Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has LORD, the God of heaven, given me. And he has charged me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, LORD

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has LORD, the God of heaven, given me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of LORD, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem. read more.
And whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem. Then the heads of fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred, rose up to go up to build the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem. And all those who were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered. Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods, even those Cyrus king of Persia brought forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah. And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten silver bowls of a second sort, and a thousand other vessels. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar brought up when those of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem. Now these are the sons of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, every man to who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: The sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy-two. The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. The sons of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five. The sons of Pahath-moab, of the sons of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve. The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four. The sons of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty. The sons of Bani, six hundred forty-two. The sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. The sons of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty-two. The sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six. The sons of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six. The sons of Adin, four hundred fifty-four. The sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. The sons of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three. The sons of Jorah, a hundred and twelve. The sons of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three. The sons of Gibbar, ninety-five. The sons of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three. The men of Netophah, fifty-six. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight. The sons of Azmaveth, forty-two. The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three. The sons of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. The men of Michmas, a hundred twenty-two. The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. The sons of Nebo, fifty-two. The sons of Magbish, a hundred fifty-six. The sons of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four. The sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty. The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. The sons of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. The sons of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty. The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. The sons of Immer, a thousand fifty-two. The sons of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven. The sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen. The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy-four. The singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight. The sons of the porters: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty-nine. The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon, the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim, the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah, the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha. The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda, the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Ami. All the Nethinim and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred ninety-two. And these were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer, but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two. And of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name. These sought their registration [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found. Therefore were they deemed polluted and put away from the priesthood. And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim. The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. And they had two hundred singing men and singing women. Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six, their mules, two hundred forty-five, their camels, four hundred thirty-five, [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.


The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. And they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.