1Now it came to pass when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed; 2that I gave the charge of Jerusalem to my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many. 3And I said to them, Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut and bar the doors; and appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each one at his post, each across from his house. 4Now the city was broad and large, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt. 5Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it: 6These are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city. 7Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 8the sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; 9the sons of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two; 10the sons of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two; 11the sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 12the sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 13the sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five; 14the sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty; 15the sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight; 16the sons of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight; 17the sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two; 18the sons of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven; 19the sons of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven; 20the sons of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five; 21the sons of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety-eight; 22the sons of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight; 23the sons of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four; 24the sons of Hariph, one hundred and twelve; 25the sons of Gibeon, ninety-five; 26the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight; 27the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; 28the men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two; 29the men of Kirjath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three; 30the men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one; 31the men of Michmash, one hundred and twenty-two; 32the men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three; 33the men of the other Nebo, fifty-two; 34the sons of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 35the sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty; 36the sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five; 37the sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one; 38the sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. 39The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; 40the sons of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two; 41the sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; 42the sons of Harim, one thousand and seventeen. 43The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four. 44The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight. 45The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight. 46The temple slaves: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, 47the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon, 48the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Salmai, 49the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, 50the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, 51the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, 52the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephishesim, 53the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, 54the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, 55the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah, 56the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha. 57The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida, 58the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, 59the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, and the sons of Amon. 60All the temple slaves, and the sons of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two. 61And these were the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not declare their father's house nor their seed, whether they were of Israel: 62the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two; 63and of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name. 64These sought their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, but it was not found; therefore they were considered desecrated, and excluded from the priesthood. 65And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the set apart, holy, things till a priest should stand with Urim and Thummim. 66Altogether the whole assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, 67besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singing men and singing women. 68Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five, 69their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty. 70And some of the heads of the fathers gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments. 71Some of the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silver minas. 72And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments. 73So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple slaves, and all Israel dwelt in their cities. When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 Neh 7:1 Nehemiah commits the charge of Jerusalem to Hanani and Hananiah.
Neh 7:5 A register of the genealogy of them which came at the first out of Babylon;
Neh 7:9 of the people;
Neh 7:39 of the priests;
Neh 7:43 of the Levites;
Neh 7:46 of the Nethinims;
Neh 7:57 of Solomon's servants;
Neh 7:63 and of the priests which could not find their pedigree;
Neh 7:66 The whole number of them, with their substance.
Neh 7:70 Their oblations.
the wall.
Neh 3:1 -
Neh 3:32 Neh 6:15I had set up.
Neh 3:3 Neh 6:1the porters.
Neh 10:39 Neh 11:3 Neh 12:24 1Chr 23:1 -
1Chr 23:32 1Chr 25:1 -
1Chr 26:32 2Chr 31:2 Ezra 3:8 2 my brother.
Neh 1:2Hananiah.
Neh 10:23the ruler.
Neh 2:8a faithful man.
Num 12:7 Ps 101:6 Dan 6:4 Matt 24:45 Matt 25:21 Luke 16:10 -
Luke 16:12 1Cor 4:2 2Tim 2:2feared God.
Neh 5:15 Gen 42:18 Exod 18:21 2Sam 23:3 1Kgs 18:3 1Kgs 18:12 Job 1:1 Isa 33:5 Isa 33:6 3 Let not the gates. This is, the gates were not to be opened till sun-rise, and to be shut at sun-set; which is still the custom in many cities of the East. If a traveller arrives after sun-set, he finds the gates shut, and on no consideration will they open them till morning.
Neh 13:19 Ps 127:1 Matt 10:16every one to be.
Neh 3:23 Neh 3:28 -
Neh 3:30 4 large and great. Heb. broad in spaces. the houses.
Isa 58:12 Hag 1:4 -
Hag 1:6 Matt 6:33 5 my God.
Neh 5:19 Neh 6:14put into mine.
Ezra 7:27 1Cor 15:10 2Cor 3:5 2Cor 8:16 Phil 2:12 Phil 2:13 Col 1:29 Jas 1:16Whatever good motion is in our minds, whether prudent or pious, we must acknowledge it to come from God; for every good gift and every good work are from above; he gives knowledge, he gives grace. What is commonly called human prudence, ought to be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. He who teaches the husbandman discretion,
Isa 28:26, as certainly over-rules the deliberations of senators.
that.
Neh 7:64 1Chr 9:1 -
1Chr 9:9 Ezra 2:62 6 the children.
Ezra 2:1 -
Ezra 2:70 Ezra 5:8 Ezra 6:2whom Nebuchadnezzar.
2Kgs 24:14 -
2Kgs 24:16 2Kgs 25:11 2Chr 36:1 -
2Chr 36:23 Jer 39:1 -
Jer 39:18 Jer 52:1 -
Jer 52:34 7 Zerubbabel.
Neh 12:1 Neh 12:7 Neh 12:10 Ezek 1:11Sheshbazzar.
Neh 2:2 Hag 1:1 Matt 1:12 Matt 1:13Zorobabel. Jeshua.
Ezra 3:8 Ezra 3:9 Ezra 5:2 Zech 3:1 -
Zech 3:3Joshua. Azariah. One of Dr. Kennicott's codices has Seraiah, as in the parallel passage.
Ezra 2:2Seraiah, Reelaiah. Mispereth.
Ezra 2:2Mizpar. Nehum. Three MSS. in the parallel place have Nehum, and four have here Rehum.
Neh 12:3 Ezra 2:2Rehum.
8 Parosh.
Neh 10:14 Ezra 2:3 Ezra 8:3Pharosh.
Neh 10:25 9 Shephatiah.
Ezra 2:4 Ezra 8:8 10 Arah.
Neh 6:18 Ezra 2:5 11 Pahath-moab.
Neh 10:14 Ezra 2:6 Ezra 8:4 12 Elam.
Ezra 2:7 Ezra 8:7 Ezra 10:26 13 Zattu.
Ezra 2:8 14 Zaccai.
Ezra 2:9 15 Binnui.
Ezra 2:10Bani. 642.
16 Bebai.
Ezra 2:11 17 Azgad.
Ezra 2:12 18 Adonikam.
Ezra 2:13 19 Bigvai.
Ezra 2:14 20 Adin.
Ezra 2:15 21 Ater.
Ezra 2:16 22 Hashum.
Ezra 2:19 23 Bezai.
Ezra 2:17 24 Hariph. Hariph and Jorah were probably two distinct names of this person.
Ezra 2:18Jorah.
25 Gibeon. Gibeon is probably a mistake for Gibbar, or the contrary; though this person may have been called by both names.
Ezra 2:20Gibbar.
26 The men. The Septuagint reads here the same as in the parallel place, [Huioi Baithalem, hekaton eikositris; huioi Atopha (Alex. Anetopha) pentekontaex;] "The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty and three; the children of Netophah, fifty and six." Though this reading is not found in any Hebrew MS. yet collated, it is doubtless the true one.
Bethlehem.
Ezra 2:21 Ezra 2:22 27 Anathoth.
Ezra 2:23 Isa 10:30 Jer 1:1 Jer 11:21 28 Beth-azmaveth.
Ezra 2:24Azmaveth.
29 Kirjath-jearim. Instead of Kirjath-arim, in the parallel place of Ezra, many MSS. read Kirjath-jearim, as here.
Josh 9:17 Josh 18:25 Judg 18:12 Ezra 2:25Kirjath-arim.
30 Ramah.
Josh 18:24 Josh 18:25 Ezra 2:26 31 Michmas. The variation between [Mikmâsh *H4363*,]
Michmash, and [Mikmâc *H4363*,]
Michmas, arises from the mutation of [Shin,]
sheen, and [sâmek,]
samech; though several MSS. have the former reading here also.
1Sam 13:5 1Sam 13:23 Ezra 2:27 Isa 10:28Michmash.
32 Beth-el.
Josh 8:9 Josh 8:17 Ezra 2:28 33 Nebo.
Ezra 2:29fifty and two. The Alexandrian MS. of the Septuagint adds, [Huioi Magabos hekaton pentekontaex,] "The children of Magbish an hundred fifty and six," as in
Ezra 2:30.
34 the other Elam.
Neh 7:12 Ezra 2:31 35 Harim.
Ezra 2:32 Ezra 10:31 36 Jericho.
Ezra 2:34 37 Lod.
Neh 6:2 Neh 11:34 Neh 11:35 1Chr 8:12 Ezra 2:33 38 Senaah.
Ezra 2:35 39 Jedaiah.
1Chr 24:7 -
1Chr 24:19 Ezra 2:36 40 Immer.
1Chr 24:14 Ezra 2:37 41 Pashur.
1Chr 9:12 1Chr 24:9 Ezra 2:38 Ezra 10:22 42 Harim.
1Chr 24:8 Ezra 2:39 Ezra 10:31 43 Hodevah.
Ezra 2:40Hodaviah.
Neh 3:9Judah.
44 The singers.
1Chr 25:2 Ezra 2:41 45 The porters.
1Chr 26:1 -
1Chr 26:32 Ezra 2:42 46 Nethinims.
Lev 27:2 -
Lev 27:8 Josh 9:23 -
Josh 9:27 1Chr 9:2Hashupha.
Ezra 2:43Hasupha.
47 Sia.
Ezra 2:44Siaha.
48 Hagaba.
Ezra 2:45 Ezra 2:46Hagabah, or Hagab. The Alexandrian MS. of the Septuagint inserts here, [uioi Akoud, uioi Outa, weoi Ketar, weoi Agab] "the children of Akoud, the children of Outa, the children of Ketar, the children of Agab," or Hagab: see the parallel passages.
Shalmai. In the parallel passage not only the Keri and Septuagint, but many of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. read Shalmai, as here. A more extensive collation of MSS. would doubtless tend still more to harmonize both the names and numbers.
Ezra 2:46Shamlai.
49 Neh 7:49 50 Neh 7:50 51 Phaseah. This variation only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Paseah.
Ezra 2:49Paseah.
52 Meunim. The first of these variations is attributable to the translation, the original being uniformly, [Meuwni *H4586*,]
Meunim; and the latter arises from the mutation of, [Vâv,]
wav, and, [Yowd,]
yood, and insertion of, [Shin,]
sheen, though in the parallel passage the Kethiv is [Nephicim *H5304*,]
Nephisim; and here the Keri and many MSS. have [Nephuwhsecim *H5300*,]
Nephishesim. Ezra 2:50Mehunim, Nephusim.
53 Neh 7:53 54 Bazlith. Instead of Bazlith, many MSS. and the LXX. have Bazluth, as in the parallel place.
Ezra 2:52Bazluth.
55 Tamah. Here there is no variation in the original; it being uniformly Tamah.
Ezra 2:53Thamah.
56 Neh 7:56 57 Solomon's.
Neh 11:3Perida. Three MSS. have Peruda, instead of Perida, as in Ezra.
Ezra 2:55Peruda.
58 Jaala. The variation of [Yaalâ *H3279*,]
Jaalah, and [Yaalâh *H3279*,]
Jaala, merely arises from the mutation of [Hę,]
hay, into [Aleph,]
aleph, according to the Chaldee dialect.
Ezra 2:56Jaalah.
59 Amon. Instead of Amon, two of De Rossi's MSS. have Amin, and the LXX. have [Emim,] Emim; which nearly approaches the Ami of Ezra.
Ezra 2:57Ami.
60 the Nethinims.
Ezra 2:58 61 Tel-haresha. The first of these variations only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly [Tęl Charshâ *H8521*,]
Tel-harsha: the latter simply arises from the insertion of a [Vâv,]
wav; being written [Addân *H135*,]
Addan, in the parallel passage, and [Addown *H114*,]
Addon, here.
Ezra 2:59Tel-harsa, Addan. seed. or, pedigree.
62 six hundred.
Ezra 2:60 63 of the priests.
Ezra 2:61 -
Ezra 2:63Barzillai.
2Sam 17:27 2Sam 19:31 -
2Sam 19:33 1Kgs 2:7 64 These sought.
Matt 22:11 -
Matt 22:13those that were.
Neh 7:5 1Chr 9:1but it was.
Matt 25:11 Matt 25:12as polluted.
Neh 13:29 Lev 4:3 65 the Tirshatha. or, the governor.
Neh 8:9 Neh 10:1 Ezra 2:63that they should.
Lev 2:3 Lev 2:10 Lev 6:17 Lev 7:19 Lev 7:20 Lev 10:17 Lev 10:18 Lev 21:21 -
Lev 21:23till there.
Exod 28:30 Num 27:21 Deut 33:8 66 Ezra 2:64 67 their man-servants.
Isa 45:1 Isa 45:2 Jer 27:7two hundred.
Ezra 2:65 68 Ezra 2:66 Ezra 2:67 69 Here Jerome adds, in the Vulgate,
Hucusque refertur quid in commentario scriptum fuerit; exin Nehemie historia texitur: "Thus far do the words extend which were written in the register; what follows belongs to the history of Nehemiah." This addition is not found in the Hebrew, or any ancient version: it is also wanting in the Paris and Complutensian Polyglotts; but is found in the Editio Prima of the Vulgate. What follows, however, seems to relate to a distinct oblation from that recorded in Ezra; and was probably made after the people were registered by Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, or governor, at this time, as Zerubbabel had been at the first return of the Jews from captivity. Blessed be God that our faith and hope are not built upon the niceties of names and numbers, genealogy and chronology, but on the great things of the law and gospel. Whatever is given to the work of God and his cause will surely be remembered by him (
Heb 6:10).
Neh 7:69 70 some. Heb. part.
Ezra 2:68 -
Ezra 2:70the chief.
Num 7:2 -
Num 7:86 1Chr 29:3 -
1Chr 29:9The Tirshatha.
Neh 8:9 Neh 10:1drams. Darkemonim, or darics; a Persian gold coin, worth about 1Ł. 5s.
basons.
Exod 12:22 Exod 24:6 1Kgs 7:45 1Chr 28:17 2Chr 4:8 2Chr 4:11 Jer 52:19 71 chief.
Job 34:19 Luke 21:1 -
Luke 21:4 2Cor 8:12pound. Manim, manehs or minas. As a weight, the maneh was equal to 100 shekels; but as a coin, equal to 60 shekels, or about 9Ł.
72 Neh 7:72 73 all Israel. It was for the purpose of ascertaining the different families, and consequently the different cities, villages, etc., which belonged to them, according to the ancient division of the land, that the public registers were examined.
when the seventh.
Ezra 2:70 Ezra 3:1