Nehemiah 7Book 16 of 66 · 72 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

1. Then it was, when the wall was built and I had hung the doors, when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed
2. that I gave the charge of Jerusalem to my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the leader of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.
3. And I said to them, “Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut and bar the doors; and appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his watch station and another in front of his own house.”
4. Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt.
5. Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it:
6. These are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city.
7. Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
8. the sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two
9. the sons of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two
10. the sons of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two
11. the sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen
12. the sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four
13. the sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five
14. the sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty
15. the sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight
16. the sons of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight
17. the sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two
18. the sons of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven
19. the sons of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven
20. the sons of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five
21. the sons of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety-eight
22. the sons of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight
23. the sons of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four
24. the sons of Hariph, one hundred and twelve
25. the sons of Gibeon, ninety-five
26. the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight
27. the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight
28. the men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two
29. the men of Kirjath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three
30. the men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one
31. the men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two
32. the men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three
33. the men of the other Nebo, fifty-two
34. the sons of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four
35. the sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty
36. the sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five
37. the sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one
38. the sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
39. The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three
40. the sons of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two
41. the sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven
42. the sons of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.
43. The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four.
44. The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight.
45. The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight.
46. The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth
47. the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon
48. the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Salmai
49. the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar
50. the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda
51. the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah
52. the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephishesim
53. the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur
54. the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha
55. the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah
56. the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.
57. The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida
58. the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel
59. the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, and the sons of Amon.
60. All the Nethinim, and the sons of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.
61. And these were the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not identify their father’s house nor their lineage, whether they were of Israel:
62. the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two
63. and of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.
64. And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the Urim and Thummim.
65. Altogether the whole assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty
66. besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers.
67. Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five
68. their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
69. And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments.
70. Some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silver minas.
71. And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments.
72. So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the Nethinim, and all Israel dwelt in their cities. When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.