Securing the City
And it happened, when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, that the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed.
And I put in charge over Jerusalem Hanani my brother, and Hananiah the officer of the fortress — for he was a man of truth, and feared God more than many.
And I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing there, let them shut the doors and bar them. And appoint watches from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his watch, and each opposite his own house.”
The List of Returning Exiles
And the city was wide on both hands, and great; but the people within it were few, and no houses were built.
And my God put it in my heart, and I gathered the nobles and the deputies and the people, to be enrolled in the genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who had come up at the first, and I found written in it:
These are the sons of the province who went up out of the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had exiled, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city —
those who came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
the sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy-two;
the sons of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two;
the sons of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two;
the sons of Pahath-moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen;
the sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
the sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five;
the sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty;
the sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight;
the sons of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight;
the sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two;
the sons of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven;
the sons of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven;
the sons of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five;
the sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;
the sons of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight;
the sons of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four;
the sons of Hariph, a hundred and twelve;
the sons of Gibeon, ninety-five;
the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight;
the men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight;
the men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two;
the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three;
the men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one;
the men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two;
the men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three;
the men of the other Nebo, fifty-two;
the sons of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
the sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty;
the sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five;
the sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one;
the sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;
the sons of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two;
the sons of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven;
the sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four.
The singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.
The 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 — a hundred and thirty-eight.
The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Shalmai,
the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,
the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephushesim,
the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,
the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amon.
All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
And these were they who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer — and they could not tell their fathers’ house and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
And of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai — who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.
These sought their writing, those enrolled in the genealogy, and it was not found; so they were barred, as defiled, from the priesthood.
And the Tirshatha said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest should stand with Urim and Thummim.
The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
besides their menservants and their maidservants — these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had singing men and singing women, two hundred
and forty-five. Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules, two hundred;
camels, four hundred and thirty-five; donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Offerings by the Exiles
And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests’ tunics.
And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ tunics.
And the priests and the Levites and the gatekeepers and the singers, and some of the people, and the temple servants, and all Israel, settled in their cities. And the seventh month arrived, and the sons of Israel were in their cities.