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Nehemiah","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF NEHEMIAS, WHICH IS CALLED THE SECOND OF ESDRAS\n\nThis Book takes its name from the writer, who was cupbearer to\nArtaxerxes (surnamed Longimanus) king of Persia, and was sent by him\nwith a commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. It is also called\nthe second book of Esdras; because it is a continuation of the history,\nbegun by Esdras, of the state of the people of God after their return\nfrom captivity.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 1\n\nNehemias hearing the miserable state of his countrymen in Judea,\nlamenteth, fasteth, and prayeth to God for their relief.\n\n1:1. The words of Nehemias the son of Helchias. And it came to pass in\nthe month of Casleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in the castle of\nSusa,\n\n1:2. That Hanani one of my brethren came, he and some men of Juda; and I\nasked them concerning the Jews, that remained and were left of the\ncaptivity, and concerning Jerusalem.\n\n1:3. And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the\ncaptivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach:\nand the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are\nburnt with fire.\n\n1:4. And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and mourned\nfor many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of\nheaven.\n\n1:5. And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, strong, great,\nand terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy with those that love thee,\nand keep thy commandments:\n\n1:6. Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of\nthy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the\nchildren of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children\nof Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father's\nhouse have sinned.\n\n1:7. We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy commandments,\nand ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded thy servant\nMoses.\n\n1:8. Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant,\nsaying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the\nnations:\n\n1:9. But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do them,\nthough you should be led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I\nwill gather you from thence, and bring you back to the place which I\nhave chosen for my name to dwell there.\n\n1:10. And these are thy servants, and thy people: whom thou hast\nredeemed by thy great strength, and by thy mighty hand.\n\n1:11. I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of\nthy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy\nname: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this\nman. For I was the king's cupbearer.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 2\n\nNehemias with commission from king Artaxerxes cometh to Jerusalem: and\nexhorteth the Jews to rebuild the walls.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of\nArtaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine,\nand gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his\nface.\n\n2:2. And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou\ndost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I\nknow not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great\nfear:\n\n2:3. And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my\ncountenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres\nof my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?\n\n2:4. Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request?  And I\nprayed to the God of heaven,\n\n2:5. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy\nservant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into\nJudea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.\n\n2:6. And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how\nlong shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the\nking, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.\n\n2:7. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give\nme letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they\nconvey me over, till I come into Judea:\n\n2:8. And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, to give me\ntimber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the\nwalls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king\ngave me according to the good hand of my God with me.\n\n2:9. And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and\ngave them the king's letters. And the king had sent with me captains of\nsoldiers, and horsemen.\n\n2:10. And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite,\nheard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who\nsought the prosperity of the children of Israel.\n\n2:11. And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.\n\n2:12. And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told\nnot any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there\nwas no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.\n\n2:13. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the\ndragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of\nJerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were\nconsumed with fire.\n\n2:14. And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's\naqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.\n\n2:15. And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall,\nand going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.\n\n2:16. But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did:\nneither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or\nto the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.\n\n2:17. Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are,\nbecause Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with\nfire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no\nlonger a reproach.\n\n2:18. And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the\nking's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and\nbuild. And their hands were strengthened in good.\n\n2:19. But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite,\nand Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised\nus, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel\nagainst the king?\n\n2:20. And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he\nhelpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you\nhave no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 3\n\nThey begin to build the walls: the names and order of the builders.\n\n3:1. Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests,\nand they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors\nthereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto\nthe tower of Hananeel.\n\n3:2. And next to him the men of Jericho built: and next to them built\nZachur the son of Amri.\n\n3:3. But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and set\nup the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars.  And next to them\nbuilt Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.\n\n4. And next to him built Mosollam the son of Barachias, the son of\nMerezebel, and next to them built Sadoc the son of Baana.\n\n5. And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put\ntheir necks to the work of their Lord.\n\n3:6. And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosollam the son of Besodia built\nthe old gate: they covered it and set up the doors thereof, and the\nlocks, and the bars.\n\n3:7. And next to them built Meltias the Gabaonite, and Jadon the\nMeronathite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that was in\nthe country beyond the river.\n\n3:8. And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia the goldsmith: and\nnext to him built Ananias the son of the perfumer: and they left\nJerusalem unto the wall of the broad street.\n\n3:9. And next to him built Raphaia the son of Hur, lord of the street of\nJerusalem.\n\n3:10. And next to him Jedaia the son of Haromaph over against his own\nhouse: and next to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.\n\n3:11. Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the son of Phahath Moab,\nbuilt half the street, and the tower of the furnaces.\n\n3:12. And next to him built Sellum the son of Alohes, lord of half the\nstreet of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.\n\n3:13. And the gate of the valley Hanun built, and the inhabitants of\nZanoe: they built it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and\nthe bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the gate of the\ndunghill.\n\n3:14. And the gate of the dunghill Melchias the son of Rechab built,\nlord of the street of Bethacharam: he built it, and set up the doors\nthereof, and the locks, and the bars.\n\n3:15. And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built,\nlord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up\nthe doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the\npool of Siloe unto the king's guard, and unto the steps that go down\nfrom the city of David.\n\n3:16. After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the street\nof Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the\npool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty.\n\n3:17. After him built the Levites, Rehum the son of Benni. After him\nbuilt Hasebias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his own street.\n\n3:18. After him built their brethren Bavai the son of Enadad, lord of\nhalf Ceila.\n\n3:19. And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord of Maspha, built\nanother measure, over against the going up of the strong corner.\n\n3:20. After him in the mount Baruch the son of Zachai built another\nmeasure, from the corner to the door of the house of Eliasib the high\npriest.\n\n3:21. After him Merimuth the son of Urias the son of Haccus, built\nanother measure, from the door of the house of Eliasib, to the end of\nthe house of Eliasib.\n\n3:22. And after him built the priests, the men of the plains of the\nJordan.\n\n3:23. After him built Benjamin and Hasub, over against their own house:\nand after him built Azarias the son of Maasias the son of Ananias over\nagainst his house.\n\n3:24. After him built Bennui the son of Hanadad another measure, from\nthe house of Azarias unto the bending, and unto the corner.\n\n3:25. Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the bending and the tower,\nwhich lieth out from the king's high house, that is, in the court of the\nprison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos.\n\n3:26. And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the\nwater gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.\n\n3:27. After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from\nthe great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.\n\n3:28. And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over\nagainst his house.\n\n3:29. After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house.\nAnd after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east\ngate.\n\n3:30. After him built Hanania the son of Selemia, and Hanun the sixth\nson of Seleph, another measure: after him built Mosollam the son of\nBarachias over against his treasury. After him Melcias the goldsmith's\nson built unto the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of small\nwares, over against the judgment gate, and unto the chamber of the\ncorner.\n\n3:31. And within the chamber of the corner of the flock gate, the\ngoldsmiths and the merchants built.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 4\n\nThe building is carried on notwithstanding the opposition of their\nenemies.\n\n4:1. And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were\nbuilding the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed\nat the Jews.\n\n4:2. And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans:\nWhat are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will\nthey sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones\nout of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?\n\n4:3. Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a\nfox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.\n\n4:4. Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon\ntheir own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.\n\n4:5. Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from\nbefore thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.\n\n4:6. So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half\nthereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.\n\n4:7. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians,\nand the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem\nwere made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were\nexceedingly angry.\n\n4:8. And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight\nagainst Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.\n\n4:9. And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and\nnight against them.\n\n4:10. And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed,\nand the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the\nwall.\n\n4:11. And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we\ncome in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.\n\n4:12. And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came\nand told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to\nus,\n\n4:13. I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in\norder, with their swords, and spears, and bows.\n\n4:14. And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the\nmagistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of\nthem. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your\nbrethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your\nhouses.\n\n4:15. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had\nbeen told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of us\nto the walls, every man to his work.\n\n4:16. And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their\nyoung men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears,\nand shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind\nthem in all the house of Juda.\n\n4:17. Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that\nladed: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held\na sword.\n\n4:18. For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his\nreins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.\n\n4:19. And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest\nof the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated\non the wall one far from another:\n\n4:20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run\nall thither unto us: our God will fight for us.\n\n4:21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears\nfrom the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.\n\n4:22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his\nservant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the\nnight, and by day, to work.\n\n4:23. Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that\nfollowed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped\nhimself when he was to be washed.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 5\n\nNehemias blameth the rich, for their oppressing the poor. His\nexhortation, and bounty to his countrymen.\n\n5:1. Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against\ntheir brethren the Jews.\n\n5:2. And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very\nmany: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and\nlive.\n\n5:3. And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our\nvineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.\n\n5:4. And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and\nlet us give up our fields and vineyards:\n\n5:5. And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children\nas their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our\ndaughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have\nwe wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men\npossess.\n\n5:6. And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to\nthese words.\n\n5:7. And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and\nmagistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your\nbrethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,\n\n5:8. And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our\nability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will\nyou then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their\npeace, and found not what to answer.\n\n5:9. And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not\nin the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the\nGentiles our enemies?\n\n5:10. Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn\nto many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the\ndebt that is owing to us.\n\n5:11. Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and\ntheir oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money,\nand of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to exact of\nthem, give it rather for them.\n\n5:12. And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of\nthem: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took\nan oath of them, to do according to what I had said.\n\n5:13. Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that\nshall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his\nlabours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty.  And all the\nmultitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according\nto what was said.\n\n5:14. And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in\nthe land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth\nyear of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not\neat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.\n\n5:15. But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable\nto the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every\nday forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I\ndid not so for the fear of God.\n\n5:16. Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land,\nand all my servants were gathered together to the work.\n\n5:17. The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and\nfifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the\nnations that were round about us.\n\n5:18. And there was prepared for me day be day one ox, and six choice\nrams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines,\nand many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as\ngovernor: for the people were very much impoverished.\n\n5:19. Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done\nfor this people.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 6\n\nThe enemies seek to terrify Nehemias. He proceedeth and finisheth the\nwall.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the\nArabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall,\nand that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not\nset up the doors in the gates,)\n\n6:2. Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a\nleague together in the villages, in the plain of Ono.  But they thought\nto do me mischief.\n\n6:3. And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and\nI cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to\nyou.\n\n6:4. And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I\nanswered them after the same manner.\n\n6:5. And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to\nthe former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:\n\n6:6. It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that\nthou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall,\nand hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end\n\n6:7. Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem,\nsaying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things:\ntherefore come now, that we may take counsel together.\n\n6:8. And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou\nsayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.\n\n6:9. For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands\nwould cease from the work, and that we would leave off.  Wherefore I\nstrengthened my hands the more:\n\n6:10. And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of\nMetabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of\nGod in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple,\nfor they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay\nthee.\n\n6:11. And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that\nbeing as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life?  I will not\ngo in.\n\n6:12. And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken\nto me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had\nhired him.\n\n6:13. For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing,\nand sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.\n\n6:14. Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their\nworks of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the\nprophets that would have put me in fear.\n\n6:15. But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month\nof Elul, in two and fifty days.\n\n6:16. And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all\nnations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down\nwithin themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of\nGod.\n\n6:17. Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men\nof the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.\n\n6:18. For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son\nin law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to\nwife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.\n\n6:19. And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to\nhim: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 7\n\nNehemias appointeth watchmen in Jerusalem. The list of those who came\nfirst from Babylon.\n\n7:1. Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and\nnumbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:\n\n7:2. I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of\nJerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God\nabove the rest,)\n\n7:3. And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till\nthe sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were shut,\nand barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every\none by their courses, and every man over against his house.\n\n7:4. And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the\nmidst thereof, and the houses were not built.\n\n7:5. But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and\nmagistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of\nthe number of them who came up at first and therein it was found\nwritten:\n\n7:6. These are the children of the province, who came up from the\ncaptivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the\nking of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every one\ninto his own city.\n\n7:7. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemias, Azarias, Raamias,\nNahamani, Mardochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia, Nahum, Baana.  The\nnumber of the men of the people of Israel:\n\n7:8. The children of Pharos, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.\n\n7:9. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.\n\n7:10. The children of Area, six hundred fifty-two.\n\n7:11. The children of Phahath Moab of the children of Josue and Joab,\ntwo thousand eight hundred eighteen.\n\n7:12. The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n7:13. The children of Zethua, eight hundred forty-five.\n\n7:14. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.\n\n7:15. The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-eight.\n\n7:16. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:17. The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.\n\n7:18. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-seven.\n\n7:19. The children of Beguai, two thousand sixty-seven.\n\n7:20. The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.\n\n7:21. The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.\n\n7:22. The children of Hasem, three hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:23. The children of Besai, three hundred twenty-four.\n\n7:24. The children of Hareph, a hundred and twelve.\n\n7:25. The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.\n\n7:26. The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.\n\n7:27. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:28. The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.\n\n7:29. The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred forty-\nthree.\n\n7:30. The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.\n\n7:31. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.\n\n7:32. The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.\n\n7:33. The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.\n\n7:34. The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n7:35. The children of Harem, three hundred and twenty.\n\n7:36. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.\n\n7:37. The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.\n\n7:38. The children of Senaa,  three thousand nine hundred thirty.\n\n7:39. The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine\nhundred and seventy-three.\n\n7:40. The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.\n\n7:41. The children of Phashur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.\n\n7:42. The children of Arem, one thousand and seventeen. The Levites:\n\n7:43. The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons\n\n7:44. Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:\n\n7:45. The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-eight.\n\n7:46. The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the\nchildren of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the\nchildren of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.\n\n7:47. The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the children of Hasupha, the\nchildren of Tebbaoth,\n\n7:48. The children of Ceros, the children os Siaa, the children of\nPhadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of\nSelmai,\n\n7:49. The children of Hanan, the children of Geddel, the children of\nGaher,\n\n7:50. The children of Raaia, the children of Rasin, the children of\nNecoda,\n\n7:51. The children of Gezem, the children of Asa, the children of\nPhasea,\n\n7:52. The children of Besai, the children of Munim, the children of\nNephussim,\n\n7:53. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of\nHarhur,\n\n7:54. The children of Besloth, the children of Mahida, the children of\nHarsa,\n\n7:55. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of\nThema,\n\n7:56. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,\n\n7:57. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai,\nthe children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,\n\n7:58. The children of Jahala, the children of Darcon, the children of\nJeddel,\n\n7:59. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of\nPhochereth, who was born of Sabaim, the son of Amon.\n\n7:60. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,\nthree hundred ninety-two.\n\n7:61. And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,\nAddon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor\ntheir seed, whether they were of Israel.\n\n7:62. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of\nNecoda, six hundred forty-two.\n\n7:63. And of the priests, the children of Habia, the children of Accos,\nthe children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of Berzellai\nthe Galaadite, and he was called by their name.\n\n7:64. These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and\nthey were cast out of the priesthood.\n\n7:65. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the\nholies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.\n\n7:66. All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three\nhundred sixty,\n\n7:67. Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven\nthousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and\nsinging women, two hundred forty-five.\n\n7:68. Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six: their mules two hundred\nforty-five.\n\n7:69. Their camels, four hundred thirty-five, their asses, six thousand\nseven hundred and twenty.\n\n(Hitherto is related what was written in the record. From this place\nforward goeth on the history of Nehemias.)\n\n7:70. And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work.\nAthersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls,\nand five hundred and thirty garments for priests.\n\nAthersatha... That is, Nehemias; as appears from chap. 12. Either that\nhe was so called at the court of the king of Persia, where he was\ncupbearer: or that, as some think, this name signifies governor; and he\nwas at that time governor of Judea.\n\n7:71. And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the\nwork, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds\nof silver.\n\n7:72. And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand\ndrams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven\ngarments for priests.\n\n7:73. And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singing\nmen, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and all\nIsrael dwelt in their cities.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 8\n\nEsdras readeth the law before the people. Nehemias comforteth them. They\ncelebrate the feast of tabernacles.\n\n8:1. And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in\ntheir cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to\nthe street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the\nscribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had\ncommanded to Israel.\n\n8:2. Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men\nand women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the\nseventh month.\n\n8:3. And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water\ngate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and\nall those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were\nattentive to the book.\n\n8:4. And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made\nto speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania,\nand Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left,\nPhadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and\nMosollam.\n\n8:5. And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above\nall the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.\n\n8:6. And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people\nanswered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and\nadored God with their faces to the ground.\n\n8:7. Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia,\nMaasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made\nsilence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their\nplace.\n\n8:8. And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly\nto be understood: and they understood when it was read.\n\n8:9. And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe,\nand the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy\nday to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people\nwept, when they heard the words of the law.\n\n8:10. And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and\nsend portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it\nis the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is\nour strength.\n\n8:11. And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace,\nfor the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.\n\n8:12. So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and\nto make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had\ntaught them.\n\n8:13. And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the\npeople, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras\nthe scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.\n\n8:14. And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by\nthe hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in\ntabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:\n\n8:15. And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their\ncities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch\nbranches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle,\nand branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles,\nas it is written.\n\n8:16. And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves\ntabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and\nin the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate,\nand in the street of the gate of Ephraim.\n\n8:17. And all the assembly of them that were returned from the\ncaptivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the\ndays of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so,\nuntil that day: and there was exceeding great joy.\n\n8:18. And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the\nfirst day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in\nthe eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 9\n\nThe people repent with fasting and sackcloth. The Levites confess God's\nbenefits, and the people's ingratitude: they pray for them, and make a\ncovenant with God.\n\n9:1. And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of\nIsrael came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon\nthem.\n\n9:2. And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from\nevery stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the\niniquities of their fathers.\n\n9:3. And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of\nthe Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they\nconfessed, and adored the Lord their God.\n\n9:4. And there stood up upon the step of the Levites, Josue, and Bani,\nand Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they\ncried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.\n\n9:5. And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia,\nOduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from\neternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all\nblessing and praise.\n\n9:6. Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven\nof heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are\nin it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all\nthese things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.\n\n9:7. Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth\nout of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.\n\nThe fire of the Chaldeans... The city of Ur in Chaldea, the name of\nwhich signifies fire. Or out of the fire of the tribulations and\ntemptations, to which he was there exposed.-The ancient Rabbins\nunderstood this literally, affirming that Abram was cast into the fire\nby the idolaters, and brought out by a miracle without any hurt.\n\n9:8. And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest\na covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the\nHethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the\nJebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast\nfulfilled thy words, because thou art just.\n\n9:9. And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou\ndidst hear their cry by the Red Sea.\n\n9:10. And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his\nservants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they\ndealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at\nthis day.\n\n9:11. And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through\nthe midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest\ninto the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.\n\n9:12. And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a\npillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.\n\n9:13. Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them\nfrom heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth,\nceremonies, and good precepts.\n\n9:14. Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to\nthem commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy\nservant.\n\n9:15. And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and\nbroughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and\nthou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon\nwhich thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.\n\n9:16. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks\nand hearkened not to thy commandments.\n\n9:17. And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which\nthou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the\nhead to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a\nforgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of\ncompassion, didst not forsake them.\n\nAnd gave the head... That is, they set their head, or were bent to\nreturn to Egypt.\n\n9:18. Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had\nsaid: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed\ngreat blasphemies:\n\n9:19. Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert:\nthe pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in\nthe way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which\nthey should go.\n\n9:20. And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna\nthou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for\ntheir thirst.\n\n9:21. Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was\nwanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were\nnot worn.\n\n9:22. And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots\nfor them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king\nof Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.\n\n9:23. And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and\nbroughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their\nfathers, that they should go in and possess it.\n\n9:24. And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst\nhumble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and\ngavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the\nland, that they might do with them as it pleased them.\n\n9:25. And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses\nfull of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards,\nand fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became\nfat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.\n\n9:26. But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw\nthy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished\nthem earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great\nblasphemies.\n\n9:27. And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they\nafflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee,\nand thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy\ntender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of\ntheir enemies.\n\n9:28. But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight:\nand thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had\ndominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou\nheardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.\n\n9:29. And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt\nproudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy\njudgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew\nthe shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.\n\n9:30. And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify\nagainst them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard\nnot, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the\nlands.\n\n9:31. Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them,\nnor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.\n\n9:32. Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest\ncovenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which\nhath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and\nour prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the\nking of Assur, until this day.\n\n9:33. And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because\nthou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.\n\n9:34. Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept\nthy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which\nthou hast testified among them.\n\n9:35. And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy\nmanifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat\nland, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their\nmost wicked devices.\n\n9:36. Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou\ngavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things\nthereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.\n\n9:37. And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set\nover us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over\nour beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.\n\n9:38. And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write\nit, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 10\n\nThe names of the subscribers to the covenant, and the contents of it.\n\n10:1. And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of Hachelai,\nand Sedecias,\n\n10:2. Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,\n\n10:3. Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,\n\n10:4. Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,\n\n10:5. Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,\n\n10:6. Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,\n\n10:7. Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,\n\n10:8. Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.\n\n10:9. And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of\nHenadad, Cedmihel,\n\n10:10. And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,\n\n10:11. Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,\n\n10:12. Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,\n\n10:13. Odaia, Bani, Baninu.\n\n10:14. The heads of the people, Pharos, Phahath Moab, Elam, Zethu, Bani,\n\n10:15. Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,\n\n10:16. Adonia, Begoai, Adin,\n\n10:17. Ater, Hezecia, Azur,\n\n10:18. Odaia, Hasum, Besai,\n\n10:19. Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,\n\n10:20. Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,\n\n10:21. Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,\n\n10:22. Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,\n\n10:23. Osee, Hanania, Hasub,\n\n10:24. Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,\n\n10:25. Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,\n\n10:26. Echaia, Hanan, Anan,\n\n10:27. Melluch, Haran, Baana:\n\n10:28. And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and\nsinging men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the\npeople of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and\ntheir daughters.\n\n10:29. All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with\ntheir chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would\nwalk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant\nof God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our\nGod, and his judgments and his ceremonies.\n\n10:30. And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the\nland, nor take their daughters for our sons.\n\n10:31. And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any\nthings for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy\nthem on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the\nseventh year, and the exaction of every hand.\n\n10:32. And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a\nsicle every year for the work of the house of our God,\n\n10:33. For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice,\nand for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the\nset feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that\natonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of\nour God.\n\n10:34. And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the\npeople for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the house\nof our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year to year:\nto burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law\nof Moses:\n\n10:35. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the\nfirstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house\nof our Lord.\n\n10:36. And the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is\nwritten in the law, and the firstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep, to\nbe offered in the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the\nhouse of our God.\n\n10:37. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our\nlibations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil\nto the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our\nground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our\nworks out of all the cities.\n\n10:38. And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the\ntithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their\ntithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure\nhouse.\n\n10:39. For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry\nto the treasury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and of oil: and the\nsanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing men,\nand the porters, and ministers, and we will not forsake the house of our\nGod.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 11\n\nWho were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the other cities.\n\n11:1. And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of\nthe people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the\nholy city, and nine parts in the other cities.\n\n11:2. And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered\nthemselves to dwell in Jerusalem.\n\n11:3. These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in\nJerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his\npossession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the\nNathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.\n\n11:4. And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of the children of Juda, and\nsome of the children of Benjamin: of the children of Juda, Athaias the\nson of Aziam, the son of Zacharias, the son of Amarias, the son of\nSaphatias, the son of Malaleel: of the sons of Phares,\n\n11:5. Maasia the son of Baruch, the son of Cholhoza, the son of Hazia,\nthe son of Adaia, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zacharias, the son of\nthe Silonite:\n\n11:6. All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four\nhundred sixty-eight valiant men.\n\n11:7. And these are the children of Benjamin: Sellum the son of\nMosollam, the son of Joed, the son of Phadaia, the son of Colaia, the\nson of Masia, the son of Etheel, the son of Isaia.\n\n11:8. And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.\n\n11:9. And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler, and Judas the son of Senua\nwas second over the city.\n\n11:10. And of the priests Idaia the son of Joarib, Jachin,\n\n11:11. Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc,\nthe son of Meraioth, the son of Achitob the prince of the house of God,\n\n11:12. And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eight hundred\ntwenty-two. And Adaia the son of Jeroham, the son of Phelelia, the son\nof Amsi, the son of Zacharias, the son of Pheshur, the son of Melchias,\n\n11:13. And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers: two hundred forty-\ntwo. And Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of\nMosollamoth, the son of Emmer,\n\n11:14. And their brethren who were very mighty, a hundred twenty-eight:\nand their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty.\n\n11:15. And of the Levites Semeia the son of Hasub, the son of Azaricam,\nthe son of Hasabia, the son of Boni,\n\n11:16. And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business\nof the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,\n\n11:17. And Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zebedei, the son of\nAsaph, was the principal man to praise, and to give glory in prayer, and\nBecbecia, the second, one of his brethren, and Abda the son of Samua,\nthe son of Galal, the son of Idithun.\n\n11:18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.\n\n11:19. And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the\ndoors: a hundred seventy-two.\n\n11:20. And the rest of Israel, the priests and the Levites were in all\nthe cities of Juda, every man in his possession.\n\n11:21. And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of\nthe Nathinites.\n\n11:22. And the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem, was Azzi the son of\nBani, the son of Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the son of Micha. Of the\nsons of Asaph, were the singing men in the ministry of the house of God.\n\n11:23. For the king's commandment was concerning them, and an order\namong the singing men day by day.\n\n11:24. And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel of the children of Zara the\nson of Juda was at the hand of the king, in all matters concerning the\npeople,\n\n11:25. And in the houses through all their countries. Of the children of\nJuda some dwelt at Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and at\nDibon, and in the villages thereof: and at Cabseel, and in the villages\nthereof.\n\n11:26. And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at Bethphaleth,\n\n11:27. And at Hasersuel, and at Bersabee, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:28. And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:29. And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and at Jerimuth,\n\n11:30. Zanoa, Odollam, and in their villages, at Lachis and its\ndependencies, and at Azeca and the villages thereof. And they dwelt from\nBersabee unto the valley of Ennom.\n\n11:31. And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai,\nand at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:32. At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,\n\n11:33. Asor, Rama, Gethaim,\n\n11:34. Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,\n\n11:35. And Ono the valley of craftsmen.\n\n11:36. And of the Levites were portions of Juda and Benjamin.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 12\n\nThe priests, and Levites that came up with Zorobabel. The succession of\nhigh priests: the solemnity of the dedication of the wall.\n\n12:1. Now these are the priests and the Levites, that went up with\nZorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,\n\n12:2. Amaria, Melluch, Hattus,\n\n12:3. Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,\n\n12:4. Addo, Genthon, Abia,\n\n12:5. Miamin, Madia, Belga,\n\n12:6. Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum Amoc, Helcias,\n\n12:7. Idaia. These were the chief of the priests, and of their brethren\nin the days of Josue.\n\n12:8. And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Cedmihel, Sarebia, Juda,\nMathanias, they and their brethren were over the hymns:\n\n12:9. And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their brethren every one in his\noffice.\n\n12:10. And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib\nbegot Joiada,\n\n12:11. And Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jeddoa.\n\n12:12. And in the days of Joacim the priests and heads of the families\nwere: Of Saraia, Maraia: of Jeremias, Hanania:\n\n12:13. Of Esdras, Mosollam: and of Amaria, Johanan:\n\n12:14. Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:\n\n12:15. Of Haram, Edna: of Maraioth, Helci:\n\n12:16. Of Adaia, Zacharia: of Genthon, Mosollam:\n\n12:17. Of Abia, Zechri: of Miamin and Moadia, Phelti:\n\n12:18. Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jonathan:\n\n12:19. Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:\n\n12:20. Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:\n\n12:21. Of Helcias, Hasebia: of Idaia, Nathanael.\n\n12:22. The Levites the chiefs of the families in the days of Eliasib,\nand Joiada, and Johanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded, and the priests in\nthe reign of Darius the Persian.\n\n12:23. The sons of Levi, heads of the families were written in the book\nof Chronicles, even unto the days of Jonathan the son of Eliasib.\n\n12:24. Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the\nson of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and to\ngive thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, and to\nwait equally in order.\n\n12:25. Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were\nkeepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates.\n\n12:26. These were in the days of Joacim the son of Josue, the son of\nJosedec, and in the days of Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the\npriest and scribe.\n\n12:27. And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the\nLevites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to keep\nthe dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and\nwith cymbals, and psalteries and harps.\n\n12:28. And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of the\nplain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of Nethuphati,\n\n12:29. And from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and\nAzmaveth: for the singing men had built themselves villages round about\nJerusalem.\n\n12:30. And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified\nthe people, and the gates, and the wall.\n\n12:31. And I made the princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I\nappointed two great choirs to give praise. And they went on the right\nhand upon the wall toward the dung gate.\n\n12:32. And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,\n\n12:33. And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Judas, and Benjamin, and\nSemeia, and Jeremias.\n\n12:34. And of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son\nof Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of Michaia,\nthe son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,\n\n12:35. And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai,\nNathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David\nthe man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them at the fountain gate.\n\n12:36. And they went up over against them by the stairs of the city of\nDavid, at the going up of the wall of the house of David, and to the\nwater gate eastward:\n\n12:37. And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the\nopposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the\nwall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,\n\n12:38. And above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above\nthe fish gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and\neven to the flock gate: and they stood still in the watch gate.\n\n12:39. And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the\nhouse of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.\n\n12:40. And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea, Elioenai,\nZacharia, Hanania with trumpets,\n\n12:41. And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar, and Azzi, and Johanan, and\nMelchia, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sung loud, and Jezraia was\ntheir overseer:\n\n12:42. And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and they\nrejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: their wives also\nand their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar\noff.\n\n12:43. They appointed also in that day men over the storehouses of the\ntreasure, for the libations, and for the firstfruits, and for the\ntithes, that the rulers of the city might bring them in by them in\nhonour of thanksgiving, for the priests and Levites: for Juda was joyful\nin the priests and Levites that assisted.\n\n12:44. And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of\nexpiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the\ncommandment of David, and of Solomon his son.\n\n12:45. For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were\nchief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to\nGod.\n\n12:46. And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of\nNehemias gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by\nday, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the\nsons of Aaron.\n\nSanctified... That is, they gave them that which by the law was set\naside, and sanctified for their use.\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 13\n\nDivers abuses are reformed.\n\n13:1. And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of\nthe people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the\nMoabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:\n\n13:2. Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water:\nand they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned\nthe curse into blessing.\n\n13:3. And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they\nseparated every stranger from Israel.\n\n13:4. And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the\ntreasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.\n\nOver this thing, etc... Or, he was faulty in this thing, or in this\nkind.\n\n13:5. And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up\ngifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the\nwine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing\nmen, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.\n\n13:6. But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two\nand thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king,\nand after certain days I asked the king:\n\n13:7. And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib\nhad done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the house\nof God.\n\n13:8. And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels\nof the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.\n\n13:9. And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house\nof God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.\n\n13:10. And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been\ngiven them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that\nministered were fled away every man to his own country:\n\n13:11. And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why\nhave we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I\nmade them to stand in their places.\n\n13:12. And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the\noil into the storehouses.\n\n13:13. And we set over the storehouses Selemias the priest, and Sadoc\nthe scribe, and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the son\nof Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were approved as faithful, and\nto them were committed the portions of their brethren.\n\n13:14. Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my\nkindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his\nceremonies.\n\n13:15. In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the\nsabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes,\nand figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem\non the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on\nwhich it was lawful to sell.\n\n13:16. Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner\nof wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in\nJerusalem.\n\n13:17. And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is\nthis evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day:\n\n13:18. Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all this\nevil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel\nby violating the sabbath.\n\n13:19. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at\nrest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I\ncommanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I\nset some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens\non the sabbath day.\n\n13:20. So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed\nwithout Jerusalem, once or twice.\n\n13:21. And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the\nwall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that\ntime they came no more on the sabbath.\n\n13:22. I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and\nshould come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this\nalso remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of\nthy tender mercies.\n\n13:23. In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of\nAzotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.\n\n13:24. And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could\nnot speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language\nof this and that people.\n\n13:25. And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of\nthem, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they\nwould not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters\nfor their sons, nor for themselves, saying:\n\n13:26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and\nsurely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was\nbeloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women\nof other countries brought even him to sin.\n\n13:27. And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to\ntransgress against our God, and marry strange women:\n\n13:28. And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest,\nwas son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me.\n\n13:29. Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the\nlaw of priests and Levites.\n\n13:30. So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the\ncourses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:\n\n13:31. And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the\nfirstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 16: 2 Esdras: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":11448}