Chapter 7 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up
the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
that I gave my brother Hananiah, and Hananiah, the ruler of the palace,
charge over Jerusalem.
For he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot.
And while they stand by, let them shut the doors and bar them, and appoint watches of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over
against his house.
Now the city was large and great, but the people were few therein,
and the houses were not builted.
And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles and the rulers and the
people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy.
And I found a register of the genealogy of them, which came up at the first,
and found written therein, These are the children of the province, that went up out
of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar,
the king of Babylon, had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah,
every one unto his city.
Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Rehemiah, Nehemeni,
Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispirith, Bigvi, Nehum, Baena?
The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this.
The children of Perosh, 2,170 and 2.
The children of Shephetiah, 370 and 2.
The children of Erah, 650 and 2.
The children of Pehath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.
The children of Elam, 1,250 and 4.
The children of Zatu, 840 and 5.
The children of Zechai, 703 score.
The children of Binuai, 640 and 8.
The children of Bibai, 620 and 8.
The children of Asgad, 2,320 and 2.
The children of Adonikim, 603 score and 7.
The children of Bigvi, 2,003 score and 7.
The children of Adin, 650 and 5.
The children of Eter of Hezekiah, 90 and 8.
The children of Heshem, 320 and 8.
The children of Bezai, 320 and 4.
The children of Herif, 112.
The children of Gibeon, 90 and 5.
The men of Bethlehem and Netopha, 104 score and 8.
The men of Anathoth, 120 and 8.
The men of Bethazmaveth, 40 and 2.
The men of Kirjeth-Jerum, Kephira and Beoroth, 740 and 3.
The men of Ramah and Gaber, 620 and 1.
The men of Mikmath, 120 and 2.
The men of Bethel and Ai, 120 and 3.
The men of the other Nebo, 50 and 2.
The children of the other Elam, 1,250 and 4.
The children of Herim, 320.
The children of Jericho, 340 and 5.
The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 720 and 1.
The children of Sinaia, 3,930.
The priests.
The children of Judea of the house of Jeshua, 970 and 3.
The children of Emma, 1,050 and 2.
The children of Pashur, 1,240 and 7.
The children of Herim, 1,017.
The Levites.
The children of Jeshua of Kadmiel and of the children of Hodeva, 70 and 4.
The singers.
The children of Asaph, 140 and 8.
The porters.
The children of Shalom, the children of Eta, the children of Talmon, the children
of Akob, the children of Hatayta, the children of Shobai, 130 and 8.
The Nethenims.
The children of Bessi.
The children of Meunim.
The children of Nefishasim.
The children of Bakbuk.
The children of Hekufa.
The children of Hahua.
The children of Bazlith.
The children of Mahida.
The children of Harsha.
The children of Barkos.
The children of Sisera.
The children of Tema.
The children of Neziah.
The children of Hataypha.
The children of Solomon's servants.
The children of Sotai.
The children of Sophoreth, the children of Parida, the children of Jeola,
the children of Darkon, the children of Gidul, the children of Shephetiah,
the children of Hathal, the children of Pocareth and Zubayim, the children of
Ammon.
All the Nethanims and the children of Solomon's servants were 390 in two,
and these were they which went up also from Telmila, Telherisha, Cherub,
Adon and Emma, but they could not show their father's house nor their seed
whether they were of Israel.
The children of Deliah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nakoda,
640 and 2.
And of the priests, the children of Hebea, the children of Koz, the children of
Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife and was
called after their name.
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy,
but it was not found.
Therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
And the Tershetha said unto them that they should not eat of the most holy things
till they stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and three
score.
Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven
thousand three hundred thirty and seven, and they had two hundred forty and five
singing men and singing women.
Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six.
Their mules, two hundred forty and five.
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five, six thousand seven hundred and
twenty asses.
And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work.
The Tershetha gave to the treasure a thousand grams of gold, fifty basins,
five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty
thousand grams of gold and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand grams of gold and two
thousand pound of silver and three score and seven priests' garments.
So the priests and the Levites and the porters and the singers and some of the
people and the Nephilim and all Israel dwelt in their cities.
And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.