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7 1 After the wall once built, is the watch appointed. 6 They that returned from the captivity are numbered.
1 Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters, and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
2 Then I commanded my brother Hanani and Hananiah, the prince of the palace in Jerusalem (for he was doubtless a faithful man, and feared God above many)
3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened, until the heat of the sun: and while [a]they stand by, let them shut the doors, and [b]make them fast: and I appointed wards of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his ward, and everyone over against his house.
4 Now the city was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
5 And my God put into mine heart, and I gathered the princes, and the rulers, and the people, to count their genealogies: and I found a book of the genealogy of them, (A)which came up at the first, and found written therein,
6 These are the [c]sons of the province that came up from the captivity that was carried away (whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel had carried away) and they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city.
7 They which came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, [d]Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. This is the number of the men of the people of Israel.
8 The sons of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
9 The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
10 The sons of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
11 The sons of [e]Pahath-Moab of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
12 The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
13 The sons of Zattu, eight hundred and five and forty.
14 The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and three-score.
15 The sons of Binnui, six hundred and eight and forty.
16 The sons of Bebai, six hundred and eight and twenty.
17 The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and two and twenty.
18 The sons of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
19 The sons of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
20 The sons of Adin, six hundred and five and fifty.
21 The sons of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
22 The sons of Hashum, three hundred and eight and twenty.
23 The sons of Bezai, three hundred and four and twenty.
24 The sons of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
25 The [f]sons of Gibeon, ninety and five.
26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred and eight and twenty.
28 The men of Beth Azmaveth, two and forty.
29 The men of Kirjath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and three and forty.
30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and one and twenty.
31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and two and twenty.
32 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred and three and twenty.
33 The men [g]of the other Nebo, two and fifty.
34 The sons of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and four and fifty.
35 The sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
36 The sons of Jericho, three hundred and five and forty.
37 The sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred and one and twenty.
38 The sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
39 The Priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
40 The sons of Immer, a thousand and two and fifty.
41 The sons of Pashur, a thousand two hundred and seven and forty.
42 The sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
43 ¶ The Levites: the sons of Jeshua of Kadmiel, and of the sons of [h]Hodevah, seventy and four.
44 ¶ The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred and eight and forty.
45 The porters: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, an hundred and eight and thirty.
46 ¶ The [i]Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
47 The sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
48 The sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,
49 The sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
50 The sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
51 The sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,
52 The sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephishesim,
53 The sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
54 The sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
55 The sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah,
56 The sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha,
57 The sons of Solomon’s servants, the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
58 The sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
59 The sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, the sons of Amon.
60 All the Nethinim, and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred, ninety and two.
61 ¶ And these came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father’s house, nor their seed, or if they were of Israel.
62 The sons of Delaiah: the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty.
63 And of the Priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was named after their name.
64 These sought their writing of the genealogies, but it was not found: therefore they were put from the Priesthood.
65 And [j]the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy, till there rose up a Priest with (B)Urim and Thummim.
66 All the Congregation together was two and forty thousand, three hundred and threescore,
67 Besides their servants and their maids, which were seven thousand, three hundred and seven and thirty: and they had two hundred and five and forty singing men and singing women.
68 Their horses were seven hundred and six and thirty, and their mules two hundred and five and forty.
69 The camels four hundred and five and thirty, and six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
70 And certain of the chief fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure, a thousand [k]drams of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty Priest’s garments.
71 And some of the chief fathers gave unto the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred [l]pieces of silver.
72 And the rest of the people gave twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pieces of silver, and threescore and seven Priest’s garments.
73 And the Priests, and the Levites, and the porters and the singers, and the rest of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel dwelt in their cities: and when the [m]seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
8 2 Ezra gathereth together the people, and readeth to them the Law. 12 They rejoice in Israel for the knowledge of the word of God. 15 They keep the feast of Tabernacles or booths.
1 And all the people assembled themselves [n]together, in the street that was before the water gate, and they spake unto Ezra the [o]Scribe, that he would bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
2 And Ezra the Priest brought the Law before the Congregation both of men and women, and of all [p]that could hear and understand it, in the first day of the seventh month,
3 And he read therein in the street that was before the water gate (from the morning until [q]the midday) before men and women, and them that understood it, and the ears of all the people hearkened unto the book of the Law.
4 And Ezra the Scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood which he had made for the preaching, and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and on his left hand Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
5 And Ezra opened the book before all the people: for he was [r]above all the people: and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
6 And Ezra praised the Lord the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed themselves, and worshipped the Lord with their faces toward the ground.
7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites caused the people to understand the Law, and the people stood in their place.
8 And they read in the book of the Law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
9 Then Nehemiah (which is Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and Scribe, and the Levites that instructed the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God: mourn not, neither weep: for all the people [s]wept, when they heard the words of the Law.
10 He said also unto them, Go and eat of the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part unto them, for whom none is [t]prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: be ye not sorry therefore: for the [u]joy of the Lord is your strength.
11 And the Levites made silence throughout all the people, saying, Hold your peace: for the day is holy, be not sad therefore.
12 Then all the people went to eat and to drink, and to send away part, and to make great joy, because they had understood the words that they had taught them.
13 And on the second day the chief fathers of all the people, the Priests and the Levites were gathered unto Ezra the Scribe, that he also might instruct them in the words of the Law.
14 And they found written in the Law, (that the Lord had commanded Moses) that the children of Israel should dwell in (C)booths in the feast of the seventh month,
15 And that they should cause it to be declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and bring olive branches, and pine branches, and branches of [v]myrtle, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
16 So the people went forth and brought them, and made them booths, every one upon the [w]roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street by the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
17 And all the Congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity, made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the [x]time of Jeshua the son of Nun unto this day, had not the children of Israel done so, and there was very great joy.
18 And he read in the book of the Law of God every day, from the first day unto the last day. And they kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
9 The people repent, and forsake their strange wives. 5 The Levites exhort them to praise God, 6 Declaring his wonders, 26 And their ingratitude, 30 And God’s great mercies toward them.
1 In the four and twentieth day of this [y]month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.
2 (And they that were of the seed of Israel were separated from all the [z]strangers) and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the Law of the Lord their God four times on the day, and they [aa]confessed and worshipped the Lord their God four times.
4 Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God.
5 And the Levites said, even Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stand up and praise the Lord your God forever and ever, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth above all thanksgiving and praise.
6 Thou art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that are in them and thou preservest them all and the host of the heaven worshippeth thee.
7 Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of (D)Ur in Chaldeans, and (E)madest his name Abraham,
8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, (F)and madest a Covenant with him, to give unto his seed the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy words, because thou art just.
9 (G)Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea,
10 And showed tokens and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day.
11 (H)For thou didst break up the Sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry land: and those that pursued them, hast thou cast into the bottoms as a stone, in the mighty waters:
12 And (I)leddest them in the day with a pillar of a cloud, and in the night with a pillar of fire to give them light in the way that they went.
13 (J)Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, ordinances and good Commandments,
14 And declaredst unto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
15 (K)And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, (L)and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst: and (M)promisedst them that they should go in, and take possession of the land: for the which thou hadst lifted up thine hand for to give them.
16 But they and our fathers behaved themselves proudly and hardened their neck, so that they hearkened not unto thy Commandments,
17 But refused to obey, and would not remember thy marvelous works that thou hadst done for them, but hardened their necks, and had in their heads to return to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gracious and full of compassion, of long-suffering, and of great mercy, yet forsookest them not.
18 Moreover, when they made them a molten calf (and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt) and committed great blasphemies,
19 Yet thou for thy great mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: (N)the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way whereby they should go.
20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
21 Thou didst also feed them forty years in the wilderness: they lacked nothing: (O)their clothes waxed not old, and their feet [ab]swelled not.
22 And thou gavest them kingdoms and people, and [ac]scatteredst them into corners: so they possessed (P)the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 And thou didst multiply their children like the stars of the heaven, and broughtest them into the land, whereof thou hadst spoken unto their fathers, that they should go, and possess it.
24 So the children went in, and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, even the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, that they might do with them what they would.
25 And they took their strong cities and the fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, cisterns dug out, vineyards and olives, and trees for food in abundance, and they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and lived in pleasure through thy great goodness.
26 Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Law behind their backs, and slew thy Prophets (which [ad]protested among them to turn them unto thee) and committed great blasphemies.
27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies that vexed them: yet in the time of their affliction, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heaven, and through thy great mercies thou gavest them saviors, who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
28 But when they had [ae]rest, they returned to do evil before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them, yet when they converted and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven, and deliveredst them according to thy great mercies many times,
29 And protestedst among them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy Law: but they behaved themselves proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments ((Q)which a man should do and live in them) and [af]pulled away the shoulder, and were stiff-necked, and would not [ag]hear.
30 Yet thou [ah]didst forbear them many years, and protestedst among them by thy Spirit, even by the hand of thy Prophets, but they would not hear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
31 Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
32 Now therefore our God, (R)thou great God, mighty and terrible, that keepest covenant and (S)mercy, let not all the affliction that hath come unto us, seem a little before thee, that is, to our Kings, to our Princes, and to our Priests, and to our Prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people since the time of the [ai]kings of Assyria unto this day.
33 Surely thou art just in all that is come upon us: for thou hast [aj]dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
34 And our kings and our princes, our priests and our fathers have not done thy Law, nor regarded thy commandments, nor thy protestations, wherewith thou hast [ak]protested among them.
35 And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou showedst unto them, and in the large and fat land which thou didst set before them, and have not converted from their evil works.
36 Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers, to eat the [al]fruit thereof, and the goodness thereof, behold, we are servants therein.
37 And it yieldeth much fruit unto the kings whom thou hast set over us, because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great affliction.
38 Now because of all this we make [am]a sure covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our Priests seal unto it.
3 1 Peter goeth into the Temple with John, 2 healeth the cripple. 9 To the people gathered together to see the miracle, 12 he expoundeth the mystery of our salvation through Christ, 14 accusing their ingratitude, 19 and requiring the repentance.
1 Now [a]Peter and John went up together into the Temple, at the ninth hour of prayer.
2 And a certain man which was a cripple from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the Temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the Temple,
3 Who seeing Peter and John, that they would enter into the Temple, desiring to receive an alms.
4 And Peter earnestly beholding him with John, said, Look on us.
5 And he [b]gave heed unto them, trusting to receive some thing of them.
6 Then said Peter, Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, that give I thee: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8 And he leaped up, stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping, and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walk, and praising God.
10 And they knew him, that it was he which sat for the alms at the Beautiful gate of the Temple: and they were amazed, and sore astonied at that which was come unto him.
11 ¶ And as the cripple which was healed, [c]held Peter and John, all the people ran amazed unto them in the porch which is called Solomon’s.
12 [d]So when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so steadfastly on us, as though by our own power or godliness, we had made this man go?
13 The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the (A)God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom ye betrayed, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged him to be delivered.
14 But ye denied the Holy one and the just, and desired a murderer to be given you,
15 And killed the Lord [e]of life, whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.
16 And his Name hath made this man sound, whom ye see and know, through faith in his Name: [f]and the faith which is by him, hath given to him this perfect health of his whole body in the presence of you all.
17 [g]And now brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your governors.
18 But those things, which God before had showed [h]by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.
19 Amend your lives therefore, and turn, that your sins may be put away, when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you.
21 [i]Whom the heaven must contain until the time that all things be restored, which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.
22 (B)For Moses said unto the Fathers, The Lord your God shall raise up unto you [j]a Prophet, even of your brethren, like unto me: ye shall hear him in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 For it shall be that every person which shall not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed out of the people.
24 Also all the Prophets [k]from Samuel, and thenceforth as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
25 [l]Ye are the [m]children of the Prophets, and of the covenant, which God hath made unto our fathers, saying to Abraham, (C)Even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 First unto you hath God [n]raised up his Son Jesus, and him he hath sent to bless you, in turning everyone of you from your iniquities.
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