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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 16: 2 Esdras
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 16***
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAS, WHICH IS CALLED THE SECOND OF ESDRAS
+
+This Book takes its name from the writer, who was cupbearer to
+Artaxerxes (surnamed Longimanus) king of Persia, and was sent by him
+with a commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. It is also called
+the second book of Esdras; because it is a continuation of the history,
+begun by Esdras, of the state of the people of God after their return
+from captivity.
+
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 1
+
+Nehemias hearing the miserable state of his countrymen in Judea,
+lamenteth, fasteth, and prayeth to God for their relief.
+
+1:1. The words of Nehemias the son of Helchias. And it came to pass in
+the month of Casleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in the castle of
+Susa,
+
+1:2. That Hanani one of my brethren came, he and some men of Juda; and I
+asked them concerning the Jews, that remained and were left of the
+captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
+
+1:3. And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the
+captivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach:
+and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are
+burnt with fire.
+
+1:4. And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and mourned
+for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of
+heaven.
+
+1:5. And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, strong, great,
+and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy with those that love thee,
+and keep thy commandments:
+
+1:6. Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of
+thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the
+children of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children
+of Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father's
+house have sinned.
+
+1:7. We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy commandments,
+and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded thy servant
+Moses.
+
+1:8. Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant,
+saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the
+nations:
+
+1:9. But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do them,
+though you should be led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I
+will gather you from thence, and bring you back to the place which I
+have chosen for my name to dwell there.
+
+1:10. And these are thy servants, and thy people: whom thou hast
+redeemed by thy great strength, and by thy mighty hand.
+
+1:11. I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of
+thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy
+name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this
+man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 2
+
+Nehemias with commission from king Artaxerxes cometh to Jerusalem: and
+exhorteth the Jews to rebuild the walls.
+
+2:1. And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of
+Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine,
+and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his
+face.
+
+2:2. And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou
+dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I
+know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great
+fear:
+
+2:3. And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my
+countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres
+of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?
+
+2:4. Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request?  And I
+prayed to the God of heaven,
+
+2:5. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy
+servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into
+Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.
+
+2:6. And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how
+long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the
+king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.
+
+2:7. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give
+me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they
+convey me over, till I come into Judea:
+
+2:8. And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, to give me
+timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the
+walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king
+gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.
+
+2:9. And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and
+gave them the king's letters. And the king had sent with me captains of
+soldiers, and horsemen.
+
+2:10. And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite,
+heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who
+sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.
+
+2:11. And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
+
+2:12. And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told
+not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there
+was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
+
+2:13. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the
+dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of
+Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were
+consumed with fire.
+
+2:14. And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's
+aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.
+
+2:15. And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall,
+and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.
+
+2:16. But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did:
+neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or
+to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.
+
+2:17. Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are,
+because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with
+fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no
+longer a reproach.
+
+2:18. And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the
+king's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and
+build. And their hands were strengthened in good.
+
+2:19. But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite,
+and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised
+us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel
+against the king?
+
+2:20. And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he
+helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you
+have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 3
+
+They begin to build the walls: the names and order of the builders.
+
+3:1. Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests,
+and they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors
+thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto
+the tower of Hananeel.
+
+3:2. And next to him the men of Jericho built: and next to them built
+Zachur the son of Amri.
+
+3:3. But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and set
+up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars.  And next to them
+built Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.
+
+4. And next to him built Mosollam the son of Barachias, the son of
+Merezebel, and next to them built Sadoc the son of Baana.
+
+5. And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put
+their necks to the work of their Lord.
+
+3:6. And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosollam the son of Besodia built
+the old gate: they covered it and set up the doors thereof, and the
+locks, and the bars.
+
+3:7. And next to them built Meltias the Gabaonite, and Jadon the
+Meronathite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that was in
+the country beyond the river.
+
+3:8. And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia the goldsmith: and
+next to him built Ananias the son of the perfumer: and they left
+Jerusalem unto the wall of the broad street.
+
+3:9. And next to him built Raphaia the son of Hur, lord of the street of
+Jerusalem.
+
+3:10. And next to him Jedaia the son of Haromaph over against his own
+house: and next to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.
+
+3:11. Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the son of Phahath Moab,
+built half the street, and the tower of the furnaces.
+
+3:12. And next to him built Sellum the son of Alohes, lord of half the
+street of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
+
+3:13. And the gate of the valley Hanun built, and the inhabitants of
+Zanoe: they built it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and
+the bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the gate of the
+dunghill.
+
+3:14. And the gate of the dunghill Melchias the son of Rechab built,
+lord of the street of Bethacharam: he built it, and set up the doors
+thereof, and the locks, and the bars.
+
+3:15. And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built,
+lord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up
+the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the
+pool of Siloe unto the king's guard, and unto the steps that go down
+from the city of David.
+
+3:16. After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the street
+of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the
+pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty.
+
+3:17. After him built the Levites, Rehum the son of Benni. After him
+built Hasebias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his own street.
+
+3:18. After him built their brethren Bavai the son of Enadad, lord of
+half Ceila.
+
+3:19. And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord of Maspha, built
+another measure, over against the going up of the strong corner.
+
+3:20. After him in the mount Baruch the son of Zachai built another
+measure, from the corner to the door of the house of Eliasib the high
+priest.
+
+3:21. After him Merimuth the son of Urias the son of Haccus, built
+another measure, from the door of the house of Eliasib, to the end of
+the house of Eliasib.
+
+3:22. And after him built the priests, the men of the plains of the
+Jordan.
+
+3:23. After him built Benjamin and Hasub, over against their own house:
+and after him built Azarias the son of Maasias the son of Ananias over
+against his house.
+
+3:24. After him built Bennui the son of Hanadad another measure, from
+the house of Azarias unto the bending, and unto the corner.
+
+3:25. Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the bending and the tower,
+which lieth out from the king's high house, that is, in the court of the
+prison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos.
+
+3:26. And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the
+water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.
+
+3:27. After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from
+the great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.
+
+3:28. And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over
+against his house.
+
+3:29. After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house.
+And after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east
+gate.
+
+3:30. After him built Hanania the son of Selemia, and Hanun the sixth
+son of Seleph, another measure: after him built Mosollam the son of
+Barachias over against his treasury. After him Melcias the goldsmith's
+son built unto the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of small
+wares, over against the judgment gate, and unto the chamber of the
+corner.
+
+3:31. And within the chamber of the corner of the flock gate, the
+goldsmiths and the merchants built.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 4
+
+The building is carried on notwithstanding the opposition of their
+enemies.
+
+4:1. And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were
+building the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed
+at the Jews.
+
+4:2. And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans:
+What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will
+they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones
+out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?
+
+4:3. Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a
+fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.
+
+4:4. Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon
+their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.
+
+4:5. Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from
+before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.
+
+4:6. So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half
+thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.
+
+4:7. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians,
+and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem
+were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were
+exceedingly angry.
+
+4:8. And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight
+against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.
+
+4:9. And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and
+night against them.
+
+4:10. And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed,
+and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the
+wall.
+
+4:11. And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we
+come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.
+
+4:12. And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came
+and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to
+us,
+
+4:13. I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in
+order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.
+
+4:14. And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the
+magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of
+them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your
+brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your
+houses.
+
+4:15. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had
+been told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of us
+to the walls, every man to his work.
+
+4:16. And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their
+young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears,
+and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind
+them in all the house of Juda.
+
+4:17. Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that
+laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held
+a sword.
+
+4:18. For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his
+reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.
+
+4:19. And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest
+of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated
+on the wall one far from another:
+
+4:20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run
+all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.
+
+4:21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears
+from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.
+
+4:22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his
+servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the
+night, and by day, to work.
+
+4:23. Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that
+followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped
+himself when he was to be washed.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 5
+
+Nehemias blameth the rich, for their oppressing the poor. His
+exhortation, and bounty to his countrymen.
+
+5:1. Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against
+their brethren the Jews.
+
+5:2. And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very
+many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and
+live.
+
+5:3. And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our
+vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
+
+5:4. And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and
+let us give up our fields and vineyards:
+
+5:5. And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children
+as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our
+daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have
+we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men
+possess.
+
+5:6. And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to
+these words.
+
+5:7. And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and
+magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your
+brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
+
+5:8. And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our
+ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will
+you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their
+peace, and found not what to answer.
+
+5:9. And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not
+in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the
+Gentiles our enemies?
+
+5:10. Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn
+to many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the
+debt that is owing to us.
+
+5:11. Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and
+their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money,
+and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to exact of
+them, give it rather for them.
+
+5:12. And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of
+them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took
+an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.
+
+5:13. Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that
+shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his
+labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty.  And all the
+multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according
+to what was said.
+
+5:14. And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in
+the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth
+year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not
+eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.
+
+5:15. But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable
+to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every
+day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I
+did not so for the fear of God.
+
+5:16. Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land,
+and all my servants were gathered together to the work.
+
+5:17. The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and
+fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the
+nations that were round about us.
+
+5:18. And there was prepared for me day be day one ox, and six choice
+rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines,
+and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as
+governor: for the people were very much impoverished.
+
+5:19. Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done
+for this people.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 6
+
+The enemies seek to terrify Nehemias. He proceedeth and finisheth the
+wall.
+
+6:1. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the
+Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall,
+and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not
+set up the doors in the gates,)
+
+6:2. Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a
+league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono.  But they thought
+to do me mischief.
+
+6:3. And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and
+I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to
+you.
+
+6:4. And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I
+answered them after the same manner.
+
+6:5. And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to
+the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:
+
+6:6. It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that
+thou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall,
+and hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end
+
+6:7. Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem,
+saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things:
+therefore come now, that we may take counsel together.
+
+6:8. And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou
+sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.
+
+6:9. For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands
+would cease from the work, and that we would leave off.  Wherefore I
+strengthened my hands the more:
+
+6:10. And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of
+Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of
+God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple,
+for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay
+thee.
+
+6:11. And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that
+being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life?  I will not
+go in.
+
+6:12. And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken
+to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had
+hired him.
+
+6:13. For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing,
+and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.
+
+6:14. Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their
+works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the
+prophets that would have put me in fear.
+
+6:15. But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month
+of Elul, in two and fifty days.
+
+6:16. And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all
+nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down
+within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of
+God.
+
+6:17. Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men
+of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.
+
+6:18. For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son
+in law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to
+wife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.
+
+6:19. And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to
+him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 7
+
+Nehemias appointeth watchmen in Jerusalem. The list of those who came
+first from Babylon.
+
+7:1. Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and
+numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:
+
+7:2. I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of
+Jerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God
+above the rest,)
+
+7:3. And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till
+the sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were shut,
+and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every
+one by their courses, and every man over against his house.
+
+7:4. And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the
+midst thereof, and the houses were not built.
+
+7:5. But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and
+magistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of
+the number of them who came up at first and therein it was found
+written:
+
+7:6. These are the children of the province, who came up from the
+captivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the
+king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every one
+into his own city.
+
+7:7. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemias, Azarias, Raamias,
+Nahamani, Mardochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia, Nahum, Baana.  The
+number of the men of the people of Israel:
+
+7:8. The children of Pharos, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
+
+7:9. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.
+
+7:10. The children of Area, six hundred fifty-two.
+
+7:11. The children of Phahath Moab of the children of Josue and Joab,
+two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
+
+7:12. The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
+
+7:13. The children of Zethua, eight hundred forty-five.
+
+7:14. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.
+
+7:15. The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-eight.
+
+7:16. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
+
+7:17. The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
+
+7:18. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-seven.
+
+7:19. The children of Beguai, two thousand sixty-seven.
+
+7:20. The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
+
+7:21. The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.
+
+7:22. The children of Hasem, three hundred twenty-eight.
+
+7:23. The children of Besai, three hundred twenty-four.
+
+7:24. The children of Hareph, a hundred and twelve.
+
+7:25. The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.
+
+7:26. The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.
+
+7:27. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.
+
+7:28. The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.
+
+7:29. The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred forty-
+three.
+
+7:30. The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
+
+7:31. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.
+
+7:32. The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.
+
+7:33. The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
+
+7:34. The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
+
+7:35. The children of Harem, three hundred and twenty.
+
+7:36. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
+
+7:37. The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
+
+7:38. The children of Senaa,  three thousand nine hundred thirty.
+
+7:39. The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine
+hundred and seventy-three.
+
+7:40. The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.
+
+7:41. The children of Phashur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
+
+7:42. The children of Arem, one thousand and seventeen. The Levites:
+
+7:43. The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons
+
+7:44. Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:
+
+7:45. The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-eight.
+
+7:46. The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the
+children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the
+children of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.
+
+7:47. The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the children of Hasupha, the
+children of Tebbaoth,
+
+7:48. The children of Ceros, the children os Siaa, the children of
+Phadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of
+Selmai,
+
+7:49. The children of Hanan, the children of Geddel, the children of
+Gaher,
+
+7:50. The children of Raaia, the children of Rasin, the children of
+Necoda,
+
+7:51. The children of Gezem, the children of Asa, the children of
+Phasea,
+
+7:52. The children of Besai, the children of Munim, the children of
+Nephussim,
+
+7:53. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of
+Harhur,
+
+7:54. The children of Besloth, the children of Mahida, the children of
+Harsa,
+
+7:55. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of
+Thema,
+
+7:56. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,
+
+7:57. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai,
+the children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,
+
+7:58. The children of Jahala, the children of Darcon, the children of
+Jeddel,
+
+7:59. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of
+Phochereth, who was born of Sabaim, the son of Amon.
+
+7:60. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,
+three hundred ninety-two.
+
+7:61. And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,
+Addon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor
+their seed, whether they were of Israel.
+
+7:62. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of
+Necoda, six hundred forty-two.
+
+7:63. And of the priests, the children of Habia, the children of Accos,
+the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of Berzellai
+the Galaadite, and he was called by their name.
+
+7:64. These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and
+they were cast out of the priesthood.
+
+7:65. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the
+holies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.
+
+7:66. All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three
+hundred sixty,
+
+7:67. Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven
+thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and
+singing women, two hundred forty-five.
+
+7:68. Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six: their mules two hundred
+forty-five.
+
+7:69. Their camels, four hundred thirty-five, their asses, six thousand
+seven hundred and twenty.
+
+(Hitherto is related what was written in the record. From this place
+forward goeth on the history of Nehemias.)
+
+7:70. And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work.
+Athersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls,
+and five hundred and thirty garments for priests.
+
+Athersatha... That is, Nehemias; as appears from chap. 12. Either that
+he was so called at the court of the king of Persia, where he was
+cupbearer: or that, as some think, this name signifies governor; and he
+was at that time governor of Judea.
+
+7:71. And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the
+work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds
+of silver.
+
+7:72. And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand
+drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven
+garments for priests.
+
+7:73. And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singing
+men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and all
+Israel dwelt in their cities.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 8
+
+Esdras readeth the law before the people. Nehemias comforteth them. They
+celebrate the feast of tabernacles.
+
+8:1. And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in
+their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to
+the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the
+scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had
+commanded to Israel.
+
+8:2. Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men
+and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the
+seventh month.
+
+8:3. And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water
+gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and
+all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were
+attentive to the book.
+
+8:4. And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made
+to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania,
+and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left,
+Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and
+Mosollam.
+
+8:5. And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above
+all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.
+
+8:6. And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people
+answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and
+adored God with their faces to the ground.
+
+8:7. Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia,
+Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made
+silence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their
+place.
+
+8:8. And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly
+to be understood: and they understood when it was read.
+
+8:9. And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe,
+and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy
+day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people
+wept, when they heard the words of the law.
+
+8:10. And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and
+send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it
+is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is
+our strength.
+
+8:11. And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace,
+for the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.
+
+8:12. So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and
+to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had
+taught them.
+
+8:13. And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the
+people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras
+the scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.
+
+8:14. And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by
+the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in
+tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:
+
+8:15. And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their
+cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch
+branches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle,
+and branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles,
+as it is written.
+
+8:16. And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves
+tabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and
+in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate,
+and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
+
+8:17. And all the assembly of them that were returned from the
+captivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the
+days of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so,
+until that day: and there was exceeding great joy.
+
+8:18. And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the
+first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in
+the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 9
+
+The people repent with fasting and sackcloth. The Levites confess God's
+benefits, and the people's ingratitude: they pray for them, and make a
+covenant with God.
+
+9:1. And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of
+Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon
+them.
+
+9:2. And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from
+every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the
+iniquities of their fathers.
+
+9:3. And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of
+the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they
+confessed, and adored the Lord their God.
+
+9:4. And there stood up upon the step of the Levites, Josue, and Bani,
+and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they
+cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
+
+9:5. And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia,
+Oduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from
+eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all
+blessing and praise.
+
+9:6. Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven
+of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are
+in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all
+these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.
+
+9:7. Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth
+out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.
+
+The fire of the Chaldeans... The city of Ur in Chaldea, the name of
+which signifies fire. Or out of the fire of the tribulations and
+temptations, to which he was there exposed.-The ancient Rabbins
+understood this literally, affirming that Abram was cast into the fire
+by the idolaters, and brought out by a miracle without any hurt.
+
+9:8. And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest
+a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the
+Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the
+Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast
+fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.
+
+9:9. And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou
+didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.
+
+9:10. And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his
+servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they
+dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at
+this day.
+
+9:11. And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through
+the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest
+into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.
+
+9:12. And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a
+pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.
+
+9:13. Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them
+from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth,
+ceremonies, and good precepts.
+
+9:14. Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to
+them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy
+servant.
+
+9:15. And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and
+broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and
+thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon
+which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.
+
+9:16. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks
+and hearkened not to thy commandments.
+
+9:17. And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which
+thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the
+head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a
+forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of
+compassion, didst not forsake them.
+
+And gave the head... That is, they set their head, or were bent to
+return to Egypt.
+
+9:18. Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had
+said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed
+great blasphemies:
+
+9:19. Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert:
+the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in
+the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which
+they should go.
+
+9:20. And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna
+thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for
+their thirst.
+
+9:21. Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was
+wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were
+not worn.
+
+9:22. And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots
+for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king
+of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.
+
+9:23. And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and
+broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their
+fathers, that they should go in and possess it.
+
+9:24. And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst
+humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and
+gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the
+land, that they might do with them as it pleased them.
+
+9:25. And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses
+full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards,
+and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became
+fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.
+
+9:26. But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw
+thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished
+them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great
+blasphemies.
+
+9:27. And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they
+afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee,
+and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy
+tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of
+their enemies.
+
+9:28. But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight:
+and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had
+dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou
+heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.
+
+9:29. And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt
+proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy
+judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew
+the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
+
+9:30. And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify
+against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard
+not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the
+lands.
+
+9:31. Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them,
+nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.
+
+9:32. Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest
+covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which
+hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and
+our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the
+king of Assur, until this day.
+
+9:33. And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because
+thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.
+
+9:34. Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept
+thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which
+thou hast testified among them.
+
+9:35. And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy
+manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
+land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their
+most wicked devices.
+
+9:36. Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou
+gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things
+thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.
+
+9:37. And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set
+over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over
+our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.
+
+9:38. And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write
+it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 10
+
+The names of the subscribers to the covenant, and the contents of it.
+
+10:1. And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of Hachelai,
+and Sedecias,
+
+10:2. Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,
+
+10:3. Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,
+
+10:4. Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,
+
+10:5. Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,
+
+10:6. Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,
+
+10:7. Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,
+
+10:8. Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.
+
+10:9. And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of
+Henadad, Cedmihel,
+
+10:10. And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,
+
+10:11. Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,
+
+10:12. Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,
+
+10:13. Odaia, Bani, Baninu.
+
+10:14. The heads of the people, Pharos, Phahath Moab, Elam, Zethu, Bani,
+
+10:15. Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,
+
+10:16. Adonia, Begoai, Adin,
+
+10:17. Ater, Hezecia, Azur,
+
+10:18. Odaia, Hasum, Besai,
+
+10:19. Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,
+
+10:20. Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,
+
+10:21. Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,
+
+10:22. Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,
+
+10:23. Osee, Hanania, Hasub,
+
+10:24. Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,
+
+10:25. Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,
+
+10:26. Echaia, Hanan, Anan,
+
+10:27. Melluch, Haran, Baana:
+
+10:28. And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and
+singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the
+people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and
+their daughters.
+
+10:29. All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with
+their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would
+walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant
+of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our
+God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.
+
+10:30. And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the
+land, nor take their daughters for our sons.
+
+10:31. And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any
+things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy
+them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the
+seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.
+
+10:32. And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a
+sicle every year for the work of the house of our God,
+
+10:33. For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice,
+and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the
+set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that
+atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of
+our God.
+
+10:34. And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the
+people for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the house
+of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year to year:
+to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law
+of Moses:
+
+10:35. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the
+firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house
+of our Lord.
+
+10:36. And the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is
+written in the law, and the firstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep, to
+be offered in the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the
+house of our God.
+
+10:37. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our
+libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil
+to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our
+ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our
+works out of all the cities.
+
+10:38. And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the
+tithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their
+tithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure
+house.
+
+10:39. For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry
+to the treasury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and of oil: and the
+sanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing men,
+and the porters, and ministers, and we will not forsake the house of our
+God.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 11
+
+Who were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the other cities.
+
+11:1. And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of
+the people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the
+holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
+
+11:2. And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered
+themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
+
+11:3. These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in
+Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his
+possession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the
+Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.
+
+11:4. And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of the children of Juda, and
+some of the children of Benjamin: of the children of Juda, Athaias the
+son of Aziam, the son of Zacharias, the son of Amarias, the son of
+Saphatias, the son of Malaleel: of the sons of Phares,
+
+11:5. Maasia the son of Baruch, the son of Cholhoza, the son of Hazia,
+the son of Adaia, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zacharias, the son of
+the Silonite:
+
+11:6. All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four
+hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
+
+11:7. And these are the children of Benjamin: Sellum the son of
+Mosollam, the son of Joed, the son of Phadaia, the son of Colaia, the
+son of Masia, the son of Etheel, the son of Isaia.
+
+11:8. And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
+
+11:9. And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler, and Judas the son of Senua
+was second over the city.
+
+11:10. And of the priests Idaia the son of Joarib, Jachin,
+
+11:11. Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc,
+the son of Meraioth, the son of Achitob the prince of the house of God,
+
+11:12. And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eight hundred
+twenty-two. And Adaia the son of Jeroham, the son of Phelelia, the son
+of Amsi, the son of Zacharias, the son of Pheshur, the son of Melchias,
+
+11:13. And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers: two hundred forty-
+two. And Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of
+Mosollamoth, the son of Emmer,
+
+11:14. And their brethren who were very mighty, a hundred twenty-eight:
+and their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty.
+
+11:15. And of the Levites Semeia the son of Hasub, the son of Azaricam,
+the son of Hasabia, the son of Boni,
+
+11:16. And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business
+of the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,
+
+11:17. And Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zebedei, the son of
+Asaph, was the principal man to praise, and to give glory in prayer, and
+Becbecia, the second, one of his brethren, and Abda the son of Samua,
+the son of Galal, the son of Idithun.
+
+11:18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
+
+11:19. And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the
+doors: a hundred seventy-two.
+
+11:20. And the rest of Israel, the priests and the Levites were in all
+the cities of Juda, every man in his possession.
+
+11:21. And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of
+the Nathinites.
+
+11:22. And the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem, was Azzi the son of
+Bani, the son of Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the son of Micha. Of the
+sons of Asaph, were the singing men in the ministry of the house of God.
+
+11:23. For the king's commandment was concerning them, and an order
+among the singing men day by day.
+
+11:24. And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel of the children of Zara the
+son of Juda was at the hand of the king, in all matters concerning the
+people,
+
+11:25. And in the houses through all their countries. Of the children of
+Juda some dwelt at Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and at
+Dibon, and in the villages thereof: and at Cabseel, and in the villages
+thereof.
+
+11:26. And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at Bethphaleth,
+
+11:27. And at Hasersuel, and at Bersabee, and in the villages thereof,
+
+11:28. And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and in the villages thereof,
+
+11:29. And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and at Jerimuth,
+
+11:30. Zanoa, Odollam, and in their villages, at Lachis and its
+dependencies, and at Azeca and the villages thereof. And they dwelt from
+Bersabee unto the valley of Ennom.
+
+11:31. And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai,
+and at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,
+
+11:32. At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,
+
+11:33. Asor, Rama, Gethaim,
+
+11:34. Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,
+
+11:35. And Ono the valley of craftsmen.
+
+11:36. And of the Levites were portions of Juda and Benjamin.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 12
+
+The priests, and Levites that came up with Zorobabel. The succession of
+high priests: the solemnity of the dedication of the wall.
+
+12:1. Now these are the priests and the Levites, that went up with
+Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,
+
+12:2. Amaria, Melluch, Hattus,
+
+12:3. Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,
+
+12:4. Addo, Genthon, Abia,
+
+12:5. Miamin, Madia, Belga,
+
+12:6. Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum Amoc, Helcias,
+
+12:7. Idaia. These were the chief of the priests, and of their brethren
+in the days of Josue.
+
+12:8. And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Cedmihel, Sarebia, Juda,
+Mathanias, they and their brethren were over the hymns:
+
+12:9. And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their brethren every one in his
+office.
+
+12:10. And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib
+begot Joiada,
+
+12:11. And Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jeddoa.
+
+12:12. And in the days of Joacim the priests and heads of the families
+were: Of Saraia, Maraia: of Jeremias, Hanania:
+
+12:13. Of Esdras, Mosollam: and of Amaria, Johanan:
+
+12:14. Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:
+
+12:15. Of Haram, Edna: of Maraioth, Helci:
+
+12:16. Of Adaia, Zacharia: of Genthon, Mosollam:
+
+12:17. Of Abia, Zechri: of Miamin and Moadia, Phelti:
+
+12:18. Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jonathan:
+
+12:19. Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:
+
+12:20. Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:
+
+12:21. Of Helcias, Hasebia: of Idaia, Nathanael.
+
+12:22. The Levites the chiefs of the families in the days of Eliasib,
+and Joiada, and Johanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded, and the priests in
+the reign of Darius the Persian.
+
+12:23. The sons of Levi, heads of the families were written in the book
+of Chronicles, even unto the days of Jonathan the son of Eliasib.
+
+12:24. Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the
+son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and to
+give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, and to
+wait equally in order.
+
+12:25. Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were
+keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates.
+
+12:26. These were in the days of Joacim the son of Josue, the son of
+Josedec, and in the days of Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the
+priest and scribe.
+
+12:27. And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the
+Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to keep
+the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and
+with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.
+
+12:28. And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of the
+plain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of Nethuphati,
+
+12:29. And from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and
+Azmaveth: for the singing men had built themselves villages round about
+Jerusalem.
+
+12:30. And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified
+the people, and the gates, and the wall.
+
+12:31. And I made the princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I
+appointed two great choirs to give praise. And they went on the right
+hand upon the wall toward the dung gate.
+
+12:32. And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,
+
+12:33. And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Judas, and Benjamin, and
+Semeia, and Jeremias.
+
+12:34. And of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son
+of Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of Michaia,
+the son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,
+
+12:35. And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai,
+Nathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David
+the man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them at the fountain gate.
+
+12:36. And they went up over against them by the stairs of the city of
+David, at the going up of the wall of the house of David, and to the
+water gate eastward:
+
+12:37. And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the
+opposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the
+wall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,
+
+12:38. And above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above
+the fish gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and
+even to the flock gate: and they stood still in the watch gate.
+
+12:39. And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the
+house of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.
+
+12:40. And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea, Elioenai,
+Zacharia, Hanania with trumpets,
+
+12:41. And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar, and Azzi, and Johanan, and
+Melchia, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sung loud, and Jezraia was
+their overseer:
+
+12:42. And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and they
+rejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: their wives also
+and their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar
+off.
+
+12:43. They appointed also in that day men over the storehouses of the
+treasure, for the libations, and for the firstfruits, and for the
+tithes, that the rulers of the city might bring them in by them in
+honour of thanksgiving, for the priests and Levites: for Juda was joyful
+in the priests and Levites that assisted.
+
+12:44. And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of
+expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the
+commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
+
+12:45. For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were
+chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to
+God.
+
+12:46. And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of
+Nehemias gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by
+day, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the
+sons of Aaron.
+
+Sanctified... That is, they gave them that which by the law was set
+aside, and sanctified for their use.
+
+2 Esdras Chapter 13
+
+Divers abuses are reformed.
+
+13:1. And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of
+the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the
+Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:
+
+13:2. Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water:
+and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned
+the curse into blessing.
+
+13:3. And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they
+separated every stranger from Israel.
+
+13:4. And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the
+treasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.
+
+Over this thing, etc... Or, he was faulty in this thing, or in this
+kind.
+
+13:5. And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up
+gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the
+wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing
+men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.
+
+13:6. But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two
+and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king,
+and after certain days I asked the king:
+
+13:7. And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib
+had done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the house
+of God.
+
+13:8. And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels
+of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.
+
+13:9. And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house
+of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.
+
+13:10. And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been
+given them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that
+ministered were fled away every man to his own country:
+
+13:11. And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why
+have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I
+made them to stand in their places.
+
+13:12. And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the
+oil into the storehouses.
+
+13:13. And we set over the storehouses Selemias the priest, and Sadoc
+the scribe, and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the son
+of Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were approved as faithful, and
+to them were committed the portions of their brethren.
+
+13:14. Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my
+kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his
+ceremonies.
+
+13:15. In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the
+sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes,
+and figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem
+on the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on
+which it was lawful to sell.
+
+13:16. Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner
+of wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in
+Jerusalem.
+
+13:17. And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is
+this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day:
+
+13:18. Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all this
+evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel
+by violating the sabbath.
+
+13:19. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at
+rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I
+commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I
+set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens
+on the sabbath day.
+
+13:20. So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed
+without Jerusalem, once or twice.
+
+13:21. And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the
+wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that
+time they came no more on the sabbath.
+
+13:22. I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and
+should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this
+also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of
+thy tender mercies.
+
+13:23. In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of
+Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
+
+13:24. And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could
+not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language
+of this and that people.
+
+13:25. And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of
+them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they
+would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters
+for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:
+
+13:26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and
+surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was
+beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women
+of other countries brought even him to sin.
+
+13:27. And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to
+transgress against our God, and marry strange women:
+
+13:28. And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest,
+was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me.
+
+13:29. Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the
+law of priests and Levites.
+
+13:30. So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the
+courses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:
+
+13:31. And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the
+firstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.
+
+
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