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    <book number='15' name='Ezra' abbreviation='Ezra' testament='old'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs>might be <strongs hebrew='3615'>fulfilled</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>stirred <strongs hebrew='5782'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, that he made a <strongs hebrew='5674 6963'>proclamation</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, and <em>put</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4385'>writing</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6485 5921'>charged</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> <em>there</em> among you of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>? his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and let him go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>,) <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>whosoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>remaineth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourneth</strongs>, let the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>help</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='7399'>goods</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='929'>beasts</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5973'>beside</strongs>the freewill <strongs hebrew='5071'>offering</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>whose <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5782'>raised</strongs>, to go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>they that <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='7399'>goods</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='929'>beasts</strongs>, and with precious <strongs hebrew='4030'>things</strongs>, beside <strongs hebrew='905 5921 3605'>all</strongs><em>that</em> was willingly <strongs hebrew='5068'>offered</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Also <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>had brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Even those did <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4990'>Mithredath</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1489'>treasurer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5608'>numbered</strongs>them unto <strongs hebrew='8339'>Sheshbazzar</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5387'>prince</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>this</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of them: <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='105'>chargers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='105'>chargers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='4252'>knives</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='7970'>Thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3713'>basins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='3713'>basins</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='4932'>second</strongs><em>sort</em> <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs><em>these</em> did <strongs hebrew='8339'>Sheshbazzar</strongs>bring <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><em>them</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs>that were brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 894'>Babylon</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4082'>province</strongs>that went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7628'>captivity</strongs>, of those which had been carried <strongs hebrew='1473'>away</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>had carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, and came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='834'>Which</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='2216'>Zerubbabel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5166'>Nehemiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8304'>Seraiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7480'>Reelaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1114'>Bilshan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4558'>Mispar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='902'>Bigvai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7348'>Rehum</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1196'>Baanah</strongs>. The <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6551'>Parosh</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8203'>Shephatiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='733'>Arah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6355'>Pahath</strongs>-moab, of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3097'>Joab</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5867'>Elam</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2240'>Zattu</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2140'>Zaccai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1137'>Bani</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='893'>Bebai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5803'>Azgad</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='140'>Adonikam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8346'>sixty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='902'>Bigvai</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5720'>Adin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='333'>Ater</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8673'>ninety</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1209'>Bezai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3139'>Jorah</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2828'>Hashum</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1402'>Gibbar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8673'>ninety</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>The <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5199'>Netophah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>The <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6068'>Anathoth</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5820'>Azmaveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-arim, <strongs hebrew='3716'>Chephirah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='881'>Beeroth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1387'>Gaba</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>The <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmas</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>The <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5857'>Ai</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5015'>Nebo</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4019'>Magbish</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='5867'>Elam</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2766'>Harim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3850'>Lod</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2307'>Hadid</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='207'>Ono</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5570'>Senaah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>The <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3048'>Jedaiah</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='564'>Immer</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6583'>Pashur</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2766'>Harim</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651 6240'>seventeen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>The <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6934'>Kadmiel</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1938'>Hodaviah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>The <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='333'>Ater</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2929'>Talmon</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6126'>Akkub</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2410'>Hatita</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7630'>Shobai</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'>The <strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6727'>Ziha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2817'>Hasupha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2884'>Tabbaoth</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='44'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7026'>Keros</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5517'>Siaha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6303'>Padon</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='45'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3838'>Lebanah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2286'>Hagabah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6126'>Akkub</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='46'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2285'>Hagab</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8073'>Shalmai</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2605'>Hanan</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='47'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1435'>Giddel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1515'>Gahar</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7211'>Reaiah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='48'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7526'>Rezin</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5353'>Nekoda</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1502'>Gazzam</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='49'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5798'>Uzza</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6454'>Paseah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1153'>Besai</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='50'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='619'>Asnah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4586'>Mehunim</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5304'>Nephusim</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='51'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1227'>Bakbuk</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2709'>Hakupha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2744'>Harhur</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='52'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1213'>Bazluth</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4240'>Mehida</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2797'>Harsha</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='53'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1302'>Barkos</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8547'>Thamah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='54'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5335'>Neziah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2412'>Hatipha</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='55'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5479'>Sotai</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5618'>Sophereth</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6514'>Peruda</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='56'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3279'>Jaalah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1874'>Darkon</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1435'>Giddel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='57'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8203'>Shephatiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2411'>Hattil</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of Pochereth of <strongs hebrew='6380'>Zebaim</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='532'>Ami</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='58'><strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8673'>ninety</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='59'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> they which went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8528'>Tel</strongs>-melah, <strongs hebrew='8521'>Tel</strongs>-harsa, <strongs hebrew='3743'>Cherub</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='135'>Addan</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='564'>Immer</strongs>: but they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>whether</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='60'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1806'>Delaiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2900'>Tobiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5353'>Nekoda</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='61'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2252'>Habaiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6976'>Koz</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1271'>Barzillai</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1271'>Barzillai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1569'>Gileadite</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>after</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='62'><strongs hebrew='428'>These</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3791'>register</strongs><em>among</em> those that were reckoned by <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogy</strongs>, but they were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>: therefore were they, as polluted, <strongs hebrew='1351'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3550'>priesthood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='63'>And the <strongs hebrew='8660'>Tirshatha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they should <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>of the most holy <strongs hebrew='4480 6944 6944'>things</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>there stood <strongs hebrew='5975'>up</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='224'>Urim</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='8550'>Thummim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='64'>The <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>together</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='702 7239'>forty</strongs>and two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='65'><strongs hebrew='4480 905'>Beside</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='519'>maids</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='428'>whom</strongs><em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>: and <em>there</em> <em>were</em> among them two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>singing <strongs hebrew='7891'>men</strongs>and singing <strongs hebrew='7891'>women</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='66'>Their <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs>; their <strongs hebrew='6505'>mules</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='67'>Their <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>; <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='68'>And <em>some</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, offered <strongs hebrew='5068'>freely</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>to set it <strongs hebrew='5975'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4349'>place</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='69'>They <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='3581'>ability</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasure</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337 7239'>threescore</strongs>and one <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1871'>drams</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='4488'>pound</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and one <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='3801'>garments</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='70'>So the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'>And when the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then stood <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3136'>Jozadak</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2216'>Zerubbabel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7597'>Shealtiel</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And they <strongs hebrew='3559'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4350'>bases</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='367'>fear</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them because of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>of those <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>even</em> burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>They <strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5521'>tabernacles</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>, and <em>offered</em> the <strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>daily</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4941'>custom</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='1697'>duty</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>day</strongs>required; </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>afterward</strongs><em>offered</em> the <strongs hebrew='8548'>continual</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, both of the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moons</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the set <strongs hebrew='4150'>feasts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='6942'>consecrated</strongs>, and of every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>that willingly <strongs hebrew='5068'>offered</strongs>a freewill <strongs hebrew='5071'>offering</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>From the first <strongs hebrew='4480 3117 259'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>they to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. But the <strongs hebrew='3245'>foundation</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>yet</em> laid. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>They <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>also unto the <strongs hebrew='2672'>masons</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='2796'>carpenters</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3978'>meat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4960'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, unto them of <strongs hebrew='6722'>Zidon</strongs>, and to them of <strongs hebrew='6876'>Tyre</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='730'>cedar</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3305'>Joppa</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='7558'>grant</strongs>that they had of <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='935'>coming</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs><strongs hebrew='2216'>Zerubbabel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7597'>Shealtiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3136'>Jozadak</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7605'>remnant</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>they that were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7628'>captivity</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5975'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, from twenty years <strongs hebrew='4480 1121 6242 8141'>old</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5329'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>forward</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs><em>with</em> his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6934'>Kadmiel</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='259'>together</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5329'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>forward</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2582'>Henadad</strongs>, <em>with</em> their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And when the <strongs hebrew='1129'>builders</strongs>laid the <strongs hebrew='3245'>foundation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='3847'>apparel</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='4700'>cymbals</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>ordinance</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they sang together by <strongs hebrew='6030'>course</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1984'>praising</strongs>and giving <strongs hebrew='3034'>thanks</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><em>he</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><em>endureth</em> <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8643'>shout</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='1984'>praised</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>the foundation of the house of the LORD was <strongs hebrew='3245 1004 3068'>laid</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>But <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3548'>priests</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <em>who</em> <em>were</em> ancient <strongs hebrew='2205'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, when the foundation of this house was <strongs hebrew='3245 2088 1004'>laid</strongs>before their <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>shouted <strongs hebrew='8643 7311 6963'>aloud</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'>So that the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5234'>discern</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8643'>shout</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1065'>weeping</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='8643'>shout</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>afar <strongs hebrew='5704 4480 7350'>off</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>Now when the <strongs hebrew='6862'>adversaries</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then they <strongs hebrew='5066'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2216'>Zerubbabel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Let us <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, as ye <em>do</em> ; and <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>do <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>unto him since the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='634'>Esar</strongs>-haddon <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assur</strongs>, which brought us <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>hither</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>But <strongs hebrew='2216'>Zerubbabel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7605'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Ye have <strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs>to do with us to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>unto our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='587'>ourselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='3162'>together</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='7503'>weakened</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1089'>troubled</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='1129'>building</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='7936'>hired</strongs><strongs hebrew='3289'>counselors</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them, to <strongs hebrew='6565'>frustrate</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6098'>purpose</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1867'>Darius</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And in the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='8462'>beginning</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs>they <em>unto</em> <em>him</em> an <strongs hebrew='7855'>accusation</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs><strongs hebrew='1312'>Bishlam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4990'>Mithredath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2870'>Tabeel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7605'>rest</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='3674'>companions</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5406'>letter</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the Syrian <strongs hebrew='762'>tongue</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8638'>interpreted</strongs>in the Syrian <strongs hebrew='762'>tongue</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='7348'>Rehum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2942 1169'>chancellor</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8124'>Shimshai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5613'>scribe</strongs><strongs hebrew='3790'>wrote</strongs><strongs hebrew='2298'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='104'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>in this <strongs hebrew='3660'>sort</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><em>wrote</em> <strongs hebrew='7348'>Rehum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2942 1169'>chancellor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8124'>Shimshai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5613'>scribe</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='1784'>Dinaites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='671'>Apharsathchites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2967'>Tarpelites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='670'>Apharsites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='756'>Archevites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='896'>Babylonians</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7801'>Susanchites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1723'>Dehavites</strongs>, <em>and</em> the <strongs hebrew='5962'>Elamites</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='524'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7229'>great</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3358'>noble</strongs><strongs hebrew='620'>Asnappar</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='1541'>over</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3488'>set</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7149'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='8115'>Samaria</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs><em>that</em> <em>are</em> on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, and at such a <strongs hebrew='3706'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='1836'>This</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='6573'>copy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='104'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs>him, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>; Thy <strongs hebrew='5649'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='606'>men</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, and at such a <strongs hebrew='3706'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='1934'>Be</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3046'>known</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5559'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481 3890'>from</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5922'>to</strongs>us are <strongs hebrew='858'>come</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1124'>building</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4779'>rebellious</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='873'>bad</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs>, and have set <strongs hebrew='3635'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7792'>walls</strongs><em>thereof</em> , and <strongs hebrew='2338'>joined</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='787'>foundations</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='1934'>Be</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3046'>known</strongs><strongs hebrew='3705'>now</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2006'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7792'>walls</strongs>set <strongs hebrew='3635'>up</strongs><em>again,</em> <em>then</em> will they <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5415'>pay</strongs><strongs hebrew='4061'>toll</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1093'>tribute</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1983'>custom</strongs>, and <em>so</em> thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5142'>endamage</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='674'>revenue</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='3705'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606 6903 1768'>because</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='4415 4416'>maintenance</strongs>from <em>the</em> <em>king's</em> <strongs hebrew='1965'>palace</strongs>, and it was <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='749'>meet</strongs>for us to <strongs hebrew='2370'>see</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6173'>dishonor</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5922 1836'>therefore</strongs>have we <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3046'>certified</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='1768'>That</strongs>search may be <strongs hebrew='1240'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5609'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1799'>records</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2'>fathers</strongs>: so shalt thou <strongs hebrew='7912'>find</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5609'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1799'>records</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3046'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='4779'>rebellious</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5142'>hurtful</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4083'>provinces</strongs>, and that they have <strongs hebrew='5648'>moved</strongs><strongs hebrew='849'>sedition</strongs>within the <strongs hebrew='1459'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='5957'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='3118'>time</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5922'>for</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='1836'>cause</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='2718'>destroyed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='586'>We</strongs><strongs hebrew='3046'>certify</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2006'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs><em>again</em> , and the <strongs hebrew='7792'>walls</strongs>thereof set <strongs hebrew='3635'>up</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6903'>means</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='383'>have</strongs><strongs hebrew='3809'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2508'>portion</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><em>Then</em> <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='6600'>answer</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7348'>Rehum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1169 2942'>chancellor</strongs>, and <em>to</em> <strongs hebrew='8124'>Shimshai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5613'>scribe</strongs>, and <em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3488'>dwell</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8115'>Samaria</strongs>, and <em>unto</em> the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8001'>Peace</strongs>, and at such a <strongs hebrew='3706'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>The <strongs hebrew='5407'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs>us hath been <strongs hebrew='6568'>plainly</strongs><strongs hebrew='7123'>read</strongs><strongs hebrew='6925'>before</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And I <strongs hebrew='7761 2942'>commanded</strongs>, and search hath been <strongs hebrew='1240'>made</strongs>, and it is <strongs hebrew='7912'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='5957'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='3118'>time</strongs>hath made <strongs hebrew='5376'>insurrection</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>, and <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='4776'>rebellion</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='849'>sedition</strongs>have been <strongs hebrew='5648'>made</strongs>therein. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>There have <strongs hebrew='1934'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='8624'>mighty</strongs><strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='5922'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, which have <strongs hebrew='7990'>ruled</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs><em>countries</em> <strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='4061'>toll</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1093'>tribute</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1983'>custom</strongs>, was <strongs hebrew='3052'>paid</strongs>unto them. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='7761'>Give</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='3705'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='2942'>commandment</strongs>to cause <strongs hebrew='479'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1400'>men</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='989'>cease</strongs>, and that <strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7149'>city</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5705'>until</strongs><em>another</em> <strongs hebrew='2941'>commandment</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='7761'>given</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>from</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Take <strongs hebrew='2095 1934'>heed</strongs>now that ye fail <strongs hebrew='7960'>not</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5648'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*5922 1836'>this</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4101'>why</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='2257'>damage</strongs><strongs hebrew='7680'>grow</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5142'>hurt</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='116'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481 1768'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6573'>copy</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='5407'>letter</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7123'>read</strongs><strongs hebrew='6925'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7348'>Rehum</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8124'>Shimshai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5613'>scribe</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs>, they went <strongs hebrew='236'>up</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='924'>haste</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='1994'>them</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='989'>cease</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='153'>force</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2429'>power</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='989'>ceased</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5673'>work</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='1934'>So</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='989'>ceased</strongs><strongs hebrew='5705'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8648'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8140'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4437'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs><strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6540'>Persia</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'>Then the <strongs hebrew='5029'>prophets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2292'>Haggai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5029'>prophet</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1247'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5714'>Iddo</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5013'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3061'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8036'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6966'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='2217'>Zerubbabel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1247'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7598'>Shealtiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3443'>Jeshua</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1247'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3136'>Jozadak</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8271'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='5974'>with</strongs>them <em>were</em> the <strongs hebrew='5029'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5583'>helping</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>At the same <strongs hebrew='2166'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='858'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>to</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='8674'>Tatnai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6347'>governor</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8370'>Shethar</strongs>-boznai, and their <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='560'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3652'>thus</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='4479'>Who</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7761 2942'>commanded</strongs>you to <strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>, and to make <strongs hebrew='3635'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='846'>wall</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='560'>said</strongs>we unto them after this <strongs hebrew='3660'>manner</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4479'>What</strongs>are the <strongs hebrew='8036'>names</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1400'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1124'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1147'>building</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='5'>But the <strongs hebrew='5870'>eye</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1934'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7868'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs>, that they could <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs>cause <strongs hebrew='1994'>them</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='989'>cease</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5705'>till</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2941'>matter</strongs><strongs hebrew='1946'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='116'>then</strongs>they returned <strongs hebrew='8421'>answer</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='5407'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>concerning</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><em>matter</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='6'>The <strongs hebrew='6573'>copy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='104'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8674'>Tatnai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6347'>governor</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8370'>Shethar</strongs>-boznai, and his <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='671'>Apharsachites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>were</em> on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='7'>They <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6600'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1459'>wherein</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3790'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>thus</strongs>; Unto <strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='8001'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='1934'>Be</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3046'>known</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='236'>went</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4083'>province</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3061'>Judea</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7229'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1932'>which</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1560'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='69'>stones</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='636'>timber</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7761'>laid</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3797'>walls</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5673'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='5648'>goeth</strongs>fast <strongs hebrew='629'>on</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6744'>prospereth</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='3028'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='7593'>asked</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='479'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='7868'>elders</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='560'>said</strongs>unto them <strongs hebrew='3660'>thus</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4479'>Who</strongs><strongs hebrew='7761 2942'>commanded</strongs>you to <strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>, and to make <strongs hebrew='3635'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='846'>walls</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>We <strongs hebrew='7593'>asked</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='8036'>names</strongs><strongs hebrew='638'>also</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3046'>certify</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>we might <strongs hebrew='3790'>write</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8036'>names</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1400'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>were</em> the <strongs hebrew='7217'>chief</strongs>of them. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='3660'>thus</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='8421'>returned</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='6600'>answer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='560'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='586'>We</strongs>are the <strongs hebrew='5649'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='772'>earth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1934'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='7690'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='8140'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481 6928'>ago</strongs>, which a <strongs hebrew='7229'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>and set <strongs hebrew='3635'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='3861'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='2'>fathers</strongs>had provoked the God of heaven unto <strongs hebrew='7265 426 8065'>wrath</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='3052'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='1994'>them</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3028'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5020'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3679'>Chaldean</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='5642'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>, and carried the people <strongs hebrew='1541 5972'>away</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='1297'>But</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2298'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='8140'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs><em>the</em> <em>same</em> <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='3984'>vessels</strongs><strongs hebrew='638'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1722'>gold</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3702'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='5020'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='5312'>took</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1965'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2987'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='1994'>them</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1965'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1994'>those</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5312'>take</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1965'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>, and they were <strongs hebrew='3052'>delivered</strongs>unto <em>one</em> , whose <strongs hebrew='8036'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8340'>Sheshbazzar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>whom</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='6347'>governor</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='560'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='5376'>Take</strongs><strongs hebrew='459'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3984'>vessels</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='236'>go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5182'>carry</strongs><strongs hebrew='1994'>them</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1965'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and let the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='870'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='858'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1791'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='8340'>Sheshbazzar</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3052'>laid</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='787'>foundation</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4481'>since</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='116'>time</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5705'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='3705'>now</strongs>hath it been in <strongs hebrew='1124'>building</strongs>, and <em>yet</em> it is <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8000'>finished</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='3705'>Now</strongs>therefore, <strongs hebrew='2006'>if</strongs><em>it</em> <em>seem</em> <strongs hebrew='2869'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, let there be search <strongs hebrew='1240'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1596'>treasure</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='8536'>there</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2006'>whether</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='383'>be</strongs><em>so</em> , <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and let the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7972'>send</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7470'>pleasure</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>to</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='5922'>concerning</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='1836'>matter</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>, and search was <strongs hebrew='1240'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5609'>rolls</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768 8536'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1596'>treasures</strongs>were laid <strongs hebrew='5182'>up</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And there was <strongs hebrew='7912'>found</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='307'>Achmetha</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='1001'>palace</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4083'>province</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4076'>Medes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2298'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='4040'>roll</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1459'>therein</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='1799'>record</strongs><strongs hebrew='3652'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='3790'>written</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'>In the <strongs hebrew='2298'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='8140'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><em>the</em> <em>same</em> <strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs><em>concerning</em> the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, Let the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='870'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>where</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1684'>offered</strongs><strongs hebrew='1685'>sacrifices</strongs>, and let the <strongs hebrew='787'>foundations</strongs>thereof be strongly <strongs hebrew='5446'>laid</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='7314'>height</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='8361'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='521'>cubits</strongs>, <em>and</em> the <strongs hebrew='6613'>breadth</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='8361'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='521'>cubits</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'><em>With</em> <strongs hebrew='8532'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='5073'>rows</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1560'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='69'>stones</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='5073'>row</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='2323'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='636'>timber</strongs>: and let the <strongs hebrew='5313'>expenses</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3052'>given</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='638'>also</strongs>let the <strongs hebrew='1722'>golden</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3702'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='3984'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='5020'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='5312'>forth</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1965'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2987'>brought</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>, be <strongs hebrew='8421'>restored</strongs>, and brought <strongs hebrew='1946'>again</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1965'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <em>every</em> <em>one</em> to his <strongs hebrew='870'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5182'>place</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='3705'>Now</strongs><em>therefore</em> , <strongs hebrew='8674'>Tatnai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6347'>governor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8370'>Shethar</strongs>-boznai, and your <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='671'>Apharsachites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1934'>be</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='7352'>far</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8536'>thence</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Let the <strongs hebrew='5673'>work</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7662'>alone</strongs>; let the <strongs hebrew='6347'>governor</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='7868'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='1124'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='870'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Moreover I <strongs hebrew='7761'>make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs><strongs hebrew='3964 1768'>what</strongs>ye shall <strongs hebrew='5648'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='5974'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7868'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='479'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1124'>building</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>: that of the king's <strongs hebrew='4481 5232 4430'>goods</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4061'>tribute</strongs><strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='629'>forthwith</strongs><strongs hebrew='5313'>expenses</strongs><strongs hebrew='1934'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='3052'>given</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='479'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1400'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>they be <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='989'>hindered</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='4100'>that</strongs>which they have need <strongs hebrew='2818'>of</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='1123'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='8450'>bullocks</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1798'>rams</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='563'>lambs</strongs>, for the burnt <strongs hebrew='5928'>offerings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2591'>wheat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4416'>salt</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2562'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4887'>oil</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='3983'>appointment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>are</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, let it <strongs hebrew='1934'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='3052'>given</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3118'>day</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3118'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768 3809'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='7960'>fail</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='1768'>That</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1934'>may</strongs><strongs hebrew='7127'>offer</strongs>sacrifices of sweet <strongs hebrew='5208'>savors</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6739'>pray</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='2417'>life</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, and of his <strongs hebrew='1123'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Also I have <strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606 606 1768'>whosoever</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='8133'>alter</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6600'>word</strongs>, let <strongs hebrew='636'>timber</strongs>be pulled <strongs hebrew='5256'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>, and being set <strongs hebrew='2211'>up</strongs>, let him be <strongs hebrew='4223'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>thereon</strongs>; and let his <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5648'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5122'>dunghill</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>hath caused his <strongs hebrew='8036'>name</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7932'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='8536'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='4049'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5972'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='7972'>put</strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='3028'>hand</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8133'>alter</strongs><em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='2255'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='1791'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='576'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7761'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>; let it be <strongs hebrew='5648'>done</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='629'>speed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='116'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='8674'>Tatnai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6347'>governor</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='5675'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8370'>Shethar</strongs>-boznai, and their <strongs hebrew='3675'>companions</strongs>, according <strongs hebrew='6903'>to</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3660'>so</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5648'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='629'>speedily</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='7868'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3062'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='6744'>prospered</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='5017'>prophesying</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2292'>Haggai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5029'>prophet</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1247'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5714'>Iddo</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='1124'>built</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3635'>finished</strongs><em>it</em> , <strongs hebrew='4481'>according</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='2941'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>, and according <strongs hebrew='4481'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2942'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3567'>Cyrus</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs><strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6540'>Persia</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3319'>finished</strongs><strongs hebrew='5705'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8532'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3118'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3393'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='144'>Adar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs>was in the <strongs hebrew='8353'>sixth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8140'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4437'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1868'>Darius</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='1123'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3879'>Levites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1123'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1547'>captivity</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5648'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2597'>dedication</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2305'>joy</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='7127'>offered</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='2597'>dedication</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8450'>bullocks</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1798'>rams</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='703'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='563'>lambs</strongs>; and for a sin <strongs hebrew='2409'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8648 6236'>twelve</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6841 5796'>goats</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4510'>number</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7625'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And they <strongs hebrew='6966'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priests</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='6392'>divisions</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3879'>Levites</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='4255'>courses</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5922'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5673'>service</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>; as it is <strongs hebrew='3792'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5609'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4873'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='2891'>purified</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>together</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of them <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='2889'>pure</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs>, and for their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and for themselves. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, which were come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 1473'>captivity</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>such as had separated <strongs hebrew='914'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them from the <strongs hebrew='4480 2932'>filthiness</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had made them <strongs hebrew='8055'>joyful</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>them, to <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthen</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8304'>Seraiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6659'>Zadok</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='285'>Ahitub</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='568'>Amariah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4812'>Meraioth</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='4'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2228'>Zerahiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5813'>Uzzi</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1231'>Bukki</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='50'>Abishua</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='499'>Eleazar</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='1931'>This</strongs><strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 894'>Babylon</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='4106'>ready</strongs><strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And there went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><em>some</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2549'>fifth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='3246'>began</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='4609'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 894'>Babylon</strongs>, and on the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='2549'>fifth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> , and to <strongs hebrew='3925'>teach</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4941'>judgments</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Now <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='6572'>copy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5406'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, <em>even</em> a <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and of his <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4430'>kings</strongs>, unto <strongs hebrew='5831'>Ezra</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priest</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='5613'>scribe</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1882'>law</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1585'>perfect</strongs><em>peace</em> , and at such a <strongs hebrew='3706'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>I <strongs hebrew='7761'>make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5972'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>, and <em>of</em> his <strongs hebrew='3549'>priests</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3879'>Levites</strongs>, in my <strongs hebrew='4437'>realm</strongs>, which are minded of their own <strongs hebrew='5069'>freewill</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='1946'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1946'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5974'>with</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='3606 6903 1768'>Forasmuch</strongs>as thou art <strongs hebrew='7972'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481 6925'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, and of his <strongs hebrew='7655'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3272'>counselors</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1240'>inquire</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>concerning</strongs><strongs hebrew='3061'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1882'>law</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in thine <strongs hebrew='3028'>hand</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And to <strongs hebrew='2987'>carry</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3702'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1722'>gold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='3272'>counselors</strongs>have freely <strongs hebrew='5069'>offered</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3479'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='4907'>habitation</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3702'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1722'>gold</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>thou canst <strongs hebrew='7912'>find</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4083'>province</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='895'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5974'>with</strongs>the freewill <strongs hebrew='5069'>offering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5974'>people</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priests</strongs>, offering <strongs hebrew='5069'>willingly</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='3606 6903 1836'>That</strongs>thou mayest <strongs hebrew='7066'>buy</strongs><strongs hebrew='629'>speedily</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3702'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='8450'>bullocks</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1798'>rams</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='563'>lambs</strongs>, with their meat <strongs hebrew='4504'>offerings</strongs>and their drink <strongs hebrew='5261'>offerings</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7127'>offer</strongs><strongs hebrew='1994'>them</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4056'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='4101 1768'>whatsoever</strongs>shall seem <strongs hebrew='3191'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>to</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='5922'>to</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='252'>brethren</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5648'>do</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='7606'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3702'>silver</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1722'>gold</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='5648'>do</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='7470'>will</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>The <strongs hebrew='3984'>vessels</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='3052'>given</strongs>thee for the <strongs hebrew='6402'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <em>those</em> <strongs hebrew='8000'>deliver</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='6925'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3390'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And whatsoever <strongs hebrew='7606'>more</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='2819'>needful</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs>thou shalt have <strongs hebrew='5308'>occasion</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5415'>bestow</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5415'>bestow</strongs><em>it</em> out <strongs hebrew='4481'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1596'>treasure</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And I, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='576'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, do <strongs hebrew='7761'>make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2942'>decree</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1490'>treasurers</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606 1768'>whatsoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='5831'>Ezra</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priest</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5613'>scribe</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1882'>law</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>, shall <strongs hebrew='7593'>require</strongs>of you, it be <strongs hebrew='5648'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='629'>speedily</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='5705'>Unto</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3604'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3702'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5705'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3734'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2591'>wheat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5705'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1325'>baths</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2562'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5705'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3969'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1325'>baths</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4887'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4416'>salt</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768 3809'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='3792'>prescribing</strongs><em>how</em> <em>much</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='3606 1768'>Whatsoever</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='2941'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>, let it be <strongs hebrew='149'>diligently</strongs><strongs hebrew='5648'>done</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8065'>heaven</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1768'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4101'>why</strongs>should there <strongs hebrew='1934'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='7109'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='5922'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4437'>realm</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1123'>sons</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='24'>Also we <strongs hebrew='3046'>certify</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs>touching <strongs hebrew='3606'>any</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3549'>priests</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3879'>Levites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2171'>singers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8652'>porters</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5412'>Nethinims</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='6399'>ministers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1836'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1005'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, it shall <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='7990'>lawful</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7412'>impose</strongs><strongs hebrew='4061'>toll</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1093'>tribute</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='1983'>custom</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5922'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='607'>thou</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5831'>Ezra</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='2452'>wisdom</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in thine <strongs hebrew='3028'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4483'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='8200'>magistrates</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1782'>judges</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1768'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1934'>may</strongs><strongs hebrew='1780'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5972'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5675'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5103'>river</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3606'>all</strongs>such as <strongs hebrew='3046'>know</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1882'>laws</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3046'>teach</strongs>ye them <strongs hebrew='1768'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3046'>know</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='3606 1768'>whosoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='1934'>will</strongs><strongs hebrew='3809'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5648'>do</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1882'>law</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='426'>God</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1882'>law</strongs><strongs hebrew='1768'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4430'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1934'>let</strongs><strongs hebrew='1780'>judgment</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5648'>executed</strongs><strongs hebrew='629'>speedily</strongs><strongs hebrew='4481'>upon</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2006'>whether</strongs><em>it</em> <em>be</em> unto <strongs hebrew='4193'>death</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2006'>or</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8332'>banishment</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2006'>or</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6065'>confiscation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5232'>goods</strongs>, or to <strongs hebrew='613'>imprisonment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><em>such</em> <em>a</em> <em>thing</em> as <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6286'>beautify</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And hath <strongs hebrew='5186'>extended</strongs><strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3289'>counselors</strongs>, and before <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1368'>mighty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>me, and I gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>chief <strongs hebrew='7218'>men</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='428'>These</strongs><em>are</em> now the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <em>this</em> <em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogy</strongs>of them that went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me from <strongs hebrew='4480 894'>Babylon</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='783'>Artaxerxes</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1648'>Gershom</strongs>: of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='385'>Ithamar</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1840'>Daniel</strongs>: of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2407'>Hattush</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7935'>Shechaniah</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6551'>Pharosh</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him were reckoned by <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6355'>Pahath</strongs>-moab; <strongs hebrew='454'>Elihoenai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2228'>Zerahiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7935'>Shechaniah</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3166'>Jahaziel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>also of <strongs hebrew='5720'>Adin</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5651'>Ebed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5867'>Elam</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3470'>Jeshaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8203'>Shephatiah</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2069'>Zebadiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4317'>Michael</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3097'>Joab</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5662'>Obadiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8019'>Shelomith</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3131'>Josiphiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='893'>Bebai</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='893'>Bebai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5803'>Azgad</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3110'>Johanan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6997'>Hakkatan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And of the last <strongs hebrew='4480 1121 314'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='140'>Adonikam</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>names</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='467'>Eliphelet</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3273'>Jeiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>also of <strongs hebrew='902'>Bigvai</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5793'>Uthai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2072'>Zabbud</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And I gathered them <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>runneth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='163'>Ahava</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>abode we in <strongs hebrew='2583'>tents</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>: and I <strongs hebrew='995'>viewed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3878'>Levi</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Then <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>I for <strongs hebrew='461'>Eliezer</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='740'>Ariel</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='494'>Elnathan</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='3402'>Jarib</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='494'>Elnathan</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='5416'>Nathan</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='4918'>Meshullam</strongs>, chief <strongs hebrew='7218'>men</strongs>; also for <strongs hebrew='3114'>Joiarib</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='494'>Elnathan</strongs>, men of <strongs hebrew='995'>understanding</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And I sent them with <strongs hebrew='6680 *853'>commandment</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='112'>Iddo</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='3703'>Casiphia</strongs>, and I <strongs hebrew='7760 6310'>told</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='1697'>what</strongs>they should <strongs hebrew='1696'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='112'>Iddo</strongs>, <em>and</em> to his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>, at the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='3703'>Casiphia</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>unto us <strongs hebrew='8334'>ministers</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And by the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7922'>understanding</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4249'>Mahli</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3878'>Levi</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8274'>Sherebiah</strongs>, with his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='2811'>Hashabiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3470'>Jeshaiah</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4847'>Merari</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Also <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7945'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>appointed</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='5411'>Nethinims</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of them were <strongs hebrew='5344'>expressed</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Then I <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6685'>fast</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='163'>Ahava</strongs>, that we might afflict <strongs hebrew='6031'>ourselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>for us, and for our little <strongs hebrew='2945'>ones</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='7399'>substance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>I was <strongs hebrew='954'>ashamed</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7592'>require</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>a band of <strongs hebrew='2428'>soldiers</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>us against the <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemy</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>we had <strongs hebrew='559'>spoken</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>them for <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs>him; but his <strongs hebrew='5797'>power</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>them that <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsake</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>So we <strongs hebrew='6684'>fasted</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1245'>besought</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='4480 430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>: and he was <strongs hebrew='6279'>entreated</strongs>of us. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>Then I <strongs hebrew='914'>separated</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 8269'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8274'>Sherebiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2811'>Hashabiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4480 251'>brethren</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them, </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='8254'>weighed</strongs>unto them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='8641'>offering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, which the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3289'>counselors</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8269'>lords</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><em>there</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>, had <strongs hebrew='7311'>offered</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='26'>I even <strongs hebrew='8254'>weighed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>, <em>and</em> of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Also <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3713'>basins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, of a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='150'>drams</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6668 2896'>fine</strongs><strongs hebrew='5178'>copper</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2530'>precious</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='859'>Ye</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs>also; and the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><em>are</em> a freewill <strongs hebrew='5071'>offering</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs hebrew='8245'>Watch</strongs>ye, and <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><em>them</em> , <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='8254'>weigh</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='3957'>chambers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>So <strongs hebrew='6901'>took</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><em>them</em> to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>Then we <strongs hebrew='5265'>departed</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5104'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='163'>Ahava</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us, and he <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>us from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>, and of such as lay in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And we <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>Now on the <strongs hebrew='7243'>fourth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>was the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs><strongs hebrew='8254'>weighed</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4822'>Meremoth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='223'>Uriah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='499'>Eleazar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3107'>Jozabad</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5129'>Noadiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1131'>Binnui</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='34'>By <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs><em>and</em> by <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'><em>Also</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of those that had been carried <strongs hebrew='1473'>away</strongs>, which were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7628'>captivity</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7126'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullocks</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8673'>ninety</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3532'>lambs</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6842'>goats</strongs><em>for</em> a sin <strongs hebrew='2403'>offering</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>this</em> <em>was</em> a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1881'>commissions</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='323'>lieutenants</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='6346'>governors</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5375'>furthered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'>Now when these <strongs hebrew='428'>things</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3615'>done</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='5066'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>separated <strongs hebrew='914'>themselves</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>, <em>doing</em> according to their <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>, <em>even</em> of the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6522'>Perizzites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4125'>Moabites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4713'>Egyptians</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='5375'>taken</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>for themselves, and for their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>: so that the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>have mingled <strongs hebrew='6148'>themselves</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <em>those</em> <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>: yea, the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5461'>rulers</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='7223'>chief</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4604'>trespass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when I <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='899'>garment</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='4598'>mantle</strongs>, and plucked <strongs hebrew='4803'>off</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4480 8181'>hair</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>and of my <strongs hebrew='2206'>beard</strongs>, and sat <strongs hebrew='3427'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='8074'>astonished</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then were <strongs hebrew='622'>assembled</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='2730'>trembled</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4604'>transgression</strongs>of those that had been carried <strongs hebrew='1473'>away</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='8074'>astonished</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>sacrifice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And at the <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>sacrifice</strongs>I arose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>from my <strongs hebrew='4480 8589'>heaviness</strongs>; and having <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='899'>garment</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='4598'>mantle</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='3766'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs>, and spread <strongs hebrew='6566'>out</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, I am <strongs hebrew='954'>ashamed</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3637'>blush</strongs>to lift <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquities</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='7235'>increased</strongs><strongs hebrew='4605'>over</strongs><em>our</em> <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and our <strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>is grown <strongs hebrew='1431'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Since the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>days</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><em>have</em> <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><em>been</em> in a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>; and for our <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquities</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>, our <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>, <em>and</em> our <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, been <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7628'>captivity</strongs>, and to a <strongs hebrew='961'>spoil</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='1322'>confusion</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='4592'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='7281'>space</strongs><strongs hebrew='8467'>grace</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><em>showed</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7604'>leave</strongs>us a remnant to <strongs hebrew='6413'>escape</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='3489'>nail</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, that our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='215'>lighten</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='4592'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='4241'>reviving</strongs>in our <strongs hebrew='5659'>bondage</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5650'>bondmen</strongs>; yet our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>us in our <strongs hebrew='5659'>bondage</strongs>, but hath <strongs hebrew='5186'>extended</strongs><strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>us in the <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='4241'>reviving</strongs>, to set <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5975'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2723'>desolations</strongs>thereof, and to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='1447'>wall</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, O our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='834'>Which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, unto <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs>it, is an <strongs hebrew='5079'>unclean</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='5079'>filthiness</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>, with their <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs>it from one <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>end</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='6310'>another</strongs>with their <strongs hebrew='2932'>uncleanness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>unto their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>take</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>unto your <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>or their <strongs hebrew='2896'>wealth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>ye may be <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2898'>good</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and leave <em>it</em> for an <strongs hebrew='3423'>inheritance</strongs>to your <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us for our <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='4639'>deeds</strongs>, and for our <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>seeing</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='2820'>punished</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='4295'>less</strongs>than our <strongs hebrew='4480 5771'>iniquities</strongs><em>deserve</em> , and hast <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>us <em>such</em> <strongs hebrew='6413'>deliverance</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Should we <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='6565'>break</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, and join in <strongs hebrew='2859'>affinity</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>? wouldest <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>thou be <strongs hebrew='599'>angry</strongs>with us <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>thou hadst <strongs hebrew='3615'>consumed</strongs><em>us</em> , so that <em>there</em> <em>should</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='7611'>remnant</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='6413'>escaping</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='6662'>righteous</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='7604'>remain</strongs>yet <strongs hebrew='6413'>escaped</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, we <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee in our <strongs hebrew='819'>trespasses</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='369'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'>Now when <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs>, and when he had <strongs hebrew='3034'>confessed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1058'>weeping</strongs>and casting himself <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='6908'>assembled</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3206'>children</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>very <strongs hebrew='7235 1059'>sore</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='7935'>Shechaniah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, <em>one</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5867'>Elam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='587'>We</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='4603'>trespassed</strongs>against our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='3427'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: yet <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='4723'>hope</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>thing. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore let us <strongs hebrew='3772'>make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>with our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>to put <strongs hebrew='3318'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and such as are <strongs hebrew='3205'>born</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them, according to the <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='136'>lord</strongs>, and of those that <strongs hebrew='2730'>tremble</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; and let it be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>this</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs><em>belongeth</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>also <em>will</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee: be of good <strongs hebrew='2388'>courage</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs><strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7650'>swear</strongs>that they should <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3957'>chamber</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3076'>Johanan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='475'>Eliashib</strongs>: and <em>when</em> he <strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>, he did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='56'>mourned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4604'>transgression</strongs>of them that had been carried <strongs hebrew='1473'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And they made <strongs hebrew='5674 6963'>proclamation</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs>, that they should gather themselves <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And that <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whosoever</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>within <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7399'>substance</strongs>should be <strongs hebrew='2763'>forfeited</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='914'>separated</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6951'>congregation</strongs>of those that had been carried <strongs hebrew='1473'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>within <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='1931'>It</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='8671'>ninth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7460'>trembling</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>of <em>this</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>, and for the great <strongs hebrew='4480 1653'>rain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>stood <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='859'>Ye</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='4603'>transgressed</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='3427'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3254 5921'>increase</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='5414'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='8426'>confession</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7522'>pleasure</strongs>: and separate <strongs hebrew='914'>yourselves</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, As thou hast <strongs hebrew='1697 5921'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>must we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='61'>But</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>, and <em>it</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of much <strongs hebrew='1653'>rain</strongs>, and we are <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>without</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><em>is</em> <em>this</em> a <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we are <strongs hebrew='7235'>many</strongs>that have <strongs hebrew='6586'>transgressed</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Let <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>, and let <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3427'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>in our <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='2163'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>times</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>thereof, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2740'>fierce</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='7725'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='389'>Only</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6214'>Asahel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3167'>Jahaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8616'>Tikvah</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5975'>employed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>matter</em> : and <strongs hebrew='4918'>Meshullam</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7678'>Shabbethai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>helped</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='5830'>Ezra</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, <em>with</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of them by <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='8034'>names</strongs>, were <strongs hebrew='914'>separated</strongs>, and sat <strongs hebrew='3427'>down</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6224'>tenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>examine</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And they made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that had <strongs hebrew='3427'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And among the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>there were <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3427'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>: <em>namely</em> , of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3136'>Jozadak</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='461'>Eliezer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3402'>Jarib</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1436'>Gedaliah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>that they would put <strongs hebrew='3318'>away</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>; and <em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='818'>guilty</strongs>, <em>they</em> <em>offered</em> a <strongs hebrew='352'>ram</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6629'>flock</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='564'>Immer</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2607'>Hanani</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2069'>Zebadiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2766'>Harim</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6583'>Pashur</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='454'>Elioenai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3458'>Ishmael</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5417'>Nethaneel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3107'>Jozabad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='501'>Elasah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Also <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3107'>Jozabad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7041'>Kelaiah</strongs>, (the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7042'>Kelita</strongs>,) <strongs hebrew='6611'>Pethahiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='461'>Eliezer</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='4480'>Of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>also; <strongs hebrew='475'>Eliashib</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2928'>Telem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='221'>Uri</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Moreover of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>: of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6551'>Parosh</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7422'>Ramiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3150'>Jeziah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4441'>Malchiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4326'>Miamin</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='499'>Eleazar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4441'>Malchijah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1141'>Benaiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5867'>Elam</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5660'>Abdi</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3406'>Jeremoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='452'>Eliah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2240'>Zattu</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='454'>Elioenai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='475'>Eliashib</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3406'>Jeremoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2066'>Zabad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5819'>Aziza</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>also of <strongs hebrew='893'>Bebai</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3076'>Jehohanan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2608'>Hananiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2079'>Zabbai</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='6270'>Athlai</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1137'>Bani</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4918'>Meshullam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4409'>Malluch</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5718'>Adaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3437'>Jashub</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7594'>Sheal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3406'>Ramoth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6355'>Pahath</strongs>-moab; <strongs hebrew='5733'>Adna</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3636'>Chelal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1141'>Benaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1212'>Bezaleel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1131'>Binnui</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2766'>Harim</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='461'>Eliezer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3449'>Ishijah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4441'>Malchiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8095'>Shimeon</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4409'>Malluch</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='8114'>Shemariah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2828'>Hashum</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4982'>Mattenai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4992'>Mattathah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2066'>Zabad</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='467'>Eliphelet</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3413'>Jeremai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1137'>Bani</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4572'>Maadai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6019'>Amram</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='177'>Uel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='35'><strongs hebrew='1141'>Benaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='912'>Bedeiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3622'>Chelluh</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='36'><strongs hebrew='2057'>Vaniah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4822'>Meremoth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='475'>Eliashib</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='37'><strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4982'>Mattenai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3299'>Jaasau</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And <strongs hebrew='1137'>Bani</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1131'>Binnui</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And <strongs hebrew='8018'>Shelemiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5416'>Nathan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5718'>Adaiah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='40'><strongs hebrew='4367'>Machnadebai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8343'>Shashai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8298'>Sharai</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='41'><strongs hebrew='5832'>Azareel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8018'>Shelemiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8114'>Shemariah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='42'><strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='568'>Amariah</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3130'>Joseph</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'>Of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5015'>Nebo</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3273'>Jeiel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4993'>Mattithiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2066'>Zabad</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2081'>Zebina</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3035'>Jadau</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3100'>Joel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1141'>Benaiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='44'><strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5375'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5237'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>: and <em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3426'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>by whom they <strongs hebrew='7760'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>. </verse>
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