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The names of them which

Before CHRIST 457.

m Josh. 7. 19. Prov. 28.

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n ver. 3.

NEHEMIAH, I.

11 Now therefore make confession | unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and "separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of 10r, we have one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

greatly offended in this thing.

02 Chron. 1 Or, till this

30.8.

matter be dispatched.

↑ Heb. stood.

456.

p 1 Kings 10. 151 Chron. 22.24

2 Chron. 30.

14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the a Lev. 6.46 flock for their trespass.

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20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioe

had married strange wives

nai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.

30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. 33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh, 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau, 38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, 39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

Before CHRIST 456.

1 Or, Mabnadebai, ac

40 || Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, 41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shema- cording to riah,

42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. 43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.

44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH.

CHAP. I. 1 Nehemiah, understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem, mourneth, fasteth, and prayeth. 5 His prayer.

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HE words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

2 That Hanani, one of my brethren,

came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

some copies.

Before CHRIST cir. 446.

3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is io.

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b ch. 2. 17. c2 Kings 25

Nehemiah's prayer.

NEHEMIAH.

Nehemiah's request, and commission. Before broken down, and the gates thereof are | king live for ever: why should not my Refor CHRIST cir. 466. burned with fire. countenance be sad, when the city, the cir. 445place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth e ch. 1.3. waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, 5¶ And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible Exod. 20. God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his

d Dan. 9. 4.

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f1 Kings 8. 2 Chron. 6.

28, 29.

40. Dan. 9. 17, 18.

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6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and Dan. 9. 20. confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. 7h We have dealt very corruptly against i Dei. 28. thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

h Ps. 106, 6. Dan. 9. 5.

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4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how † Heb. wife. long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him 'a time.

7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

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8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, 8 ch. 3.7and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good harass hand of my God upon me.

9¶ Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

& 7. 6, 9, 25. ver. 18.

415.

11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was i Erra & 32 there three days.

12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

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13 And I went out by night by the Chron gate of the valley, even before the dra- 13gon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were 1 broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

14 Then I went on to the "gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

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15 Then went I up in the night by the "brook, and viewed the wall, and turned a back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests,

The names and order of them

Before CHRIST 445

o ch. 1. 2. Ps. 44.13-& 79-4 Jer. 24.9. Ezek. 5 14, 15 & 22.4

p ver. 8.

CHAP. III.
nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor
to the rest that did the work.

17 Then said I unto them, Ye see
the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem
lieth waste, and the gates thereof are
burned with fire: come, and let us build
up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no
more a reproach.

18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up 42 Sam. 2.7 and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

r Ps. 80.6.

19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they 44-13 laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? 'will ye rebel against the king?

s ch. 6. 6.

20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will Ezra 4-3 arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. CHAP. III.

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1. 10.

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5 But the fish gate did the sons of 12. 39. Zeph. Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams g See ch. 6. thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.

5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their b Jade-5-33 necks to the work of their Lord.

i ch. 12. 3.

A ch. 2. &.

6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son broad wall. of one of the apothecaries, and they || for1232tified Jerusalem unto the 1broad wall.

1 Or, left Jerusalem unto the

that builded the wall.

CHRIST

9 And next unto them repaired Re- Before phaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.

445.

10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah. 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, "and the tower of the Heb.second furnaces.

12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.

13 "The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.

14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

measure.

m ch. 12. 38.

n ch. 2. 13.

o ch. 2. 13.

15 But the gate of the fountain re- p ch. 2. 14. paired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by John 9. 7. the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool 2 Kings 20. that was made, and unto the house of 11. the mighty.

17 And after him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.

18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.

19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the 'turning of the wall.

20 After him Baruch the son of || Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.

25 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After

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26 Moreover the Nethinims || dwelt Ophel, unto the place over against *the water gate toward the east, and the paired unto. tower that lieth out.

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y 2 Chron.

27.3.

Or, the tower.

27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great 2 ch. 8.1,3. tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.

& 12-37.

a 2 Kings 11. 16. 2 Chron. 23.15 Jer. 31.40.

28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.

29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate. 30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the Or, corner going up of the corner.

chamber.

a ch. 2. 10,

19.

to themselves?

32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

CHAP. IV.

1 While the enemies scoff, Nehemiah prayeth and continueth the work. 7 Understanding the wrath and secrets of the enemy, he setteth a watch. 13 He armeth the labourers, 19 and giveth military precepts.

Nehemiah appointeth a watch.

Before CHRIST 445

5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to Pk. 69. 17, anger before the builders.

28. & 109. 14, 15. Jer. 18.

6 So built we the wall; and all the wall 23. was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

cended.

7 But it came to pass, that when fver. 1. Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem + were + Heb. a made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together & P. 83-3, to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

5+ Heb. to make an error to it.

9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against Ps. 50. 15. them day and night, because of them.

10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, || From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

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ballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What + Heb. leave do these feeble Jews? will they + fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

b ch. 2. 10, 19.

c Ps. 193. 3,

4.

+ Heb. despite.

3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

4 Hear, O our God; for we are † despised: 1: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey Prov. 3-34 in the land of captivity:

d Ps. 79. 12.

to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

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Nehemiah reformeth usury.

CHRIST 445.

CHAP. V. VI.

His hospitality.

Before the rulers, and to the rest of the people, | our God because of the reproach of the The work is great and large, and we are heathen our enemies? separated upon the wall, one far from another.

u Exod. 14.

14, 25. Deut. 1.30. & 3 22. & 20.4

Josh. 23.10

20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: "our God shall fight for us.

21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our 1 Or, every clothes, || saving that every one put them off for washing.

one went with his weapon for water. See Judg. 5. 11.

a Isai. 5-7.

b Lev. 25 35.36, 37. Deut. 157.

€ Isai. 58.7.

7. Lev. 25

CHAP. V.

1 The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage. 6 Nehemiah rebuketh the usurers, and causeth them to make a covenant of restitution. 14 He forbeareth his own allowance, and keepeth hospitality.

AND there was a great I cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their childExod. 21. ren: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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6¶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to

answer.

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9 Also I said, It is not good that Lev. 25. 36. do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of

Before CHRIST 445

1 Pet. 2.

10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my h 2 Sam. 12. servants, might exact of them money and 24. Rom. 3. corn: I pray you, let us leave off this 12. usury.

11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then Í called the priests, and took an oath of Ezra 10. 5. them, that they should do according to this promise.

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