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Ezra · Chapter 2
Now these
are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Bavel had carried away unto Bavel, and came again unto Yerushalayim and Judah, every one unto his city;
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra'el:
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua
and
Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
The children of Beit Lechem, an hundred twenty and three.
The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.
The children of Yericho, three hundred forty and five.
The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.
The kohanim: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai,
in all an hundred thirty and nine.
The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,
The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
The children of Shelomoh’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
All the Nethinims, and the children of Shelomoh’s servants,
were
three hundred ninety and two.
And these
were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan,
and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they
were of Yisra'el:
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
And of the children of the kohanim: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
These sought their register
among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a kohen with Urim and with Thummim.
The whole congregation together
was forty and two thousand three hundred
and threescore,
Beside their servants and their maids, of whom
there were
seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and
there were
among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
Their horses
were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five;
their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
And
some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) which
is at Yerushalayim, offered freely for the house of Elohim to set it up in his place:
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred kohanim garments.
So the kohanim, and the Levites, and
some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Yisra'el in their cities.
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Ezra · Chapter 3
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Yisra'el
were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Yerushalayim.
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the kohanim, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the Elohim of Yisra'el, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as
it is
written in the torah of Mosheh the man of Elohim.
And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear
was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
even burnt offerings morning and evening.
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as
it is written, and
offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
And afterward
offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). But the foundation of the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was not
yet laid.
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of Elohim at Yerushalayim, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the kohanim and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Yerushalayim; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Then stood Jeshua
with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of Elohim: the sons of Henadad,
with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
And when the builders laid the foundation of the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), they set the kohanim in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), after the ordinance of Dawid king of Yisra'el.
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); because
he is good, for his mercy
endureth for ever toward Yisra'el. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), because the foundation of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was laid.
But many of the kohanim and Levites and chief of the fathers,
who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
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Ezra · Chapter 4
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the heikhal unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el;
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your Elohim, as ye
do;
and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Yisra'el, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our Elohim; but we ourselves together will build unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they
unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Yerushalayim.
And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter
was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Yerushalayim to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Then
wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites,
and the Elamites,
And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest
that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
This
is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him,
even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Yerushalayim, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls
thereof, and joined the foundations.
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up
again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and
so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
Now because we have maintenance from
the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city
is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
We certify the king that, if this city be builded
again,
and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and
to Shimshai the scribe, and
to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and
unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and
that
rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
There have been mighty kings also over Yerushalayim, which have ruled over all
countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
Give ye now mitsvah to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until
another mitsvah shall be given from me.
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter
was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Yerushalayim unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Then ceased the work of the house of Elohim which
is at Yerushalayim. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.