Securing the City

1Nowe when the wall was builded, and I had set vp the doores, and the porters, and the singers and the Leuites were appointed, 2Then I commanded my brother Hanani and Hananiah the prince of the palace in Ierusalem (for he was doubtlesse a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many) 3And I saide vnto them, Let not the gates of Ierusalem be opened, vntill the heate of the sunne: and while they stande by, let them shut the doores, and make them fast: and I appointed wardes of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, euery one in his warde, and euery one ouer against his house.

The List of Returning Exiles
(Ezra 2:1–67)

4Nowe the citie was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not buylded.

5And my God put into mine heart, and I gathered the princes, and the rulers, and the people, to count their genealogies: and I found a booke of the genealogie of them, which came vp at the first, and found written therein,

6These are the sonnes of the prouince that came vp from the captiuitie that was caried away (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caryed away) and they returned to Ierusalem and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie. 7They which came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Biguai, Nehum, Baanah. This is the nomber of the men of the people of Israel. 8The sonnes of Parosh, two thousande an hundreth seuentie and two. 9The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth seuentie and two. 10The sonnes of Arah, sixe hundreth fiftie and two. 11The sonnes of Pahath Moab of ye sonnes of Ieshua, & Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and eighteene. 12The sonnes of Elam, a thousand, two hundreth fiftie and foure. 13The sonnes of Zattu, eight hundreth and fiue and fourtie. 14The sonnes of Zacchai, seuen hundreth & three score. 15The sonnes of Binnui, sixe hundreth and eight and fourtie. 16The sonnes of Bebai, sixe hundreth and eight and twentie. 17The sonnes of Azgad, two thousand, three hundreth and two and twentie. 18The sonnes of Adonikam, sixe hundreth three score and seuen. 19The sonnes of Biguai, two thousand three score and seuen. 20The sonnes of Adin, sixe hundreth, and fiue and fiftie. 21The sonnes of Ater of Hizkiah, ninetie and eight. 22The sonnes of Hashum, three hundreth & eight and twentie. 23The sonnes of Bezai, three hundreth and foure and twentie. 24The sonnes of Hariph, an hundreth and twelue. 25The sonnes of Gibeon, ninetie and fiue. 26The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundreth foure score and eight. 27The men of Anathoth, an hundreth and eight and twentie. 28The me of Beth-azmaueth, two & fourty. 29The men of Kiriath-iearim, Chephirah & Beeroth, seuen hundreth, and three and fourtie. 30The men of Ramah and Gaba, sixe hundreth and one and twentie. 31The men of Michmas, an hundreth and two and twentie. 32The men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundreth & three and twentie. 33The men of the other Nebo, two & fifty. 34The sonnes of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundreth and foure and fiftie. 35The sonnes of Harim, three hundreth and twentie. 36The sonnes of Iericho, three hundreth and fiue and fourtie. 37The sonnes of Lod-hadid and Ono, seuen hundreth and one and twentie. 38The sonnes of Senaah, three thousand, nine hundreth and thirtie.

39The Priestes: the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie & three. 40The sonnes of Immer, a thousand and two and fiftie. 41The sonnes of Pashur, a thousande, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie. 42The sonnes of Harim, a thousande and seuenteene.

43The Leuites: the sonnes of Ieshua of Kadmiel, and of the sonnes of Hodiuah, seuentie & foure. 44The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundreth, and eight and fourtie. 45The porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai, an hundreth and eight and thirtie.

46The Nethinims: the sonnes of Ziha, the sonnes of Hashupha, the sonnes of Tabaoth, 47The sonnes of Keros, the sonnes of Sia, the sonnes of Padon, 48The sonnes of Lebana, the sonnes of Hagaba, the sonnes of Shalmai, 49The sonnes of Hanan, the sonnes of Giddel, the sonnes of Gahar, 50The sonnes of Reaiah, the sonnes of Rezin, the sonnes of Nekoda, 51The sonnes of Gazzam, ye sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah, 52The sonnes of Besai, the sonnes of Meunim, the sonnes of Nephishesim, 53The sonnes of Bakbuk, the sonnes of Hakupha, the sonnes of Harhur, 54The sonnes of Bazlith, the sonnes of Mehida, the sonnes of Harsha, 55The sonnes of Barkos, the sonnes of Sissera, the sonnes of Tamah, 56The sonnes of Neziah, the sonnes of Hatipha,

57The sonnes of Salomons seruantes, the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, ye sonnes of Perida, 58The sonnes of Iaala, the sonnes of Darkon, the sonnes of Giddel, 59The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth of Zebaim, the sonnes of Amon.

60All the Nethinims, and the sonnes of Salomons seruantes were three hundreth, ninetie and two.

61And these came vp from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, nor their seede, or if they were of Israel. 62The sonnes of Delaiah: the sonnes of Tobiah, the sonnes of Nekoda, six hundreth and two and fourtie.

63And of the Priestes: the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Hakkoz, the sonnes of Barzillai, which tooke one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was named after their name. 64These sought their writing of the genealogies, but it was not founde: therefore they were put from the Priesthood. 65And the Tirshatha sayd vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy, till there rose vp a Priest with Vrim & Thummim.

66All the Congregation together was two & fourtie thousand, three hundreth and threescore, 67Besides their seruantes and their maydes, which were seuen thousand, three hundreth and seuen and thirtie: and they had two hundreth and fiue and fourtie singing men and singing women. 68Their horses were seuen hundreth and sixe and thirtie, and their mules two hundreth and fiue and fourtie. 69The camels foure hundreth and fiue and thirtie, and sixe thousande, seuen hundreth and twentie asses.

Offerings by the Exiles
(Exodus 38:21–31; Ezra 2:68–70)

70And certaine of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the worke. The Tirshatha gaue to the treasure, a thousand drammes of golde, fiftie basins, fiue hundreth and thirtie Priests garments. 71And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer. 72And the rest of the people gaue twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousande pieces of siluer, and three score & seuen Priestes garments.

73And the Priestes, and Leuites, and the porters and the singers and the rest of the people and the Nethinims, and all Israel dwelt in their cities: and when the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.