rotherham Nehemiah:7-9
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:1 @ And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the doorkeepers and the singers and the Levites had been appointed,
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:2 @ that I gave Hanani my brother, and Hananiah captain of the castle, charge over Jerusalem, for, he, was a truly faithful man, and revered God above many.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:3 @ And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until, hot, be the sun, and, while they are standing by, let them close the doors, and make them fast, setting watches, of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one over against his own house.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:4 @ Now, the city, was broad on both hands, and large, but, the people, were few in the midst thereof, and the houses had not been built.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:5 @ So then my God put it into my heart, and I gathered together the nobles and the deputies and the people, to register their genealogy, then found I a register roll, of them who came up at the first, and found written therein:
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:6 @ These, are the sons of the province, who came up from among the Captives of the Exile, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did exile, but they came back to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his own city;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:7 @ who came in with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah, the number of the men of the people of Israel.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:8 @ The sons of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred, and seventy-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:9 @ The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred, and seventy-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:10 @ The sons of Arah, six hundred, and fifty-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:11 @ The sons of Pahath-moab, belonging to the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred, and eighteen;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:12 @ The sons of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:13 @ The sons of Zattu, eight hundred, and forty-five;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:14 @ The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred, and sixty;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:15 @ The sons of Binnui, six hundred, and forty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:16 @ The sons of Bebai, six hundred, and twenty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:17 @ The sons of Azgad, two thousand, three hundred, and twenty-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:18 @ The sons of Adonikam, six hundred, and sixty-seven;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:19 @ The sons of Bigvai, two thousand, and sixty-seven;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:20 @ The sons of Adin, six hundred, and fifty-five;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:21 @ The sons of Ater, pertaining to Hezekiah, ninety-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:22 @ The sons of Hashum, three hundred, and twenty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:23 @ The sons of Bezai, three hundred, and twenty-four;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:24 @ The sons of Hariph, a hundred, and twelve;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:25 @ The sons of Gibeon, ninety-five;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:26 @ The men of Bethlehem, and Netophah, a hundred, and eighty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:27 @ The men of Anathoth, a hundred, and twenty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:28 @ The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:29 @ The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah and Beeroth, seven hundred, and forty-three;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:30 @ The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred, and twenty-one;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:31 @ The men of Mickmas, a hundred, and twenty-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:32 @ The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:33 @ The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:34 @ The sons of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred, and fifty-four;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:35 @ The sons of Harim, three hundred, and twenty;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:36 @ The sons of Jericho, three hundred, and forty-five;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:37 @ The sons of Lod, Hadid and One, seven hundred, and twenty-one;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:38 @ The sons of Senaah, three thousand, nine hundred, and thirty;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:39 @ The priests, The sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Joshua, nine hundred, and seventy-three;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:40 @ The sons of Immer, a thousand, and fifty-two;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:41 @ The sons of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred, and forty-seven;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:42 @ The sons of Harim, a thousand, and seventeen;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:43 @ The Levites, The sons of Joshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:44 @ The singers, The sons of Asaph, a hundred, and forty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:45 @ The doorkeepers, The sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, a hundred, and thirty-eight;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:46 @ The Nethinim, The sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:47 @ the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:48 @ the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Salmai;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:49 @ the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:50 @ the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:51 @ the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:52 @ the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephushesim;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:53 @ the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:54 @ the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:55 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:56 @ the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:57 @ The Sons of the Servants of Solomon, The sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:58 @ the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:59 @ the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amen.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:60 @ All the Nethinim, and the Sons of the Servants of Solomon, were three hundred, and ninety-two.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:61 @ And, these, are they who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not tell their ancestral house, nor their seed, whether, of Israel, they were:
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:62 @ the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two,
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:63 @ And, of the priests, the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who had taken of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:64 @ These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but it was not found, so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:65 @ and the governor told them, they must not eat of the most holy things, until there should stand up a priest, with Lights and Perfections.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:66 @ All the gathered host together, was forty-two thousand, three hundred, and sixty;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:67 @ besides, their men-servants and maid-servants, were these, seven thousand, three hundred, and thirty-seven, and, to them, pertained, singing-men and singing-women, two hundred, and forty-five:
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:68 @ their horses, were seven hundred, and thirty-six, their mules, two hundred, and forty-five;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:69 @ camels, four hundred, and thirty-five, asses, six thousand, seven hundred, and twenty.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:70 @ And, a portion of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the work, the governor, gave unto the treasury, of gold, a thousand darics, tossing bowls, fifty, tunics for priests, five hundred, and thirty;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:71 @ and, some of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the treasury of the work, of gold, twenty thousand darics, and, of silver, two thousand and two hundred manehs;
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:72 @ and, that which the rest of the people gave, was, of gold, twenty thousand darics, and, of silver, two thousand manehs, and, tunics for priests, sixty-seven.
rotherham@Nehemiah:7:73 @ So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the singers and some of the people, and the Nethinim and all Israel, took up their abode in their cities. And, when the seventh month arrived, the sons of Israel were in their cities.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:1 @ Then all the people gathered themselves together as one man, into the broad way that was before the water-gate, and they spake unto Ezra the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:2 @ So then Ezra the priest brought the law, before the convocation of both men and women, and all that had understanding to hearken, on the first day of the seventh month;
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:3 @ and read therein, before the broad place which was before the water-gate, from the time it was light, until the noon of the day, in presence of the men and the women, and such as had understanding, and, the ears of all the people, were unto the book of the law.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:4 @ And Ezra the scribe stood upon a lofty platform of wood, which they had made for the purpose, and there stood, beside him, Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah, on his right hand, and, on his left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, Meshullam.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:5 @ And Ezra the scribe opened the book before the eyes of all the people, for, above all the people, was he, and, when he opened it, all the people, stood up.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:6 @ And Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all the people responded, Amen! Amen! with the lifting up of their hands, and they bent their heads and bowed themselves down unto Yahweh, with their faces to the ground.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:7 @ And, Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, did cause the people to understand the law, the people, remaining in their places.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:8 @ So they read in the book of the law of God, distinctly, and, giving the sense, caused them to understand the reading.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:9 @ Then Nehemiahhe, was the governorand Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who were causing the people to understand, said unto all the people, To-day, is, holy, unto Yahweh your God, do not mourn, nor weep, for, weeping, were all the people, when they heard the words of the law.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:10 @ So he said unto them Go your way, eat the fat and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared, for holy is the day, unto our Lord, and be not grieved, for, the joy of Yahweh, is your strength.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:11 @ And, the Levites, were quieting all the people, saying Hush! for, the day, is holy, and be not grieved.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:12 @ And all the people went their way, to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words which were made known unto them.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:13 @ And, on the second day, were gathered togetherthe ancestral heads of all the people, the priests and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention unto the words of the law.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:14 @ And they found written in the law, that Yahweh gave command through Moses, that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths, during the festival of the seventh month;
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:15 @ and that they should publish and send along a proclamation throughout all their cities and throughout Jerusalem, saying, Forth to the mountain, and bring in branches of olive, and branches of oleaster, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palms, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:16 @ So the people went forth, and brought in, and made themselves booths, every one upon his roof, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water-gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:17 @ And all the convocation of them who had returned out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in booths, for, since the days of Jeshua son of Nun, had not the sons of Israel done so, unto that day, and there was very great rejoicing.
rotherham@Nehemiah:8:18 @ So he read in the book of the law of God, day by day, from the first day unto the last day, and they kept the festival seven days, and, on the eighth day, a closing feast, according to the regulation.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:1 @ Now, on the twenty-fourth day of this month, were the sons of Israel gathered together, with fasting and with sackcloth, having earth upon them.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:2 @ And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all the sons of the foreigner, and stood and made confession over their own sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:3 @ So they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God, a fourth part of the day, and, a fourth part, they were making confession and bowing themselves down, unto Yahweh their God.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:4 @ Then stood up on the platform of the Levites, Jeshua and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and made outcry, with a loud voice, unto Yahweh their God.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:5 @ Then said the Levites Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, Stand up, bless Yahweh your God, from age to age, Yea let them bless thy glorious Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:6 @ Thou, art Yahweh, thou alone, Thou, didst make the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is thereon, the seas and all that is therein, and, thou, holdest them all in life, and, the host of the heavens, unto thee, are bowing down.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:7 @ Thou, art Yahweh, God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and madest his name Abraham;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:8 @ and didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst solemnize with him a covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and didst confirm thy words, for, righteous, thou art.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:9 @ Yea thou sawest the affliction of our fathers, in Egypt, and, their outcry, thou heardest, by the Red Sea;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:10 @ and didst grant signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for thou hadst taken note, that they ruled proudly over them, and so thou didst make thee a name, as at this day.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:11 @ And, the sea, didst thou cleave asunder before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea, on dry ground, whereas, their pursuers, thou didst cast into the depths like a stone, into the mighty waters,
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:12 @ And, in a pillar of cloud, didst thou lead them, by day, and in a pillar of fire, by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:13 @ And, upon Mount Sinai, camest thou down, and spakest with them out of the heavens, and gavest them just regulations, and faithful laws, good statutes and commandments.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:14 @ And, thy holy sabbath, didst thou make known to them, and, commandments and statutes and a law, didst thou command them, through Moses thy servant.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:15 @ And, bread out of the heavens, didst thou give them, for their hunger, and, waters out of the cliff, didst thou bring them, for their thirst, and badest them go in to take possession of the land, which thou hadst lifted thy hand to give them.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:16 @ But, they and our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not unto thy commandments;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:17 @ but refused to hearken, neither kept in mind thy wonders which thou hadst done with them, but they hardened their neck, and appointed a head that they might return to their servitude, in their perverseness. But, thou, art a God of forgivenesses, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and didst not forsake them.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:18 @ Yea, although they made them a molten calf, and said, This, is thy God, that brought thee up out of Egypt, and wrought great insults,
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:19 @ yet, thou, in thine abounding compassions, didst not forsake them in the desert, the pillar of cloud, departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:20 @ And, thy Good Spirit, thou gavest, to instruct them, and, thy manna, thou withheldest not from their mouth, and, water, thou gavest them, for their thirst.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:21 @ Yea, forty years, didst thou sustain them in the desert, they lacked nothing, their mantles, waxed not old and, their feet, swelled not.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:22 @ And thou gavest them kingdoms, and peoples, and allotted to each of them a corner, and they took possession of the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:23 @ Their children also, didst thou multiply, like the stars of the heavens, and didst bring them into the land which thou hadst promised their fathers they should enter to possess;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:24 @ so the children entered and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and deliveredst them into their hand, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:25 @ and they captured fortified cities and a fat soil, and took possession of houses full of every good thing, wells digged, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit-trees, in abundance, so they did eat and were filled and became fat, and luxuriated in thy great goodness.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:26 @ But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee, and they wrought great insults.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:27 @ Therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them, and, in the time of their distress, they made outcry unto thee, and, thou, out of the heavens, didst hear, and, according to thine abounding compassions, gavest them saviors, that they might save them out of the hand of their adversaries.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:28 @ But, as soon as they had rest, they again wrought wickedness before thee, and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, who bare rule over them, yet, when they again made outcry unto thee, thou, from the heavens, didst hear and didst deliver them according to thy compassions, many times;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:29 @ and didst testify against them, to bring them back unto thy law, yet, they, dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, and, against thy regulations, they sinned, the whichif any son of earth shall dothen shall he live by them, and yielded a rebellious shoulder, and, their neck, they stiffened, and hearkened not.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:30 @ And thou didst suffer many years to pass over them, and didst testify against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets, yet did they not give ear, therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:31 @ Yet, in thine abounding compassions, thou didst not make of them an end, neither didst thou forsake them, for, a GOD gracious and full of compassion, thou art.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:32 @ Now, therefore, O our Godthe GOD great, mighty, and fearfulkeeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, which hath come upon uson our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, from the days of the kings of Assyria, until this day.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:33 @ But, thou, art righteous, as to all that hath fallen upon us, for, faithfulness, hast thou wrought, whereas, we, have been lawless;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:34 @ and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law, nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:35 @ But, they, in their kingdom, and in thine abundant goodness which thou gavest them, and in the broad and fat land which thou didst set before them, did not serve thee, neither turned they from their wicked doings.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:36 @ Lo! we, to-day, are bondmeneven upon the land which thou gavest our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, lo! we, are bondmen;
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:37 @ and, the increase thereof, aboundeth unto the kings whom thou hast set over us, for our sins, and, over our bodies, are they bearing rule, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and, in great distress, we are.
rotherham@Nehemiah:9:38 @ Seeing, therefore, all this, we, are plighting our faith, and putting it in writing, and, upon the sealed scroll, are our rulers, our Levites, our priests.
rotherham@Nehemiah:10:1 @ Now, upon the sealed writings, were, Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah;
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