The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

But he rebelled moreouer against Nebuchadnezzar, which had caused him to sweare by God: and he hardened his necke and made his heart obstinate that he might not returne to the Lord God of Israel.

All the chiefe of the Priestes also and of the people trespassed wonderfully, according to all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which he had sanctified in Ierusalem.

Therefore the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising earely and sending: for he had compassion on his people, and on his habitation.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his wordes, and misused his Prophets, vntill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and till there was no remedie.

For he brought vpon them the King of the Caldeans, who slewe their yong men with the sworde in the house of their Sanctuarie, and spared neither yong man, nor virgin, ancient, nor aged. God gaue all into his hande,

And all the vessels of the house of God great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the King, and of his princes: all these caryed he to Babel.

And they burnt the house of God, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels thereof, to destroy all.

And they that were left by the sworde, caryed he away to Babel, and they were seruants to him and to his sonnes, vntill the kingdome of the Persians had rule,

To fulfill the worde of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah, vntill the lande had her fill of her Sabbaths: for all the dayes that she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seuentie yeeres.

But in the first yeere of Cyrus King of Persia (when the worde of the Lord, spoken by the mouth of Ieremiah, was finished) the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia, and he made a proclamation through all his kingdome, and also by writing, saying,

Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia, All the kingdomes of the earth hath the Lord God of heauen giuen me, and hath commanded me to build him an house in Ierusalem, that is in Iudah. Who is among you of all his people, with whom the Lord his God is? let him goe vp.

Nowe in the first yere of Cyrus King of Persia (that the worde of the Lord, spoken by the mouth of Ieremiah, might be accomplished) the Lord stirred vp the spirite of Cyrus King of Persia, and hee made a Proclamation thorowe all his Kingdome, and also by writing, saying,

Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia, The Lord God of heauen hath giuen me all the kingdomes of the earth, and he hath commanded me to builde him an house in Ierusalem, which is in Iudah.

Who is he among you of all his people with whome his God is? let him goe vp to Ierusalem which is in Iudah, and buylde the house of the Lord God of Israel: he is the God, which is in Ierusalem.

And euery one that remayneth in any place (where he soiourneth) let the men of his place relieue him with siluer and with golde, and with substance, and with cattel, and with a willing offring, for the house of God that is in Ierusalem.

Then the chiefe fathers of Iudah and Beniamin, and the Priests and Leuites rose vp, with al them whose spirit God had raysed to goe vp, to builde the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem.

And all they that were about them, strengthened their handes with vessels of siluer, with golde, with substance and with cattell, and with precious thinges, besides all that was willingly offred.

Also the King Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of Ierusalem, and had put them in the house of his god.

Euen them did Cyrus King of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them vnto Sheshbazzar the Prince of Iudah.

And this is the nomber of them, thirtie basins of golde, a thousand basins of siluer, nine and twentie kniues,

Thirtie boules of gold, and of siluer boules of the second sort, foure hundreth and tenne, and of other vessels, a thousand.

All the vessels of golde and siluer were fiue thousand and foure hundreth. Sheshbazzar brought vp all with them of the captiuitie that came vp from Babel to Ierusalem.

These also are the sonnes of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caried away vnto Babel) and returned to Ierusalem, and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie,

Which came with Zerubbabel, to wit, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel was,

The sonnes of Parosh, two thousand, an hudreth seuentie and two:

The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth, seuentie and two:

The sonnes of Arah, seuen hundreth, and seuentie and fiue:

The sonnes of Pahath Moab, of the sonnes of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and twelue:

The sonnes of Elam, a thousande, two hundreth and foure and fiftie:

The sonnes of Zattu, nine hundreth and fiue and fourtie:

The sonnes of Zaccai, seuen hundreth and threescore:

The sonnes of Bani, sixe hundreth and two and fourtie:

The sonnes of Bebai, sixe hundreth, and three and twentie:

The sonnes of Azgad a thousand, two hundreth and two and twentie:

The sonnes of Adonikam, sixe hundreth, three score and sixe:

The sonnes of Biguai, two thousand, and sixe and fiftie:

The sonnes of Adin, foure hundreth and foure and fiftie:

The sonnes of Ater of Hizkiah, ninetie and eight:

The sonnes of Bezai, three hundreth and three and twentie:

The sonnes of Iorah, an hudreth and twelue:

The sonnes of Hasshum, two hundreth and three and twentie:

The sonnes of Gibbar, ninetie and fiue:

The sonnes of Beth-lehem, an hundreth and three and twentie:

The men of Netophah, sixe and fiftie:

The men of Anothoth, an hundreth and eight and twentie:

The sonnes of Azmaueth, two and fourtie:

The sonnes of Kiriath-arim, of Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundreth and three and fourtie:

The sonnes of Haramah and Gaba, six hundreth, and one and twentie:

The men of Michmas, an hundreth and two and twentie:

The sonnes of Beth-el and Ai, two hundreth, and three and twentie:

The sonnes of Nebo, two and fiftie:

The sonnes of Magbish, an hundreth and sixe and fiftie:

The sonnes of the other Elam, a thousand, and two hundreth, and foure and fiftie:

The sonnes of Harim, three hundreth and twentie:

The sonnes of Lod-hadid, and Ono, seuen hundreth, and fiue and twentie:

The sonnes of Iericho, three hundreth and fiue and fourtie:

The sonnes of Senaah, three thousand, sixe hundreth and thirtie.

The Priests: of the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie and three:

The sonnes of Immer, a thousand and two and fiftie:

The sonnes of Pashur, a thousand, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie:

The sonnes of Harim, a thousande and seuenteene.

The Leuites: the sonnes of Ieshua, and Kadmiel of the sonnes of Hodauiah, seuentie and foure.

The Singers: the sonnes of Asaph, an hundreth and eight and twentie.

The sonnes of the porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai: all were an hundreth and nine and thirtie.

The Nethinims: the sonnes of Ziha, the sonnes of Hasupha, the sonnes of Tabbaoth,

The sonnes of Keros, the sonnes of Siaha, the sonnes of Padon,

The sonnes of Lebanah, the sonnes of Hagabah, the sonnes of Akkub,

The sonnes of Hagab, the sonnes of Shamlai, the sonnes of Hanan,

The sonnes of Giddel, the sonnes of Gahar, the sonnes of Reaiah,

The sonnes of Rezin, the sonnes of Nekoda, the sonnes of Gazzam,

The sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah, the sonnes of Besai,

The sonnes of Asnah, the sonnes of Meunim, the sonnes of Nephusim,

The sonnes of Bakbuk, the sonnes of Hakupa, the sonnes of Harhur,

The sonnes of Bazluth, the sonnes of Mehida, the sonnes of Harsha,

The sonnes of Barcos, the sonnes of Sisara, the sonnes of Thamah,

The sonnes of Neziah, the sonnes of Hatipha,

The sonnes of Salomons seruantes: the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, the sonnes of Peruda,

The sonnes of Iaalah, the sonnes of Darkon, the sonnes of Giddel,

The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the sonnes of Ami.

All the Nethinims, and the sonnes of Salomons seruants were three hundreth ninetie and two.

And these went vp from Telmelah, and from Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not discerne their fathers house and their seede, whether they were of Israel.

The sonnes of Delaiah, the sonnes of Tobiah, the sonnes of Nekoda, six hundreth and two and fiftie.

And of the sonnes of the Priestes, the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Coz, the sonnes of Barzillai: which tooke of the daughters of Barzillai the Giliadite to wife, and was called after their name.

These sought their writing of the genealogies, but they were not founde: therefore were they put from the Priesthood.

And Tirshatha saide vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy thing, tell there rose vp a Priest with Vrim and Thummim.

The whole Congregation together was two and fourtie thousande, three hundreth and threescore,

Beside their seruants and their maydes: of whome were seuen thousande, three hundreth and seuen and thirtie: and among them were two hundreth singing men and singing women.

Their horses were seuen hundreth, and sixe and thirtie: their mules, two hundreth and fiue and fourtie:

Their camels foure hundreth, and fiue and thirtie: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundreth and twentie.

And certeine of the chiefe fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord, which was in Ierusalem, they offred willingly for the house of God, to set it vp vpon his fundation.

They gaue after their abilitie vnto the treasure of the worke, euen one and threescore thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pieces of siluer, and an hundreth Priests garments.

So the Priests and the Leuites, and a certeine of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

And when the seuenth moneth was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, the people assembled themselues as one man vnto Ierusalem.

Then stoode vp Ieshua rhe sonne of Iozadak, and his brethren the Priests, and Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in ye Lawe of Moses the man of God,

And they set the altar vpon his bases (for feare was among them, because of the people of those countreis) therefore they offered burnt offrings thereon vnto the Lord, euen burnt offrings in the morning, and at euen.

They kept also the feast of the Tabernacles, as it is written, and the burnt offring dayly, by nomber according to the custome day by day,

And afterwarde the continuall bnrnt offring, both in the newe moneths and in all the feast dayes that were consecrate vnto the Lord, and in all the oblations willingly offered vnto the Lord.

From the first day of the seuenth moneth began they to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord: but the foundation of the Temple of the Lord was not layed.

They gaue money also vnto the masons, and to the workemen, and meat and drinke, and oyle vnto them of Zidon and of Tyrus, to bring them cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea vnto Iapho, according to the graunt that they had of Cyrus King of Persia.

And in the seconde yeere of their comming vnto the house of God in Ierusalem in the second moneth began Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the Priests and the Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Ierusalem, and appointed the Leuites from twentie yeere olde and aboue, to set forwarde the worke of the house of the Lord.