The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And I came to the house of Shemaiah the sonne of Delaiah the sonne of Mehetabeel, and he was shut vp, and he said, Let vs come together into the house of God in the middes of the Temple, and shut the doores of the Temple: for they will come to slay thee: yea, in the night will they come to kill thee.

Then I said, Should such a man as I, flee? Who is he, being as I am, that would go into the Temple to liue? I will not goe in.

And loe, I perceiued, that God had not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecie against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Therefore was he hyred, that I might be afrayde, and doe thus, and sinne, and that they might haue an euill report that they might reproche me.

My God, remember thou Tobiah, and Sanballat according vnto these their workes, and Noadiah the Prophetesse also, and the rest of the Prophets that would haue put me in feare.

Notwithstanding the wall was finished on the fiue and twentieth day of Elul, in two and fiftie dayes.

And when all our enemies heard thereof, euen all the heathen that were about vs, they were afraid, and their courage failed them: for they knew, that this worke was wrought by our God.

And in these dayes were there many of the princes of Iudah, whose letters went vnto Tobiah, and those of Tobiah came vnto them.

For there were many in Iudah, that were sworne vnto him: for he was the sonne in lawe of Shechaniah, the sonne of Arah: and his sonne Iehonathan had the daughter of Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah.

Yea, they spake in his praise before me, and tolde him my wordes, and Tobiah sent letters to put me in feare.

Nowe when the wall was builded, and I had set vp the doores, and the porters, and the singers and the Leuites were appointed,

Then I commanded my brother Hanani and Hananiah the prince of the palace in Ierusalem (for he was doubtlesse a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many)

And I saide vnto them, Let not the gates of Ierusalem be opened, vntill the heate of the sunne: and while they stande by, let them shut the doores, and make them fast: and I appointed wardes of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, euery one in his warde, and euery one ouer against his house.

Nowe the citie was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not buylded.

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 booke of the genealogie of them, which came vp at the first, and found written therein,

These are the sonnes of the prouince that came vp from the captiuitie that was caried away (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caryed away) and they returned to Ierusalem and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie.

They which came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Biguai, Nehum, Baanah. This is the nomber of the men of the people of Israel.

The sonnes of Parosh, two thousande an hundreth seuentie and two.

The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth seuentie and two.

The sonnes of Arah, sixe hundreth fiftie and two.

The sonnes of Pahath Moab of ye sonnes of Ieshua, and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and eighteene.

The sonnes of Elam, a thousand, two hundreth fiftie and foure.

The sonnes of Zattu, eight hundreth and fiue and fourtie.

The sonnes of Zacchai, seuen hundreth and three score.

The sonnes of Binnui, sixe hundreth and eight and fourtie.

The sonnes of Bebai, sixe hundreth and eight and twentie.

The sonnes of Azgad, two thousand, three hundreth and two and twentie.

The sonnes of Adonikam, sixe hundreth three score and seuen.

The sonnes of Biguai, two thousand three score and seuen.

The sonnes of Adin, sixe hundreth, and fiue and fiftie.

The sonnes of Ater of Hizkiah, ninetie and eight.

The sonnes of Hashum, three hundreth and eight and twentie.

The sonnes of Bezai, three hundreth and foure and twentie.

The sonnes of Hariph, an hundreth and twelue.

The sonnes of Gibeon, ninetie and fiue.

The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundreth foure score and eight.

The men of Anathoth, an hundreth and eight and twentie.

The me of Beth-azmaueth, two and fourty.

The men of Kiriath-iearim, Chephirah and Beeroth, seuen hundreth, and three and fourtie.

The men of Ramah and Gaba, sixe hundreth and one and twentie.

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

The men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundreth and three and twentie.

The men of the other Nebo, two and fifty.

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

The sonnes of Harim, three hundreth and twentie.

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

The sonnes of Lod-hadid and Ono, seuen hundreth and one and twentie.

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

The Priestes: 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 thousande, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie.

The sonnes of Harim, a thousande and seuenteene.

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

The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundreth, and eight and fourtie.

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, an hundreth and eight and thirtie.

The Nethinims: the sonnes of Ziha, the sonnes of Hashupha, the sonnes of Tabaoth,

The sonnes of Keros, the sonnes of Sia, the sonnes of Padon,

The sonnes of Lebana, the sonnes of Hagaba, the sonnes of Shalmai,

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, ye sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah,

The sonnes of Besai, the sonnes of Meunim, the sonnes of Nephishesim,

The sonnes of Bakbuk, the sonnes of Hakupha, the sonnes of Harhur,

The sonnes of Bazlith, the sonnes of Mehida, the sonnes of Harsha,

The sonnes of Barkos, the sonnes of Sissera, the sonnes of Tamah,

The sonnes of Neziah, the sonnes of Hatipha,

The sonnes of Salomons seruantes, the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, ye sonnes of Perida,

The sonnes of Iaala, the sonnes of Darkon, the sonnes of Giddel,

The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth of Zebaim, the sonnes of Amon.

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

And these came vp from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, nor their seede, or if they were of Israel.

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

And of the Priestes: the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Hakkoz, the sonnes of Barzillai, which tooke one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was named after their name.

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

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

All the Congregation together was two and fourtie thousand, three hundreth and threescore,

Besides their seruantes and their maydes, which were seuen thousand, three hundreth and seuen and thirtie: and they had two hundreth and fiue and fourtie singing men and singing women.

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

The camels foure hundreth and fiue and thirtie, and sixe thousande, seuen hundreth and twentie asses.

And certaine of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the worke. The Tirshatha gaue to the treasure, a thousand drammes of golde, fiftie basins, fiue hundreth and thirtie Priests garments.

And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer.

And the rest of the people gaue twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousande pieces of siluer, and three score and seuen Priestes garments.

And the Priestes, and Leuites, and the porters and the singers and the rest of the people and the Nethinims, and all Israel dwelt in their cities: and when the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

And all the people assembled themselues together, in the streete that was before the watergate, and they spake vnto Ezra the Scribe, that hee would bring the booke of ye Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

And Ezra the Priest brought the Lawe before the Congregation both of men and women, and of all that coulde heare and vnderstand it, in the first day of the seuenth moneth,

And he read therein in the streete that was before the watergate (from the morning vntill the midday) before men and women, and them that vnderstoode it, and the eares of all the people hearkened vnto the booke of the Lawe.

And Ezra the Scribe stoode vpon a pulpit of wood which he had made for the preaching, and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Ananiah, and Vriiah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hande, and on his left hand Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

And Ezra opened the booke before all the people: for hee was aboue all the people: and when he opened it, all the people stoode vp.

And Ezra praysed the Lord the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting vp their handes: and they bowed themselues, and worshipped the Lord with their faces toward the grounde.

Also Ieshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Leuites caused the people to vnderstand the lawe, and the people stood in their place.

And they read in the booke of the Lawe of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, and caused them to vnderstand the reading.

Then Nehemiah (which is Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and scribe, and the Leuites that instructed the people, saide vnto all the people, This day is holie vnto ye Lord your God: mourne not, neither weepe: for all the people wept, whe they heard the words of the Lawe.

He saide also vnto the, Go, and eate of the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send part vnto them, for whome none is prepared: for this day is holie vnto our Lord: be ye not sorie therefore: for the ioy of the Lord is your strength.

And the Leuites made silence throughout all the people, saying, Holde your peace: for the day is holy, be not sad therefore.

Then all the people went to eate and to drinke, and to send away part, and to make great ioy, because they had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught them.

And on the second day the chiefe fathers of all the people, the Priests and the Leuites were gathered vnto Ezra the scribe, that he also might instruct them in the wordes of the Lawe.

And they found written in the Law, (that the Lord had commanded by Moses) that the children of Israel should dwel in boothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth,

And that they shoulde cause it to bee declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Go forth vnto the mount, and bring oliue branches, and pine branches, and branches of myrtus, and palme branches, and branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is written.

So the people went foorth and brought them, and made them boothes, euerie one vpon the roofe of his house, and in their courtes, and in the courtes of the house of God, and in the streete by the watergate, and in the streete of the gate of Ephraim.

And all the Congregation of them that were come againe out of the captiuitie made boothes, and sate vnder the boothes: for since the time of Ieshua the sonne of Nun vnto this day, had not the children of Israel done so, and there was very great ioy.