Most Popular Bible Verses in Nehemiah 7
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The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred and eighteen.
I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.
Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,
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:
Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
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;
And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.
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.
The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.
And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.
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.
The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty;
And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.
And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.
As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the family of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,
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.
And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.
The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah,
The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.
The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts;
Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.