The Exiles Return
4 The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been built yet. 5 Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:
6 These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town. 7 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.
The number of the Israelite men included:
8 Parosh’s descendants | 2,172 |
9 Shephatiah’s descendants | 372 |
10 Arah’s descendants | 652 |
11 Pahath-moab’s descendants: | |
Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants | 2,818 |
12 Elam’s descendants | 1,254 |
13 Zattu’s descendants | 845 |
14 Zaccai’s descendants | 760 |
15 Binnui’s descendants | 648 |
16 Bebai’s descendants | 628 |
17 Azgad’s descendants | 2,322 |
18 Adonikam’s descendants | 667 |
19 Bigvai’s descendants | 2,067 |
20 Adin’s descendants | 655 |
21 Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah | 98 |
22 Hashum’s descendants | 328 |
23 Bezai’s descendants | 324 |
24 Hariph’s descendants | 112 |
25 Gibeon’s[a] descendants | 95 |
26 Bethlehem’s and Netophah’s men | 188 |
27 Anathoth’s men | 128 |
28 Beth-azmaveth’s men | 42 |
29 Kiriath-jearim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s men | 743 |
30 Ramah’s and Geba’s men | 621 |
31 Michmas’s men | 122 |
32 Bethel’s and Ai’s men | 123 |
33 the other Nebo’s men | 52 |
34 the other Elam’s people | 1,254 |
35 Harim’s people | 320 |
36 Jericho’s people | 345 |
37 Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people | 721 |
38 Senaah’s people | 3,930. |
Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua | 973 |
40 Immer’s descendants | 1,052 |
41 Pashhur’s descendants | 1,247 |
42 Harim’s descendants | 1,017. |
Jeshua’s descendants: of Kadmiel | |
Hodevah’s descendants | 74. |
Asaph’s descendants | 148. |
Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, | |
Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, | |
Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants | 138. |
Tabbaoth’s descendants, 47 Keros’s descendants,
Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
48 Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,
Shalmai’s descendants, 49 Hanan’s descendants,
Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,
50 Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants,
Nekoda’s descendants, 51 Gazzam’s descendants,
Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,
52 Besai’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants,
Nephishesim’s[b] descendants, 53 Bakbuk’s descendants,
Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,
54 Bazlith’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants,
Harsha’s descendants, 55 Barkos’s descendants,
Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,
56 Neziah’s descendants, Hatipha’s descendants.
57 The descendants of Solomon’s servants included:
Perida’s descendants, 58 Jaala’s descendants,
Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
59 Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants,
Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.
60 All the temple servants | |
and the descendants of Solomon’s servants | 392. |
62 Delaiah’s descendants, | |
Tobiah’s descendants, | |
and Nekoda’s descendants | 642 |
66 The whole combined assembly numbered | 42,360 |
67 not including their 7,337 male and female slaves, | |
as well as their 245 male and female singers. | |
68 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,[c] | |
69 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys. |
Public Reading of the Law
When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 7:25 = Gibbar’s in Ezr 2:20
- Nehemiah 7:52 Alt Hb tradition reads Nephushesim’s
- Nehemiah 7:68 Some Hb mss, LXX; Ezr 2:66; other Hb mss omit v. 68
- Nehemiah 7:70 Or drachmas, or darics; also in vv. 71-72
- Nehemiah 7:71 A Babylonian coin worth 50 shekels
- Nehemiah 7:73 The second half of v. 73 is better understood when placed with 8:1.