing,-not even to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the deputies, nor to the rest who were doing the work, had I as yet told it.
17 So I said unto them, Ye, can see the misfortune that, we, are in, how that, Jerusalem, lieth waste, and, the gates thereof, are burned with fire: Come, and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may remain, no longer, a reproach.
18 Then told I them, of the hand of my God, that, it, had been good upon me, as also of the words of the king, which he had spoken unto me,-so they said, We will arise and build! and they strengthened their hands right well.
19 But, when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and poured contempt upon us,-and said, What is this thing which ye would do? against the king, would ye rebel?
20 Then answered I them, and said to them-The God of the heavens-he, will prosper us, therefore, we his servants, will arise and build,-But, to you, pertaineth no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah Chapter 3:
1 ¶ Then arose Eliashib the high priest and his brethren the priests, and built the sheep-gate, they, hallowed it, and set up the doors thereof,-even unto the tower of Hammeah, hallowed they it, unto the tower of Hananel;
2 and, at his hand, built, the men of Jericho,-and at his other hand built Zaccur, son of Imri.
3 And, the fish-gate, did the sons of Hassenaah build,-they, laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof;
4 and, at their hand, repaired, Meremoth son of Uriah son of Hakkoz, and, at their hand, repaired, Meshullum son of Berechiah son of Meshezabel,-and, at their hand, repaired, Zadok son of Baana;
5 and, at their hand, repaired, the Tekoites,-but, their chiefs, put not their neck into the service of their lords.
6 And, the old gate, did Joiada son of Paseah, and Meshullam, son of Besodeiah, repair,-they, laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof;
7 and, at their hand, repaired, Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, men of Gibeon and of Mizpah,-who pertained to the throne of the pasha Beyond the River;
8 at his hand, repaired, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, and, at his hand, repaired Hananiah son of the perfumers,-and they fortified Jerusalem, as far as the broad wall;
9 and, at their hand, repaired, Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-circuit of Jerusalem;
10 and, at their hand, repaired, Jedaiah son of Harumaph, even over against his own house,-and, at his hand, repaired, Hattush, son of Hashabneiah;
11 a second length, did Malchijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-moab, repair,-also the tower of the ovens;
12 and, at his hand, repaired, Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of a half-circuit of Jerusalem,-he and his daughters.
13 The valley-gate, did Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah, repair,-they, built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof,-also a thousand cubits in the wall, as far as the dung-gate.
14 And, the dung-gate, did Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the circuit of Beth-haccherem, repair,-he, built it, and set up the doors thereof, he locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
15 And, the fountain-gate, did Shallun son of Col-hozeh ruler of the circuit of Mizpah, repair, he, built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof,-also the wall of the pool of Shelah, by the garden of the king, even as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David;
16 after him, repaired, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of the half-circuit of Beth-zur,-as far as over against the sepulchres of David, even unto the pool which had been made, and unto the house of heroes;
17 after him, repaired, the Levites, Rehum son of Bani,-at his hand, repaired, Hashabiah, ruler of the half-circuit of Keilah, for his circuit;
18 after him, repaired, their brethren, Bavvai son of Henadad,-ruler of the other half-circuit of Keilah;
19 and there repaired at his hand, Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, a second length,-over against the ascent of the armoury, at the corner;
20 after him, zealously repaired Baruch son of Zabbai, a second length,-from the corner, unto the opening of the house of Eliashib, the high priest;
21 after him, repaired, Meremoth son of Uriah son of Hakkoz, a second length,-from the opening of the house of Eliashib, even unto the end of the house of Eliashib;
22 and, after him, repaired, the priests, the men of the Circuit;
23 after him, repaired, Benjamin and Hasshub, over against their own house,-after him, repaired, Azariah son of Maaseiah son of Ananiah, beside his own house;
24 after him, repaired, Binnui son of Henadad, a second length,-from the house of Azariah, unto the corner, even unto the pinnacle:
25 Palal, son of Uzai, from over against the corner, and the tower that projecteth from the upper house of the king, which belongeth to the court of custody,-after him, Pedaiah son of Parosh.
26 Now, the Nethinim, were dwelling in Ophel,-as far as over against the water-gate, on the east, and the tower that projecteth;
27 after him, repaired, the Tekoites, a second length,-from over against the great tower that projecteth, even unto the wall of Ophel:
28 from beside the horse-gate, repaired the priests, every one over against his own house;
29 after him, repaired, Zadok son of Immer, over against his own house,-and, after him, repaired, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the east-gate;
30 after him, repaired, Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun sixth son of Zalaph, a second length,-after him, repaired, Meshullam son of Berechiah, over against his chamber;
31 after him, repaired, Malchijah son of Zorphi, as far as the house of the Nethinim, and the traders,-over against the muster-gate, even unto the ascent of the pinnacle;
32 and, between the ascent of the pinnacle and the sheep-gate, repaired, the goldsmiths, and the traders.
Nehemiah Chapter 4:
1 ¶ But it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, it angered him, and he was greatly displeased,-and mocked the Jews;
2 and spake before his brethren, and the army of Samaria, and said, What are, these feeble Jews, doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they bring to life the stones out of the heaps of dust, when, they, have been burned up?
3 Now, Tobiah the Ammonite, was beside him,-so he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox should go up, he would break down their stone wall!
4 Hear, O our God, for we have become a contempt, and turn thou back their reproach upon their own head,-and give them up as a prey, in the land of captivity;
5 and do not cover their iniquity, and, their sin before thee, let it not be blotted out,-for they have caused vexation before them who are building.
6 So we built the wall, and all the wall was finished unto the half thereof,--and the people had a mind to work.
7 ¶ But it came to pass, when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem had gone up, that the breaches began to be stopped, that it angered them exceedingly;
8 and they conspired, all of them together, to come, to fight against Jerusalem,-and to cause it harm;
9 howbeit we prayed unto our God,-and set a watch against them, day and night, because of them.
10 Then said Judah, The strength of the burden-bearer faileth, and, the rubbish, aboundeth,-and, we, are not able to build at the wall;
11 and our adversaries have said, They shall not know, neither shall they see, until we come into their midst, and slay them,-so shall we cause the work to cease.
12 But it came to pass, when the Jews dwelling near them came in, then said they unto us, ten times, From all places whither ye shall turn, they will be upon us!
13 So I set-on the lower slopes of the place behind the wall in the waste grounds,-yea I set the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.
14 Then I looked and rose up, and said-unto the nobles and unto the deputies and unto the rest of the people, Do not ye fear because of them,-the great and fearful Lord, remember ye, so shall ye fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had overturned their counsel, then returned we, all of us, unto the wall, every man unto his work.
16 ¶ And it came to pass, from that day, the half of my young men, were working in the work, and, the half of them, were grasping the spears, the bucklers, and the bows, and the coats of mail,-but, the rulers, were behind all the house of Judah.
17 They who were building at the wall and they who were carrying burdens, they who were lifting, each man, with his one hand, was working at the work, and, with the other, was grasping the weapon.
18 Even they who were building, every man, had his sword girded upon his loins, and so was building,-and, he that sounded the horn, was by my side.
19 So I said unto the nobles and unto the deputies, and unto the rest of the people, The work, is great and large,-and, we, are separated upon the wall, far away, each man from his brother:
20 In what place soever ye shall hear the sound of the horn, thither, gather yourselves unto us,-our God, will fight for us.
21 So, we, were working at the work,-one half of them, grasping the spears, from the uprisings of the dawn, until the coming out of the stars.
22 Moreover, at that time, I said to the people, Let, every one with his young man, lodge for the night in the midst of Jerusalem,-so shall they serve us, in the night, as a watch, and, the day, for work.
23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my young men, nor the men of the watch that followed me, none of us, put off our clothes,-every one went with his weapon to the water.
Nehemiah Chapter 5:
1 ¶ Then came there to be a great outcry of the people and their wives,-against their brethren the Jews.
2 And there were some who were saying, Our sons and our daughters, are we pledging,-that we may obtain corn, and eat, and keep ourselves alive.
3 And there were some who were saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses, are we pledging,--that we may obtain corn in the dearth.
4 And there were others who were saying, We have borrowed silver, for the king’s tribute,-upon our lands and our vineyards.
5 Now, therefore, as is the flesh of our brethren, so is our flesh, as are their children, so are our children. Yet lo! we are putting in subjection our sons and our daughters, for bondservants, yea there are some of our daughters already trodden down, and we are powerless, and, our fields and our vineyards, belong to others.
6 ¶ And it angered me greatly,-when I heard their outcry, and these words.
7 So my heart took counsel unto me and I contended with the nobles and with the deputies, and said to them, A loan on interest-every man to his brother, are ye making,-So I appointed over them a great assembly;
8 and I said unto them, We, have bought our brethren the Jews, who had sold themselves unto the nations, according to our ability, and will, ye, even sell your brethren, or shall they sell themselves unto us? And they were silent, and found no answer.
9 Then said I, Not good, is the thing which ye are doing,-ought ye not, in the fear of God, to walk, because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
10 I too, then, my brethren and my young men, might be lending unto them on interest silver and corn! I pray you, let us leave off this lending on interest!
11 Restore, I pray you, unto them this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,-also the hundredth of silver and corn, new wine and oil, for which ye have been lending to them.
12 And they said, We will restore them, and, from them, will we require nothing, so, will we do, as thou, art saying. Then called I the priests, and put them on oath, to do according to this promise.
13 Also, my lap, shook I out, and said-Thus and thus, may God shake out every man who shall not confirm this promise, out of his house and out of his labour, yea, thus and thus, let him be shaken out and empty,-And all the convocation said, Amen! and praised Yahweh, and the people did according to this promise.
14 ¶ Moreover, from the day I was commanded to become their pasha in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year, even unto the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brethren, pasha’s bread, have not eaten;
15 whereas, the former pashas, who were before me, suffered themselves to be a burden upon the people, and took from them in bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver, even, their young men, bare rule over the people,-but, I, did not so, because of the fear of God.
16 Moreover also, in this work of the wall, I repaired, and, no field, did we buy,-though, all my young men, were gathered thither unto the work.
17 And, Jews and deputies, a hundred and fifty men, and they who were coming in unto us from among the nations which were round about us, depended upon my table.
18 Now, that which was prepared for a single day, was-one ox, six choice sheep, also, fowls, were prepared for me, and, apportioned unto ten days, of every sort of wine, in abundance,-yet, in spite of this, the bread of the pasha, demanded I not, because heavy was the bondage upon this people.
19 Remember unto me, O my God, for good,-all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah Chapter 6:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and there was left therein no breach,-though, up to that time, the doors, had I not set up in the gates,
2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come! and let us meet together in the villages, in the valley of Ono,-But, they, were plotting to do me harm.
3 So I sent unto them messengers, saying, A great work, am, I, doing, and cannot come down,-wherefore should the work cease whilst I leave it, and come down unto you?
4 Yet they sent unto me, according to this message, four times,-and I replied to them according to this answer.
5 Then Sanballat sent unto me, according to this message, a fifth time, by his young man,-with an open letter, in his hand:
6 wherein was written-Among the nations, it is reported, and, Gashmu, saith it, that, thou and the Jews, are plotting to rebel, for which cause, thou art building the wall,-and, thou, art to become their king, according to these words.
7 Moreover also, prophets, hast thou set up to make proclamation concerning thee in Jerusalem, saying, He hath become king in Judah! Now, therefore, will it he reported to the king, according to these words. Now, therefore, come, and let us take counsel together.
8 Then sent I unto him, saying, Nothing hath been done, according to these words, which thou art saying,-but, out of thine own heart, art thou feigning them.
9 For, they all, were seeking to put us in fear, saying, Their hands will slacken from the work, and it will not be accomplished. Now, therefore, strengthen thou my hands!
10 ¶ When, I, came into the house of Shemaiah, son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, he, being shut in, he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to slay thee, yea, by night, are they coming to slay thee.
11 Then said I, Should, such a man as I, flee? Who then, being such as I, would enter the temple to save his life? I will not enter.
12 Then perceived I, that lo! it was, not God, who had sent him,-though, a prophecy, he had spoken concerning me, but, Tobiah and Sanballat, had hired him:
13 to this end, hired, he was, to the end that I might be afraid and do so, and might sin,-and it might serve them for an evil report, to the end they might bring reproach upon me.
14 Have remembrance, O my God, of Tobiah and of Sanballat, according to these their doings,-moreover also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets, who would have put me in fear.
15 ¶ So the wall was finished, on the twenty-fifth of Elul,-in fifty-two days.
16 And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard, and all the nations that were round about us saw, that they fell greatly in their own eyes, and took knowledge that, from God, had this work been wrought.
17 Moreover, in those days, were the nobles of Judah busy with their letters which were going unto Tobiah,-and those of Tobiah were coming unto them;
18 for, many in Judah, had taken an oath to him, because he was in marriage affinity with Shecaniah son of Arah,-and, Jehohanan his son, had taken the daughter of Meshullam, son of Berechiah.
19 Moreover, his good deeds, were they telling before me, and, my affairs, were they carrying out to him,-letters, did Tobiah send to put me in fear.
Nehemiah Chapter 7:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors,-and the doorkeepers and the singers and the Levites had been appointed,
2 that I gave Hanani my brother, and Hananiah captain of the castle, charge over Jerusalem, for, he, was a truly faithful man, and revered God above many.
3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until, hot, be the sun, and, while they are standing by, let them close the doors, and make them fast,-setting watches, of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one over against his own house.
4 Now, the city, was broad on both hands, and large, but, the people, were few in the midst thereof,-and the houses had not been built.
5 ¶ So then my God put it into my heart, and I gathered together the nobles and the deputies and the people, to register their genealogy,-then found I a register roll, of them who came up at the first, and found written therein:-
6 These, are the sons of the province, who came up from among the Captives of the Exile, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did exile,-but they came back to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his own city;
7 who came in with Zerubbabel,
64 These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but it was not found,-so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;
65 and the governor told them, they must not eat of the most holy things,-until there should stand up a priest, with Lights and Perfections.
66 All the gathered host together, was forty-two thousand, three hundred, and sixty;
67 besides, their men-servants and maid-servants, were these, seven thousand, three hundred, and thirty-seven,-and, to them, pertained, singing-men and singing-women, two hundred, and forty-five:
68 their horses, were seven hundred, and thirty-six,-their mules, two hundred, and forty-five;
69 camels, four hundred, and thirty-five,-asses, six thousand, seven hundred, and twenty.
70 And, a portion of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the work,-the governor, gave unto the treasury, of gold, a thousand darics, tossing bowls, fifty, tunics for priests, five hundred, and thirty;
71 and, some of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the treasury of the work, of gold, twenty thousand darics,-and, of silver, two thousand and two hundred manehs;
72 and, that which the rest of the people gave, was, of gold, twenty thousand darics, and, of silver, two thousand manehs,-and, tunics for priests, sixty-seven.
73 So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the singers and some of the people, and the Nethinim and all Israel, took up their abode in their cities. And, when the seventh month arrived, the sons of Israel were in their cities.
Nehemiah Chapter 8:
1 ¶ Then all the people gathered themselves together as one man, into the broad way that was before the water-gate,-and they spake unto Ezra the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.
2 So then Ezra the priest brought the law, before the convocation of both men and women, and all that had understanding to hearken,-on the first day of the seventh month;
3 and read therein, before the broad place which was before the water-gate, from the time it was light, until the noon of the day, in presence of the men and the women, and such as had understanding,-and, the ears of all the people, were unto the book of the law.
4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a lofty platform of wood, which they had made for the purpose, and there stood, beside him, Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah, on his right hand,-and, on his left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, Meshullam.
5 And Ezra the scribe opened the book before the eyes of all the people, for, above all the people, was he,-and, when he opened it, all the people, stood up.
6 And Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God,-and all the people responded, Amen! Amen! with the lifting up of their hands,-and they bent their heads and bowed themselves down unto Yahweh, with their faces to the ground.
7 And, Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, did cause the people to understand the law, the people, remaining in their places.
8 So they read in the book of the law of God, distinctly,-and, giving the sense, caused them to understand the reading.
9 ¶ Then Nehemiah-he, was the governor-and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who were causing the people to understand, said unto all the people, To-day, is, holy, unto Yahweh your God, do not mourn, nor weep,-for, weeping, were all the people, when they heard the words of the law.
10 So 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 holy is the day, unto our Lord,-and be not grieved, for, the joy of Yahweh, is your strength.
11 And, the Levites, were quieting all the people, saying-Hush! for, the day, is holy,-and be not grieved.
12 And all the people went their way, to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great rejoicing,-because they had understood the words which were made known unto them.
13 ¶ And, on the second day, were gathered together-the ancestral heads of all the people, the priests and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe,-even to give attention unto the words of the law.
14 And they found written in the law,-that Yahweh gave command through Moses, that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths, during the festival of the seventh month;
15 and that they should publish and send along a proclamation throughout all their cities and throughout Jerusalem, saying, Forth to the mountain, and bring in branches of olive, and branches of oleaster, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palms, and branches of thick trees,-to make booths, as it is written.
16 So the people went forth, and brought in, and made themselves booths, every one upon his roof, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water-gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.
17 And all the convocation of them who had returned out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in booths, for, since the days of Jeshua son of Nun, had not the sons of Israel done so, unto that day,-and there was very great rejoicing.
18 So he read in the book of the law of God, day by day, from the first day unto the last day, and they kept the festival seven days, and, on the eighth day, a closing feast, according to the regulation. (Note: Here again is another great example of the people of God following the Holy Word, and holding Holy Feasts, for God.).
Nehemiah Chapter 9:
1 ¶ Now, on the twenty-fourth day of this month, were the sons of Israel gathered together, with fasting and with sackcloth, having earth upon them.
2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all the sons of the foreigner,-and stood and made confession over their own sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 So they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God, a fourth part of the day,-and, a fourth part, they were making confession and bowing themselves down, unto Yahweh their God.
4 ¶ Then stood up on the platform of the Levites, Jeshua and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani,-and made outcry, with a loud voice, unto Yahweh their God.
5 Then said the Levites-Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, Stand up, bless Yahweh your God, from age to age,-Yea let them bless thy glorious Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
6 Thou, art Yahweh, thou alone, Thou, didst make the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is thereon, the seas and all that is therein, and, thou, holdest them all in life,-and, the host of the heavens, unto thee, are bowing down.
7 Thou, art Yahweh, God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees,-and madest his name Abraham;
8 and didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst solemnize with him a covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite,-to give it unto his seed,-and didst confirm thy words, for, righteous, thou art.
9 Yea thou sawest the affliction of our fathers, in Egypt, and, their outcry, thou heardest, by the Red Sea;
10 and didst grant signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for thou hadst taken note, that they ruled proudly over them,-and so thou didst make thee a name, as at this day.
11 And, the sea, didst thou cleave asunder before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea, on dry ground,-whereas, their pursuers, thou didst cast into the depths like a stone, into the mighty waters,
12 And, in a pillar of cloud, didst thou lead them, by day,-and in a pillar of fire, by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.
13 And, upon Mount Sinai, camest thou down, and spakest with them out of the heavens,-and gavest them just regulations, and faithful laws, good statutes and commandments.
14 And, thy holy sabbath, didst thou make known to them,-and, commandments and statutes and a law, didst thou command them, through Moses thy servant.
15 And, bread out of the heavens, didst thou give them, for their hunger, and, waters out of the cliff, didst thou bring them, for their thirst,-and badest them go in to take possession of the land, which thou hadst lifted thy hand to give them.
16 But, they and our fathers, dealt proudly,-and hardened their neck, and hearkened not unto thy commandments;
17 but refused to hearken, neither kept in mind thy wonders which thou hadst done with them, but they hardened their neck, and appointed a head that they might return to their servitude, in their perverseness. But, thou, art a God of forgivenesses, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and didst not forsake them.
18 Yea, although they made them a molten calf, and said, This, is thy God, that brought thee up out of Egypt,-and wrought great insults,
19 yet, thou, in thine abounding compassions, didst not forsake them in the desert,-the pillar of cloud, departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.
20 And, thy Good Spirit, thou gavest, to instruct them,-and, thy manna, thou withheldest not from their mouth, and, water, thou gavest them, for their thirst.
21 Yea, forty years, didst thou sustain them in the desert, they lacked nothing,-their mantles, waxed not old and, their feet, swelled not.
22 And thou gavest them kingdoms, and peoples, and allotted to each of them a corner,-and they took possession of the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 Their children also, didst thou multiply, like the stars of the heavens,-and didst bring them into the land which thou hadst promised their fathers they should enter to possess;
24 so the children entered and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and deliveredst them into their hand,-with their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure;
25 and they captured fortified cities and a fat soil, and took possession of houses full of every good thing, wells digged, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit-trees, in abundance,-so they did eat and were filled and became fat, and luxuriated in thy great goodness.
26 But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee,-and they wrought great insults.
27 Therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them,-and, in the time of their distress, they made outcry unto thee, and, thou, out of the heavens, didst hear, and, according to thine abounding compassions, gavest them saviors, that they might save them out of the hand of their adversaries.
28 But, as soon as they had rest, they again wrought wickedness before thee,-and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, who bare rule over them, yet, when they again made outcry unto thee, thou, from the heavens, didst hear and didst deliver them according to thy compassions, many times;
29 and didst testify against them, to bring them back unto thy law, yet, they, dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, and, against thy regulations, they sinned, the which-if any son of earth shall do-then shall he live by them,-and yielded a rebellious shoulder, and, their neck, they stiffened, and hearkened not.
30 And thou didst suffer many years to pass over them, and didst testify against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets, yet did they not give ear,-therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31 Yet, in thine abounding compassions, thou didst not make of them an end, neither didst thou forsake them,-for, a GOD gracious and full of compassion, thou art.
32 Now, therefore, O our God-the GOD great, mighty, and fearful-keeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, which hath come upon us-on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people,-from the days of the kings of Assyria, until this day.
33 But, thou, art righteous, as to all that hath fallen upon us,-for, faithfulness, hast thou wrought, whereas, we, have been lawless;
34 and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law,-nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.
35 But, they, in their kingdom, and in thine abundant goodness which thou gavest them, and in the broad and fat land which thou didst set before them, did not serve thee, neither turned they from their wicked doings.
36 Lo! we, to-day, are bondmen-even upon the land which thou gavest our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, lo! we, are bondmen;
37 and, the increase thereof, aboundeth unto the kings whom thou hast set over us, for our sins,-and, over our bodies, are they bearing rule, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and, in great distress, we are.
38 Seeing, therefore, all this, we, are plighting our faith, and putting it in writing,-and, upon the sealed scroll, are our rulers, our Levites, our priests.
Nehemiah Chapter 10:
1 ¶ Now, upon the sealed writings, were,-Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah,
28 And, the rest of the people-the priests, the Levites, the doorkeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters,-every one having knowledge and understanding,
29 were holding fast unto their distinguished brethren, and were entering into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given through Moses the servant of God,-and to observe and do, all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his regulations, and his statutes;
30 and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land,-and, their daughters, would we not take for our sons;
31 and, if the peoples of the land should be bringing in wares, or any corn on the sabbath day, to sell, we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day,-and that we would remit the seventh year, and the loan of every hand.
32 ¶ And we laid on ourselves charges, appointing for ourselves the third of a shekel, yearly,-for the service of the house of our God:
33 for the bread to set in array, and the continual meal-offering, and for the continual ascending-sacrifice, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the appointed feasts, and for things hallowed, and for victims bearing sin, to put a propitiatory-covering over Israel,-and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 Also, lots, did we cast, concerning the offering of wood among the priests, the Levites, and the people, to bring it unto the house of our God, by our ancestral houses, at times arranged, year by year,-to burn upon the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law.
35 And that we would bring in the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruit of all fruit of all trees, year by year,-unto the house of Yahweh;
36 also that, the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law,-and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, we would bring in unto the house of our God, unto the priests who should be in attendance in the house of our God;
37 and, the first part of our meal and our heave-offerings and the fruit of all trees, new wine and oil, would we bring in unto the priests, into the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground unto the Levites,-the Levites themselves, taking the tithes in all our cities of agriculture.
38 And the priest the son of Aaron should be with the Levites, when the Levites should take the tithes,-and the Levites, should bring up the tithe of the tithe, unto the house of our God, into the chambers pertaining unto the treasure-house.
39 For, into the chambers, should the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi bring in the heave-offering of the corn, the new wine and the oil, since, there, are the utensils of the sanctuary, and the priests who are in attendance, and the doorkeepers, and the singers,-so would we not neglect the house of our God.
Nehemiah Chapter 11:
1 ¶ And the rulers of the people dwelt in Jerusalem,-and, the rest of the people, cast lots, to bring in one out of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in other cities.
2 And the people bestowed a blessing on all the men, who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
3 Now, these, are the chiefs of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, but, in the cities of Judah, dwelt every man in his possession throughout their cities, Israel, the priests, and the Levites and the Nethinim, and the Sons of the Servants of Solomon.
4 And, in Jerusalem, dwelt certain of the sons
20 ¶ But, the residue of Israel, the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
21 Howbeit, the Nethinim, were dwelling in Ophel,-and, Ziha and Gishpa, were over the Nethinim.
22 And, the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem, was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica,-of the sons of Asaph the singers, to take lead in the business of the house of God.
23 For, the commandment of the king, was upon them,-as to a fixed provision for the singers, the need of a day upon its day.
24 And, Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, son of Judah, was at the hand of the king, in every matter pertaining to the people.
25 And, as for the villages in their fields, some of the sons
36 Howbeit, of the Levites, certain courses of Judah, pertained unto Benjamin.
Nehemiah Chapter 12:
1 ¶ Now, these, are the priests and the Levites, who came up with Zerubbabel son of
23 the sons of Levi, ancestral heads, were written in the book of Chronicles,-even until the days of Johanan, son of Eliashib.
24 And, the chiefs of the Levites, Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise-to give thanks, by the commandment of David the man of God,-ward joined to ward.
25 Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were watchers, doorkeepers of the ward, in the storehouses of the gates.
26 These, were in the days of Joiakim, son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak,-and in the days of Nehemiah the pasha, and Ezra the priest the scribe.
27 ¶ And, at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites, out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem,-to keep the dedication and the rejoicing, both with thanksgiving and with music, cymbals, harps, and with lyres.
28 So the sons of the singers gathered themselves together,-both out of the circuit round about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of the Netophathites;
29 also out of Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba, and Azmaveth,-for, villages, had the singers builded for themselves, round about Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves,-and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31 Then brought I up the rulers of Judah upon the wall,-and I appointed two large choirs, even to go in procession to the right, upon the wall, towards the dung-gate;
32 and after them went Hoshaiah, and half the rulers of Judah;
33 then Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam;
34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah;
35 and, of the sons of the priests, with trumpets, Zechariah-son of Jonathan-son of Shemaiah-son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;
36 and his brethren-Shemaiah and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the instruments of music of David, the man of God,-with Ezra the scribe before them;
37 and, over they fountain gate and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall,-above the house of David, even as far as the water-gate, eastward.
38 And, the second choir, was going over against them, I, following it,-with the half of the people upon the wall, above the tower of the ovens, even as far as the broad wall;
39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and upon the old gate, and upon the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even as far as the sheep-gate,-and they came to a stand, at the gate of the guard.
40 So the two choirs, came to a stand, at the house of God,-and I, and half the deputies with me;
43 And they sacrificed, on that day, great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for, God, had caused them to rejoice with great joy, moreover also, the women and children, rejoiced,-so that the rejoicing of Jerusalem was heard afar off. (Note: So if you want people to have great joy, have them study this.).
44 ¶ And there were sot in charge, on that day, certain men, over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, out of the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law, for the priests, and for the Levites,-for, the joy of Judah, was over the priests and over the Levites, who were remaining.
45 So they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and so did the singers and the doorkeepers,-according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son.
46 For, in the days of David and Asaph, of old, there were chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving, unto God.
47 Now, all Israel-in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, used to give the portions of the singers and the doorkeepers, the need of a day upon its day,-and they hallowed them unto the Levites, and, the Levites, hallowed them unto the sons of Aaron.
Nehemiah Chapter 13:
1 ¶ On that day, a portion, was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people,-and it was found written therein, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not enter into the convocation of God, unto times age-abiding;
2 because they met not the sons of Israel, with bread and with water,-but hired against them Balaam, to curse them, although our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3 So it came to pass, when they had heard the law,-that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
4 Now, before this, Eliashib the priest, who was set over a chamber of the house of God, was allied unto Tobiah;
5 so he prepared him a large chamber, where aforetime they used to lay the meal-offering, the frankincense, and the utensils, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine and the oil, in charge of the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers,-and the heave-offerings for the priests.
6 But, throughout all this time, was I not in Jerusalem,-for, in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I came unto the king, and, at the end of certain days, obtained I leave of the king;
7 and came to Jerusalem,-and had intelligence of the wickedness which Eliashib had committed for Tobiah, in preparing for him a chamber, in the courts of the house of God;
8 and it grieved me exceedingly,-and I cast forth all the household utensils of Tobiah, outside of the chamber.
9 Then commanded I, and they purified the chambers,-and I put back there, the utensils of the house of God, the meal-offering and the frankincense.
10 ¶ Then came I to know, that, the portions of the Levites, had not been given them,-so that the Levites and the singers, who had been doing the work, had fled every one to his field.
11 Therefore contended I with the deputies, and said, Wherefore is the house of God, forsaken? So I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
12 Then, all Judah, brought in the tithe of corn, and new wine, and oil, unto the treasuries;
13 and I made treasurers over the treasuries-Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from among the Levites, and, next unto them, Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah,-for faithful were they accounted, and it was laid upon them to distribute unto their brethren.
14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this,-and do not wipe out my lovingkindnesses, which I have done for the house of my God, and for those keeping charge thereof.
15 ¶ In those days, saw I in Judah-some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves and lading asses, moreover also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, which they were bringing into Jerusalem on the sabbath day,-so I protested against it, as a day for them to sell provisions.
16 And, men of Tyre, dwelt therein, who were bringing in fish-and every kind of ware for sale,-and were selling, on the sabbath, to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem;
17 so I contended with the nobles of Judah,-and said unto them, What is this wicked thing which, ye, are doing, and profaning the sabbath day?
18 Was it not, thus, your fathers did, and our God brought upon us all this calamity, and upon this city?-and, ye, would add indignation against Israel, by profaning the sabbath!
19 And it came to pass, when the gates of Jerusalem made a shadow before the sabbath, then gave I word, and they shut the doors, and I gave word, that they should not open them, until after the sabbath,-and, some of my young men, set I near the gates, so that no burden should be brought in, on the sabbath day.
20 But the traders and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.
21 Therefore I testified against them, and said unto them, Wherefore are ye lodging against the wall? if ye do it again, a hand, will I thrust upon you,-From that time, they came not on the sabbath.
22 And I gave word to the Levites, that they should be purifying themselves and coming in, as keepers of the gates, to hallow the sabbath day. This also, remember to me, O my God, and have pity upon me, according to the abundance of thy lovingkindness.
23 ¶ Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
24 and, their children, were one-half speaking the language of Ashdod, and understood not how to speak the language of the Jews,-but after the tongue of both people.
25 So I contended with them, and laid a curse upon them, and I smote, from among them, certain men, and pulled out their hair,-and I put them on oath by God, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take of their daughters, for your sons nor for yourselves.
26 Was it not, over these things, that Solomon king of Israel sinned-though, among many nations, there was no king such as he, and he was, beloved by his God, and so God gave him to be king over all Israel,-even him, did foreign women, cause to sin.
27 Unto you, then, shall we hearken, to do all this great wickedness, to act unfaithfully with our God,-by marrying foreign wives?
28 And, one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite,-therefore I chased him from me.
29 Remember them, O my God,-on account of the Defilings of the Priesthood, and the Covenant of the Priesthood, and of the Levites.
30 So I purified them from everything foreign,-and appointed charges unto the priests and unto the Levites, every one in his work;
31 also for the offering of wood, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good!
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