Nehemiah 11 Cross References - BBE

¹ And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns. ² And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem. ³ Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. ⁴ And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez; ⁵ And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. ⁶ All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position. ⁷ And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah. ⁸ And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight. ⁹ And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town. ¹⁰ Of the priests: Jedaiah, the son of Joiarib, Jachin, ¹¹ Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God, ¹² And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, ¹³ And his brothers, heads of families, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, ¹⁴ And their brothers, men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim. ¹⁵ And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni, ¹⁶ And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside business of the house of God; ¹⁷ And Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who had to give the first note of the song of praise in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers, and Abda, the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. ¹⁸ All the Levites in the holy town were two hundred and eighty-four. ¹⁹ In addition the door-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers who kept watch at the doors, were a hundred and seventy-two. ²⁰ And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his heritage. ²¹ But the Nethinim were living in the Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim. ²² And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the music-makers, who was over the business of the house of God. ²³ For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day. ²⁴ And Pethahiah, the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, the son of Judah, was the king's servant in everything to do with the people. ²⁵ And for the daughter-towns with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba and its daughter-towns, and in Dibon and its daughter-towns, and in Jekabzeel and its daughter-towns, ²⁶ And in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet, ²⁷ And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns, ²⁸ And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns, ²⁹ And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth, ³⁰ Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom. ³¹ And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns, ³² At Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, ³³ Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, ³⁴ Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, ³⁵ Lod and Ono, the valley of expert workers. ³⁶ And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

³¹ So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

³³ And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

¹⁹ And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

⁵ Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.

²⁹ But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez. ³⁰ And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

⁷ A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place.

²⁰ And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

⁸ If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God; ⁹ And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

¹³ But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

⁹ So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

³ So Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, and to Piram, king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia, king of Lachish, and to Debir, king of Eglon, saying,

¹¹ The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

¹⁵ The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

¹⁵ In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

⁸ Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite which is Jerusalem: then up to the top of the mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the farthest point of the valley of Rephaim on the north:

²¹ The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur; ²² And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah;

²⁶ Amam, and Shema, and Moladah; ²⁷ And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet; ²⁸ And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;

³¹ And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah; ³² And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places. ³³ In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah; ³⁴ And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam; ³⁵ Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;

³⁵ Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;

³⁹ Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;

¹⁰ And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.

¹³ And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz which is Beth-el, then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower.

¹⁶ And the line goes down to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as far as En-rogel;

²⁴ And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places; ²⁵ Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth

² And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah ³ And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem

⁴¹ And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

¹ Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel; ² And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle. ³ And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord. ⁴ And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ⁵ The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶ The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan. ⁷ The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun. ⁸ All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses. ⁹ From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name: ¹⁰ These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution. ¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands. ¹² But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property. ¹³ And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands; ¹⁴ And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands; ¹⁵ And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands; ¹⁶ And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes. ¹⁷ And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands; ¹⁸ Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.

¹⁸ Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns. ¹⁹ Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests. ²⁰ The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹ And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands; ²² And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns. ²³ And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands; ²⁴ Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns. ²⁵ And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns. ²⁶ All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands. ²⁷ And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns. ²⁸ And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands; ²⁹ Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁰ And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands: ³¹ Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns. ³² And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns. ³³ All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands. ³⁴ And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands; ³⁵ Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁶ And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands; ³⁷ Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁸ And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands; ³⁹ Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns. ⁴⁰ All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns. ⁴¹ All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands. ⁴² Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it. ⁴³ So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place. ⁴⁴ And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands. ⁴⁵ The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.

⁹ Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

²⁵ And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

¹ Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.

⁹ But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord; ¹⁰ And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

¹⁸ Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;

¹⁷ And his base was at Ramah, where his house was; there he was judge of Israel and there he made an altar to the Lord.

¹¹ And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;

¹⁸ And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.

²³ And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash.

¹ Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?

¹⁹ And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

⁶ So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.

³ But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.}

¹³ Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

¹⁰ And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

¹⁴ And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

²¹ The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;

⁷ Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub, ⁸ And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz, ⁹ And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan, ¹⁰ And Johanan was the father of Azariah, he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem: ¹¹ And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub, ¹² And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum, ¹³ And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah, ¹⁴ And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak;

⁵⁴ Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection, ⁵⁵ To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah; ⁵⁶ But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts, ⁵⁸ And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts, ⁵⁹ And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts; ⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns. ⁶¹ And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶² And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns. ⁶³ And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. ⁶⁴ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts. ⁶⁵ And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given. ⁶⁶ And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷ And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts, ⁶⁸ And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts, ⁶⁹ And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts; ⁷⁰ And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. ⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts; ⁷² And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts, ⁷³ And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts; ⁷⁴ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts, ⁷⁵ And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts; ⁷⁶ And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts. ⁷⁷ To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts; ⁷⁸ And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts, ⁷⁹ And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts; ⁸⁰ And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts, ⁸¹ And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

¹² And the sons of Elpaal: Eber and Misham and Shemed he was the builder of Ono and Lod and their daughter-towns;

¹ So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.

¹ So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin. ² Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. ³ And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;

³ And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh; ⁴ Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.

⁴ Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah. ⁵ And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.

⁵ And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.

⁵ And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons. ⁶ And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.

⁶ And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety. ⁷ And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, Judah, the son of Hassenuah,

⁷ And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, Judah, the son of Hassenuah,

⁷ And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, Judah, the son of Hassenuah, ⁸ And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

⁸ And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; ⁹ And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.

⁹ And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers. ¹⁰ And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin

¹⁰ And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin ¹¹ And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

¹¹ And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God; ¹² And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

¹² And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; ¹³ And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God.

¹³ And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God. ¹⁴ And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

¹⁴ And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; ¹⁵ And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

¹⁵ And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

¹⁵ And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; ¹⁶ And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.

¹⁶ And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites. ¹⁷ And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.

¹⁷ And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.

¹⁷ And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief. ¹⁸ Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

¹⁸ Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

¹⁸ Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi. ¹⁹ And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway.

¹⁹ And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway.

¹⁹ And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway.

¹⁹ And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway. ²⁰ In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him!

²⁰ In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him!

²⁰ In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him! ²¹ Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting.

²¹ Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting.

²¹ Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting. ²² There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

²² There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

²² There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions. ²³ So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers.

²³ So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers. ²⁴ There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.

²⁴ There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south. ²⁵ And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.

²⁵ And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time. ²⁶ For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.

²⁶ For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God. ²⁷ Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.

²⁷ Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning. ²⁸ Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.

²⁸ Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again. ²⁹ And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.

²⁹ And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices. ³⁰ And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices.

³⁰ And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices. ³¹ And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes.

³¹ And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes. ³² And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.

³² And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath. ³³ And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.

³³ And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night. ³⁴ These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.

⁴ And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel:

⁴¹ And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever;

¹⁷ And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.

²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,

¹ Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was: ² Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king; ³ Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord. ⁴ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; ⁵ All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.

¹³ And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great.

²⁰ And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.

²⁹ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had to do all the public business of Israel, in relation to judges and men in authority.

¹¹ And now, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all questions to do with the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the head of the family of Judah, in everything to do with the king's business; and the Levites will be overseers for you. Be strong to do the work; and may the Lord be with the upright.

³ He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God.

¹ Now these are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and taken away to Babylon, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his town;

³⁶ The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

⁴³ The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

⁵⁵ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda, ⁵⁶ The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, ⁵⁷ The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami. ⁵⁸ All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.

⁷⁰ So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even all Israel in their towns.

⁸ Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped. ⁹ And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:

¹ Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, ² The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, ³ The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, ⁴ The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, ⁵ The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

²⁰ And whatever more is needed for the house of your God, and which you may have to give, take it from the king's store-house. ²¹ And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care, ²² Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure. ²³ Whatever is ordered by the God of heaven, let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven; so that there may not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons. ²⁴ In addition, we make it clear to you, that it will be against the law to put any tax or payment in goods or forced payment on any of the priests or Levites, the music-makers, door-keepers, Nethinim, or any servants of this house of God.

¹⁶ Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.

¹⁹ And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

³³ And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;

¹³ Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley; they put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and a thousand cubits of wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.

¹⁵ And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

¹⁷ Then came the Levites, Rehum, the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division.

²⁶ Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.

³¹ After him Malchijah, one of the gold-workers to the Nethinim and the traders, made good the wall opposite the doorway of Hammiphkad and as far as the way up to the angle.

⁴ Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up. ⁵ And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words: ⁶ These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;

²⁷ The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.

³⁰ The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one. ³¹ The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two. ³² The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

³⁷ The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.

³⁹ The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the family of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁵ The door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.

⁵⁷ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, ⁵⁸ The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, ⁵⁹ The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon. ⁶⁰ All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

⁷³ So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.

⁷ And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.

⁴ Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God. ⁵ Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.

¹¹ Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, ¹² Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, ¹³ Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.

²¹ Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

³⁴ And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;

¹ And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

³ Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

⁹ And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town.

¹¹ Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,

¹⁴ And their brothers, men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

¹⁶ And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside business of the house of God; ¹⁷ And Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who had to give the first note of the song of praise in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers, and Abda, the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. ¹⁸ All the Levites in the holy town were two hundred and eighty-four.

²⁰ And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his heritage.

⁶ Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

⁸ And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers. ⁹ And Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were opposite them in their watches.

¹⁹ And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

²⁴ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch. ²⁵ Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

²⁵ Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

³¹ Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;

³⁵ And certain of the priests' sons with wind instruments; Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,

⁴² And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer. And the makers of melody made their voices loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

⁴⁶ For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God. ⁴⁷ And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.

¹³ And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.

¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

²⁰ If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

¹⁰ For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

⁵ For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David.

³³ A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.

²⁸ He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.

³⁰ Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.

³² This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

⁸ So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.

² For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.

¹ Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

¹ The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

³¹ And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind. ³² For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death: for they will put the dead into the earth in Topheth till there is no more room.

² And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;

⁶ For this cause, see, a time is coming, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death.

³⁵ And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

¹⁵ Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.

³ And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;

¹⁸ In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

⁵ Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

¹⁵ When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet let this be clear to the reader,

⁵³ And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

³³ The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

²⁴ And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you,

²⁴ Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.

² And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food. ³ Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

²⁸ Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

¹⁶ But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus. ¹⁷ For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.

⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers. ¹⁸ In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

² But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

² And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.