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And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in [Shushan](/place/susa_1118) the palace,","osisRef":"Neh.1.1"},{"verseId":16001002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"That [Hanani](/person/hanani_1382), one of my brethren, came, he and _certain_ men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636).","osisRef":"Neh.1.2"},{"verseId":16001003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province _are_ in great affliction and reproach: the wall of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) also _is_ broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.","osisRef":"Neh.1.3"},{"verseId":16001004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned _certain_ days, and fasted, and prayed before the [God](/person/god_1324) of heaven,","osisRef":"Neh.1.4"},{"verseId":16001005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And said, I beseech thee, O [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of heaven, the great and terrible [God](/person/god_1324), that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:","osisRef":"Neh.1.5"},{"verseId":16001006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.","osisRef":"Neh.1.6"},{"verseId":16001007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant [Moses](/person/moses_2108).","osisRef":"Neh.1.7"},{"verseId":16001008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant [Moses](/person/moses_2108), saying, _If_ ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:","osisRef":"Neh.1.8"},{"verseId":16001009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"But _if_ ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, _yet_ will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.","osisRef":"Neh.1.9"},{"verseId":16001010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Now these _are_ thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.","osisRef":"Neh.1.10"},{"verseId":16001011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"O [Lord](/person/god_1324), I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.","osisRef":"Neh.1.11"}]},{"title":"Neh 2","chapterNum":2,"osisRef":"Neh.2","verses":[{"verseId":16002001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of [Artaxerxes](/person/artaxerxes_314) the king, _that_ wine _was_ before him: and I took up the wine, and gave _it_ unto the king. Now I had not been _beforetime_ sad in his presence.","osisRef":"Neh.2.1"},{"verseId":16002002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Wherefore the king said unto me, Why _is_ thy countenance sad, seeing thou _art_ not sick? this _is_ nothing _else_ but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,","osisRef":"Neh.2.2"},{"verseId":16002003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, _lieth_ waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?","osisRef":"Neh.2.3"},{"verseId":16002004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the [God](/person/god_1324) of heaven.","osisRef":"Neh.2.4"},{"verseId":16002005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.","osisRef":"Neh.2.5"},{"verseId":16002006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.","osisRef":"Neh.2.6"},{"verseId":16002007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the [river](/place/river_244), that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;","osisRef":"Neh.2.7"},{"verseId":16002008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And a letter unto [Asaph](/person/asaph_332) the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which _appertained_ to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my [God](/person/god_1324) upon me.","osisRef":"Neh.2.8"},{"verseId":16002009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Then I came to the governors beyond the [river](/place/river_244), and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.","osisRef":"Neh.2.9"},{"verseId":16002010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"When [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) the Horonite, and [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) the servant, the Ammonite, heard _of_ _it_, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682).","osisRef":"Neh.2.10"},{"verseId":16002011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"So I came to [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), and was there three days.","osisRef":"Neh.2.11"},{"verseId":16002012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I _any_ man what my [God](/person/god_1324) had put in my heart to do at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636): neither _was_ _there_ _any_ beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.","osisRef":"Neh.2.12"},{"verseId":16002013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And I went out by night by the [gate](/place/dung_gate_346) of the valley, even before the dragon [well](/place/dragon_spring_343), and to the dung [port](/place/gate_of_the_valley_1195), and viewed the walls of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.","osisRef":"Neh.2.13"},{"verseId":16002014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Then I went on to the [gate](/place/gate_of_the_fountain_428) of the fountain, and to the king’s [pool](/place/pool_691): but _there_ _was_ no place for the beast _that_ _was_ under me to pass.","osisRef":"Neh.2.14"},{"verseId":16002015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the [gate](/place/gate_of_the_valley_1195) of the valley, and _so_ returned.","osisRef":"Neh.2.15"},{"verseId":16002016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told _it_ to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.","osisRef":"Neh.2.16"},{"verseId":16002017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we _are_ in, how [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) _lieth_ waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), that we be no more a reproach.","osisRef":"Neh.2.17"},{"verseId":16002018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Then I told them of the hand of my [God](/person/god_1324) which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for _this_ good _work_.","osisRef":"Neh.2.18"},{"verseId":16002019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"But when [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) the Horonite, and [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) the servant, the Ammonite, and [Geshem](/person/geshem_1307) the Arabian, heard _it_, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What _is_ this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?","osisRef":"Neh.2.19"},{"verseId":16002020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Then answered I them, and said unto them, The [God](/person/god_1324) of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636).","osisRef":"Neh.2.20"}]},{"title":"Neh 3","chapterNum":3,"osisRef":"Neh.3","verses":[{"verseId":16003001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Then [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1099) the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep [gate](/place/sheep_gate_1070); they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the [tower](/place/tower_1179) of Meah they sanctified it, unto the [tower](/place/tower_1179) of [Hananeel](/place/tower_1177).","osisRef":"Neh.3.1"},{"verseId":16003002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And next unto him builded the men of [Jericho](/place/jericho_634). And next to them builded [Zaccur](/person/zaccur_2966) the son of [Imri](/person/imri_605).","osisRef":"Neh.3.2"},{"verseId":16003003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"But the fish [gate](/place/fish_gate_426) did the sons of [Hassenaah](/person/hassenaah_1449) build, who _also_ laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.","osisRef":"Neh.3.3"},{"verseId":16003004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And next unto them repaired [Meremoth](/person/meremoth_2006) the son of [Urijah](/person/urijah_2899), the son of [Koz](/person/koz_1800). And next unto them repaired [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2031) the son of [Berechiah](/person/berechiah_474), the son of [Meshezabeel](/person/meshezabeel_2014). And next unto them repaired [Zadok](/person/zadok_2976) the son of [Baana](/person/baana_581).","osisRef":"Neh.3.4"},{"verseId":16003006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Moreover the old [gate](/place/old_gate_439) repaired [Jehoiada](/person/jehoiada_795) the son of [Paseah](/person/paseah_2282), and [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2032) the son of [Besodeiah](/person/besodeiah_485); they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.","osisRef":"Neh.3.6"},{"verseId":16003007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And next unto them repaired [Melatiah](/person/melatiah_1986) the Gibeonite, and [Jadon](/person/jadon_688) the Meronothite, the men of [Gibeon](/place/gibeon_470), and of [Mizpah](/place/mizpah_811), unto the throne of the governor on this side the [river](/place/river_244).","osisRef":"Neh.3.7"},{"verseId":16003008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Next unto him repaired [Uzziel](/person/uzziel_2934) the son of [Harhaiah](/person/harhaiah_1413), of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired [Hananiah](/person/hananiah_1389) the son of _one_ _of_ the apothecaries, and they fortified [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) unto the [broad](/place/broad_wall_258) wall.","osisRef":"Neh.3.8"},{"verseId":16003009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And next unto them repaired [Rephaiah](/person/rephaiah_2426) the son of [Hur](/person/hur_1574), the ruler of the half part of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636).","osisRef":"Neh.3.9"},{"verseId":16003010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And next unto them repaired [Jedaiah](/person/jedaiah_754) the son of [Harumaph](/person/harumaph_1424), even over against his house. And next unto him repaired [Hattush](/person/hattush_1459) the son of [Hashabniah](/person/hashabniah_1439).","osisRef":"Neh.3.10"},{"verseId":16003011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"[Malchijah](/person/malchijah_1912) the son of [Harim](/person/harim_1417), and [Hashub](/person/hashub_1442) the son of [Pahath-moab](/person/pahath-moab_2266), repaired the other piece, and the [tower](/place/tower_1180) of the furnaces.","osisRef":"Neh.3.11"},{"verseId":16003012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And next unto him repaired [Shallum](/person/shallum_2524) the son of [Halohesh](/person/halohesh_1358), the ruler of the half part of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), he and his daughters.","osisRef":"Neh.3.12"},{"verseId":16003013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"The valley [gate](/place/dung_gate_346) repaired [Hanun](/person/hanun_1405), and the inhabitants of [Zanoah](/place/zanoah_1239); they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung [gate](/place/dung_gate_346).","osisRef":"Neh.3.13"},{"verseId":16003014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"But the dung [gate](/place/dung_gate_346) repaired [Malchiah](/person/malchiah_1904) the son of [Rechab](/person/rechab_2404), the ruler of part of [Beth-haccerem](/place/beth-haccherem_209); he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.","osisRef":"Neh.3.14"},{"verseId":16003015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"But the [gate](/place/gate_of_the_fountain_428) of the fountain repaired [Shallun](/person/shallun_2527) the son of [Col-hozeh](/person/col-hozeh_951), the ruler of part of [Mizpah](/place/mizpah_811); he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the [pool](/place/pool_957) of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of [David](/person/david_994).","osisRef":"Neh.3.15"},{"verseId":16003016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"After him repaired [Nehemiah](/person/nehemiah_2173) the son of [Azbuk](/person/azbuk_550), the ruler of the half part of [Beth-zur](/place/beth-zur_242), unto _the_ _place_ over against the sepulchres of [David](/person/david_994), and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.","osisRef":"Neh.3.16"},{"verseId":16003017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"After him repaired the Levites, [Rehum](/person/rehum_2415) the son of [Bani](/person/bani_394). Next unto him repaired [Hashabiah](/person/hashabiah_1435), the ruler of the half part of [Keilah](/place/keilah_681), in his part.","osisRef":"Neh.3.17"},{"verseId":16003018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"After him repaired their brethren, [Bavai](/person/bavai_417) the son of [Henadad](/person/henadad_1494), the ruler of the half part of [Keilah](/place/keilah_681).","osisRef":"Neh.3.18"},{"verseId":16003019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And next to him repaired [Ezer](/person/ezer_1242) the son of [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_897), the ruler of [Mizpah](/place/mizpah_811), another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning _of_ _the_ _wall_.","osisRef":"Neh.3.19"},{"verseId":16003020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"After him [Baruch](/person/baruch_407) the son of [Zabbai](/person/zabbai_2952) earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning _of_ _the_ _wall_ unto the door of the house of [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1099) the high priest.","osisRef":"Neh.3.20"},{"verseId":16003021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"After him repaired [Meremoth](/person/meremoth_2006) the son of [Urijah](/person/urijah_2899) the son of [Koz](/person/koz_1800) another piece, from the door of the house of [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1099) even to the end of the house of [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1099).","osisRef":"Neh.3.21"},{"verseId":16003022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.","osisRef":"Neh.3.22"},{"verseId":16003023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"After him repaired [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_460) and [Hashub](/person/hashub_1443) over against their house. After him repaired [Azariah](/person/azariah_542) the son of [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1858) the son of [Ananiah](/person/ananiah_257) by his house.","osisRef":"Neh.3.23"},{"verseId":16003024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"After him repaired [Binnui](/person/binnui_511) the son of [Henadad](/person/henadad_1495) another piece, from the house of [Azariah](/person/azariah_542) unto the turning _of_ _the_ _wall_, even unto the corner.","osisRef":"Neh.3.24"},{"verseId":16003025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"[Palal](/person/palal_2268) the son of [Uzai](/person/uzai_2910), over against the turning _of_ _the_ _wall_, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that _was_ by the court of the prison. After him [Pedaiah](/person/pedaiah_2295) the son of [Parosh](/person/parosh_2275).","osisRef":"Neh.3.25"},{"verseId":16003026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in [Ophel](/place/ophel_910), unto _the_ _place_ over against the water [gate](/place/water_gate_1230) toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.","osisRef":"Neh.3.26"},{"verseId":16003027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of [Ophel](/place/ophel_910).","osisRef":"Neh.3.27"},{"verseId":16003028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"From above the horse [gate](/place/horse_gate_582) repaired the priests, every one over against his house.","osisRef":"Neh.3.28"},{"verseId":16003029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"After them repaired [Zadok](/person/zadok_2977) the son of [Immer](/person/immer_600) over against his house. After him repaired also [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2636) the son of [Shechaniah](/person/shechaniah_2586), the keeper of the east [gate](/place/east_gate_349).","osisRef":"Neh.3.29"},{"verseId":16003030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"After him repaired [Hananiah](/person/hananiah_1390) the son of [Shelemiah](/person/shelemiah_2596), and [Hanun](/person/hanun_1406) the sixth son of [Zalaph](/person/zalaph_2981), another piece. After him repaired [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2031) the son of [Berechiah](/person/berechiah_474) over against his chamber.","osisRef":"Neh.3.30"},{"verseId":16003031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"After him repaired [Malchiah](/person/malchiah_1905) the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate [Miphkad](/place/gate_miphkad_863), and to the going up of the corner.","osisRef":"Neh.3.31"},{"verseId":16003032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep [gate](/place/sheep_gate_1070) repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.","osisRef":"Neh.3.32"}]},{"title":"Neh 4","chapterNum":4,"osisRef":"Neh.4","verses":[{"verseId":16004001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"But it came to pass, that when [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.","osisRef":"Neh.4.1"},{"verseId":16004002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And he spake before his brethren and the army of [Samaria](/place/samaria_1022), and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?","osisRef":"Neh.4.2"},{"verseId":16004003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Now [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) the Ammonite _was_ by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.","osisRef":"Neh.4.3"},{"verseId":16004004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Hear, O our [God](/person/god_1324); for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:","osisRef":"Neh.4.4"},{"verseId":16004005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked _thee_ to anger before the builders.","osisRef":"Neh.4.5"},{"verseId":16004006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.","osisRef":"Neh.4.6"},{"verseId":16004007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"But it came to pass, _that_ when [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470), and [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872), and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) were made up, _and_ that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,","osisRef":"Neh.4.7"},{"verseId":16004008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And conspired all of them together to come _and_ to fight against [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), and to hinder it.","osisRef":"Neh.4.8"},{"verseId":16004010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and _there_ _is_ much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.","osisRef":"Neh.4.10"},{"verseId":16004011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.","osisRef":"Neh.4.11"},{"verseId":16004012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us _they_ _will_ _be_ _upon_ _you_.","osisRef":"Neh.4.12"},{"verseId":16004013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, _and_ on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.","osisRef":"Neh.4.13"},{"verseId":16004014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the [Lord](/person/god_1324), _which_ _is_ great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.","osisRef":"Neh.4.14"},{"verseId":16004015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and [God](/person/god_1324) had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.","osisRef":"Neh.4.15"},{"verseId":16004016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And it came to pass from that time forth, _that_ the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers _were_ behind all the house of Judah.","osisRef":"Neh.4.16"},{"verseId":16004017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, _every_ _one_ with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other _hand_ held a weapon.","osisRef":"Neh.4.17"},{"verseId":16004018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and _so_ builded. And he that sounded the trumpet _was_ by me.","osisRef":"Neh.4.18"},{"verseId":16004019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work _is_ great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.","osisRef":"Neh.4.19"},{"verseId":16004020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"In what place _therefore_ ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our [God](/person/god_1324) shall fight for us.","osisRef":"Neh.4.20"},{"verseId":16004021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.","osisRef":"Neh.4.21"},{"verseId":16004022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.","osisRef":"Neh.4.22"},{"verseId":16004023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, _saving_ _that_ every one put them off for washing.","osisRef":"Neh.4.23"}]},{"title":"Neh 5","chapterNum":5,"osisRef":"Neh.5","verses":[{"verseId":16005001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.","osisRef":"Neh.5.1"},{"verseId":16005002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, _are_ many: therefore we take up corn _for_ _them_, that we may eat, and live.","osisRef":"Neh.5.2"},{"verseId":16005003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"_Some_ also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.","osisRef":"Neh.5.3"},{"verseId":16005004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, _and_ _that_ _upon_ our lands and vineyards.","osisRef":"Neh.5.4"},{"verseId":16005005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Yet now our flesh _is_ as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and _some_ of our daughters are brought unto bondage _already_: neither _is_ _it_ in our power _to_ _redeem_ _them_; for other men have our lands and vineyards.","osisRef":"Neh.5.5"},{"verseId":16005006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.","osisRef":"Neh.5.6"},{"verseId":16005007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.","osisRef":"Neh.5.7"},{"verseId":16005008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing _to_ _answer_.","osisRef":"Neh.5.8"},{"verseId":16005009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Also I said, It _is_ not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our [God](/person/god_1324) because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?","osisRef":"Neh.5.9"},{"verseId":16005010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"I likewise, _and_ my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.","osisRef":"Neh.5.10"},{"verseId":16005011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth _part_ of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.","osisRef":"Neh.5.11"},{"verseId":16005012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Then said they, We will restore _them_, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.","osisRef":"Neh.5.12"},{"verseId":16005013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Also I shook my lap, and said, So [God](/person/god_1324) shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the [LORD](/person/god_1324). And the people did according to this promise.","osisRef":"Neh.5.13"},{"verseId":16005014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of [Artaxerxes](/person/artaxerxes_314) the king, _that_ _is_, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.","osisRef":"Neh.5.14"},{"verseId":16005015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"But the former governors that _had_ _been_ before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.5.15"},{"verseId":16005016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants _were_ gathered thither unto the work.","osisRef":"Neh.5.16"},{"verseId":16005017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Moreover _there_ _were_ at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that _are_ about us.","osisRef":"Neh.5.17"},{"verseId":16005018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Now _that_ which was prepared _for_ _me_ daily _was_ one ox _and_ six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.","osisRef":"Neh.5.18"},{"verseId":16005019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Think upon me, my [God](/person/god_1324), for good, _according_ to all that I have done for this people.","osisRef":"Neh.5.19"}]},{"title":"Neh 6","chapterNum":6,"osisRef":"Neh.6","verses":[{"verseId":16006001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now it came to pass, when [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470), and [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872), and [Geshem](/person/geshem_1307) the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and _that_ there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates);","osisRef":"Neh.6.1"},{"verseId":16006002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"That [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) and [Geshem](/person/geshem_1307) sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in _some_ _one_ _of_ the [villages](/place/hakkephirim_507) in the plain of [Ono](/place/ono_909). But they thought to do me mischief.","osisRef":"Neh.6.2"},{"verseId":16006003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I _am_ doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?","osisRef":"Neh.6.3"},{"verseId":16006004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.","osisRef":"Neh.6.4"},{"verseId":16006005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Then sent [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;","osisRef":"Neh.6.5"},{"verseId":16006006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Wherein _was_ written, It is reported among the heathen, and [Gashmu](/person/geshem_1307) saith _it_, _that_ thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.","osisRef":"Neh.6.6"},{"verseId":16006007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), saying, _There_ _is_ a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.","osisRef":"Neh.6.7"},{"verseId":16006008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.","osisRef":"Neh.6.8"},{"verseId":16006009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, _O_ _[God](/person/god_1324)_, strengthen my hands.","osisRef":"Neh.6.9"},{"verseId":16006010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Afterward I came unto the house of [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2637) the son of [Delaiah](/person/delaiah_1003) the son of [Mehetabeel](/person/mehetabeel_1979), who _was_ shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of [God](/person/god_1324), within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.","osisRef":"Neh.6.10"},{"verseId":16006011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Neh.6.11"},{"verseId":16006012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And, lo, I perceived that [God](/person/god_1324) had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) and [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) had hired him.","osisRef":"Neh.6.12"},{"verseId":16006014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"My [God](/person/god_1324), think thou upon [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) and [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) according to these their works, and on the prophetess [Noadiah](/person/noadiah_2209), and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.","osisRef":"Neh.6.14"},{"verseId":16006015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth _day_ of _the_ _month_ Elul, in fifty and two days.","osisRef":"Neh.6.15"},{"verseId":16006016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard _thereof_, and all the heathen that _were_ about us saw _these_ _things_, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.6.16"},{"verseId":16006017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872), and _the_ _letters_ of [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) came unto them.","osisRef":"Neh.6.17"},{"verseId":16006018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"For _there_ _were_ many in Judah sworn unto him, because he _was_ the son in law of [Shechaniah](/person/shechaniah_2587) the son of [Arah](/person/arah_284); and his son [Johanan](/person/johanan_1675) had taken the [daughter](/person/daughter_of_meshullam_987) of [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2031) the son of [Berechiah](/person/berechiah_474).","osisRef":"Neh.6.18"},{"verseId":16006019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. _And_ [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) sent letters to put me in fear.","osisRef":"Neh.6.19"}]},{"title":"Neh 7","chapterNum":7,"osisRef":"Neh.7","verses":[{"verseId":16007001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,","osisRef":"Neh.7.1"},{"verseId":16007002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"That I gave my brother [Hanani](/person/hanani_1382), and [Hananiah](/person/hananiah_1391) the ruler of the palace, charge over [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636): for he _was_ a faithful man, and feared [God](/person/god_1324) above many.","osisRef":"Neh.7.2"},{"verseId":16007003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And I said unto them, Let not the gates of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar _them_: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), every one in his watch, and every one _to_ _be_ over against his house.","osisRef":"Neh.7.3"},{"verseId":16007004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Now the city _was_ large and great: but the people _were_ few therein, and the houses _were_ not builded.","osisRef":"Neh.7.4"},{"verseId":16007005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And my [God](/person/god_1324) put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,","osisRef":"Neh.7.5"},{"verseId":16007006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"These _are_ the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom [Nebuchadnezzar](/person/nebuchadnezzar_2167) the king of [Babylon](/place/babylon_151) had carried away, and came again to [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) and to Judah, every one unto his city;","osisRef":"Neh.7.6"},{"verseId":16007007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Who came with [Zerubbabel](/person/zerubbabel_3054), [Jeshua](/person/joshua_893), [Nehemiah](/person/nehemiah_2171), [Azariah](/person/azariah_543), [Raamiah](/person/reelaiah_2406), [Nahamani](/person/nahamani_2134), [Mordecai](/person/mordecai_2106), [Bilshan](/person/bilshan_505), [Mispereth](/person/mispereth_2099), [Bigvai](/person/bigvai_496), [Nehum](/person/rehum_2413), [Baanah](/person/baanah_585). The number, _I_ _say_, of the men of the people of Israel _was_ _this_;","osisRef":"Neh.7.7"},{"verseId":16007008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"The children of [Parosh](/person/parosh_2274), two thousand an hundred seventy and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.8"},{"verseId":16007009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"The children of [Shephatiah](/person/shephatiah_2661), three hundred seventy and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.9"},{"verseId":16007010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"The children of [Arah](/person/arah_283), six hundred fifty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.10"},{"verseId":16007011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"The children of [Pahath-moab](/person/pahath-moab_2265), of the children of [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_894) and [Joab](/person/joab_1619), two thousand and eight hundred _and_ eighteen.","osisRef":"Neh.7.11"},{"verseId":16007012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"The children of [Elam](/person/elam_1052), a thousand two hundred fifty and four.","osisRef":"Neh.7.12"},{"verseId":16007013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"The children of [Zattu](/person/zattu_2986), eight hundred forty and five.","osisRef":"Neh.7.13"},{"verseId":16007014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"The children of [Zaccai](/person/zaccai_2960), seven hundred and threescore.","osisRef":"Neh.7.14"},{"verseId":16007015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"The children of [Binnui](/person/bani_391), six hundred forty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.15"},{"verseId":16007016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"The children of [Bebai](/person/bebai_420), six hundred twenty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.16"},{"verseId":16007017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"The children of [Azgad](/person/azgad_552), two thousand three hundred twenty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.17"},{"verseId":16007018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"The children of [Adonikam](/person/adonikam_100), six hundred threescore and seven.","osisRef":"Neh.7.18"},{"verseId":16007019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"The children of [Bigvai](/person/bigvai_497), two thousand threescore and seven.","osisRef":"Neh.7.19"},{"verseId":16007020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"The children of [Adin](/person/adin_86), six hundred fifty and five.","osisRef":"Neh.7.20"},{"verseId":16007021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"The children of [Ater](/person/ater_355) of [Hezekiah](/person/hezekiah_1514), ninety and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.21"},{"verseId":16007022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"The children of [Hashum](/person/hashum_1446), three hundred twenty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.22"},{"verseId":16007023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"The children of [Bezai](/person/bezai_488), three hundred twenty and four.","osisRef":"Neh.7.23"},{"verseId":16007025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"The children of [[Gibeon](/person/gibeon_1310)](/place/gibeon_470), ninety and five.","osisRef":"Neh.7.25"},{"verseId":16007026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"The men of [Beth-lehem](/place/bethlehem_218) and [Netophah](/place/netophah_890), an hundred fourscore and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.26"},{"verseId":16007027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"The men of [Anathoth](/place/anathoth_63), an hundred twenty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.27"},{"verseId":16007028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"The men of [Beth-azmaveth](/place/beth-azmaveth_192), forty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.28"},{"verseId":16007029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"The men of [Kirjath-jearim](/place/kiriath-jearim_701), [Chephirah](/place/chephirah_285), and [Beeroth](/place/beeroth_168), seven hundred forty and three.","osisRef":"Neh.7.29"},{"verseId":16007030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"The men of [Ramah](/place/ramah_972) and [Geba](/place/geba_447), six hundred twenty and one.","osisRef":"Neh.7.30"},{"verseId":16007031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"The men of [Michmas](/place/michmas_792), an hundred and twenty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.31"},{"verseId":16007032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"The men of [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202) and [Ai](/place/ai_36), an hundred twenty and three.","osisRef":"Neh.7.32"},{"verseId":16007033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"The men of the other [Nebo](/place/nebo_884), fifty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.33"},{"verseId":16007034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.","osisRef":"Neh.7.34"},{"verseId":16007036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"The children of [Jericho](/place/jericho_634), three hundred forty and five.","osisRef":"Neh.7.36"},{"verseId":16007037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"The children of [Lod](/place/lod_731), [Hadid](/place/hadid_503), and [Ono](/place/ono_909), seven hundred twenty and one.","osisRef":"Neh.7.37"},{"verseId":16007038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.","osisRef":"Neh.7.38"},{"verseId":16007039,"verseNum":39,"mdText":"The priests: the children of [Jedaiah](/person/jedaiah_753), of the house of [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_899), nine hundred seventy and three.","osisRef":"Neh.7.39"},{"verseId":16007040,"verseNum":40,"mdText":"The children of [Immer](/person/immer_599), a thousand fifty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.40"},{"verseId":16007041,"verseNum":41,"mdText":"The children of [Pashur](/person/pashur_2283), a thousand two hundred forty and seven.","osisRef":"Neh.7.41"},{"verseId":16007042,"verseNum":42,"mdText":"The children of [Harim](/person/harim_1416), a thousand and seventeen.","osisRef":"Neh.7.42"},{"verseId":16007043,"verseNum":43,"mdText":"The Levites: the children of [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_895), of [Kadmiel](/person/kadmiel_1767), _and_ of the children of [Hodevah](/person/hodevah_1542), seventy and four.","osisRef":"Neh.7.43"},{"verseId":16007044,"verseNum":44,"mdText":"The singers: the children of [Asaph](/person/asaph_330), an hundred forty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.44"},{"verseId":16007045,"verseNum":45,"mdText":"The porters: the children of [Shallum](/person/shallum_2520), the children of [Ater](/person/ater_356), the children of [Talmon](/person/talmon_2820), the children of [Akkub](/person/akkub_181), the children of [Hatita](/person/hatita_1455), the children of [Shobai](/person/shobai_2718), an hundred thirty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.7.45"},{"verseId":16007046,"verseNum":46,"mdText":"The Nethinims: the children of [Ziha](/person/ziha_3078), the children of [Hashupha](/person/hasupha_1451), the children of [Tabbaoth](/person/tabbaoth_2807),","osisRef":"Neh.7.46"},{"verseId":16007047,"verseNum":47,"mdText":"The children of [Keros](/person/keros_1781), the children of [Sia](/person/sia_2736), the children of [Padon](/person/padon_2263),","osisRef":"Neh.7.47"},{"verseId":16007048,"verseNum":48,"mdText":"The children of [Lebana](/person/lebanah_1814), the children of [Hagaba](/person/hagabah_1347), the children of [Shalmai](/person/shalmai_2528),","osisRef":"Neh.7.48"},{"verseId":16007049,"verseNum":49,"mdText":"The children of [Hanan](/person/hanan_1373), the children of [Giddel](/person/giddel_1312), the children of [Gahar](/person/gahar_1268),","osisRef":"Neh.7.49"},{"verseId":16007050,"verseNum":50,"mdText":"The children of [Reaiah](/person/reaiah_2399), the children of [Rezin](/person/rezin_2436), the children of [Nekoda](/person/nekoda_2175),","osisRef":"Neh.7.50"},{"verseId":16007051,"verseNum":51,"mdText":"The children of [Gazzam](/person/gazzam_1284), the children of [Uzza](/person/uzza_2915), the children of [Phaseah](/person/phaseah_2281),","osisRef":"Neh.7.51"},{"verseId":16007052,"verseNum":52,"mdText":"The children of [Besai](/person/besai_484), the children of [Meunim](/person/mehunim_1985), the children of [Nephishesim](/person/nephusim_2180),","osisRef":"Neh.7.52"},{"verseId":16007053,"verseNum":53,"mdText":"The children of [Bakbuk](/person/bakbuk_591), the children of [Hakupha](/person/hakupha_1356), the children of [Harhur](/person/harhur_1415),","osisRef":"Neh.7.53"},{"verseId":16007054,"verseNum":54,"mdText":"The children of [Bazlith](/person/bazluth_418), the children of [Mehida](/person/mehida_1981), the children of [Harsha](/person/harsha_1422),","osisRef":"Neh.7.54"},{"verseId":16007055,"verseNum":55,"mdText":"The children of [Barkos](/person/barkos_404), the children of [Sisera](/person/sisera_2758), the children of [Tamah](/person/tamah_2846),","osisRef":"Neh.7.55"},{"verseId":16007056,"verseNum":56,"mdText":"The children of [Neziah](/person/neziah_2202), the children of [Hatipha](/person/hatipha_1454).","osisRef":"Neh.7.56"},{"verseId":16007057,"verseNum":57,"mdText":"The children of [Solomon’s](/person/solomon_2762) servants: the children of [Sotai](/person/sotai_2773), the children of [Sophereth](/person/sophereth_2771), the children of [Perida](/person/perida_2318),","osisRef":"Neh.7.57"},{"verseId":16007058,"verseNum":58,"mdText":"The children of [Jaala](/person/jaala_661), the children of [Darkon](/person/darkon_981), the children of [Giddel](/person/giddel_1313),","osisRef":"Neh.7.58"},{"verseId":16007059,"verseNum":59,"mdText":"The children of [Shephatiah](/person/shephatiah_2662), the children of [Hattil](/person/hattil_1456), the children of [Pochereth](/person/pochereth_2364) of Zebaim, the children of [Amon](/person/amon_218).","osisRef":"Neh.7.59"},{"verseId":16007060,"verseNum":60,"mdText":"All the Nethinims, and the children of [Solomon’s](/person/solomon_2762) servants, _were_ three hundred ninety and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.60"},{"verseId":16007061,"verseNum":61,"mdText":"And these _were_ they which went up _also_ from [Tel-melah](/place/tel-melah_1148), [Tel-haresha](/place/tel-harsha_1147), [Cherub](/place/cherub_287), [Addon](/place/addon_25), and [Immer](/place/immer_596): but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they _were_ of Israel.","osisRef":"Neh.7.61"},{"verseId":16007062,"verseNum":62,"mdText":"The children of [Delaiah](/person/delaiah_1002), the children of [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2871), the children of [Nekoda](/person/nekoda_2176), six hundred forty and two.","osisRef":"Neh.7.62"},{"verseId":16007064,"verseNum":64,"mdText":"These sought their register _among_ those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.","osisRef":"Neh.7.64"},{"verseId":16007065,"verseNum":65,"mdText":"And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood _up_ a priest with Urim and Thummim.","osisRef":"Neh.7.65"},{"verseId":16007066,"verseNum":66,"mdText":"The whole congregation together _was_ forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,","osisRef":"Neh.7.66"},{"verseId":16007067,"verseNum":67,"mdText":"Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom _there_ _were_ seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.","osisRef":"Neh.7.67"},{"verseId":16007068,"verseNum":68,"mdText":"Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:","osisRef":"Neh.7.68"},{"verseId":16007069,"verseNum":69,"mdText":"_Their_ camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.","osisRef":"Neh.7.69"},{"verseId":16007070,"verseNum":70,"mdText":"And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.","osisRef":"Neh.7.70"},{"verseId":16007071,"verseNum":71,"mdText":"And _some_ of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.","osisRef":"Neh.7.71"},{"verseId":16007072,"verseNum":72,"mdText":"And _that_ which the rest of the people gave _was_ twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.","osisRef":"Neh.7.72"},{"verseId":16007073,"verseNum":73,"mdText":"So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and _some_ of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) _were_ in their cities.","osisRef":"Neh.7.73"}]},{"title":"Neh 8","chapterNum":8,"osisRef":"Neh.8","verses":[{"verseId":16008001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that _was_ before the water [gate](/place/water_gate_1230); and they spake unto [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the scribe to bring the book of the law of [Moses](/person/moses_2108), which the [LORD](/person/god_1324) had commanded to Israel.","osisRef":"Neh.8.1"},{"verseId":16008002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.","osisRef":"Neh.8.2"},{"verseId":16008003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And he read therein before the street that _was_ before the water [gate](/place/water_gate_1230) from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people _were_ _attentive_ unto the book of the law.","osisRef":"Neh.8.3"},{"verseId":16008004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood [Mattithiah](/person/mattithiah_1976), and [Shema](/person/shema_2617), and [Anaiah](/person/anaiah_250), and [Urijah](/person/urijah_2904), and [Hilkiah](/person/hilkiah_1527), and [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1859), on his right hand; and on his left hand, [Pedaiah](/person/pedaiah_2296), and [Mishael](/person/mishael_2091), and [Malchiah](/person/malchiah_1906), and [Hashum](/person/hashum_1447), and [Hashbadana](/person/hashbadana_1441), [Zechariah](/person/zechariah_3021), _and_ [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2033).","osisRef":"Neh.8.4"},{"verseId":16008005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people); and when he opened it, all the people stood up:","osisRef":"Neh.8.5"},{"verseId":16008006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) blessed the [LORD](/person/god_1324), the great [God](/person/god_1324). And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the [LORD](/person/god_1324) with _their_ faces to the ground.","osisRef":"Neh.8.6"},{"verseId":16008007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Also [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_895), and [Bani](/person/bani_395), and [Sherebiah](/person/sherebiah_2667), [Jamin](/person/jamin_722), [Akkub](/person/akkub_183), [Shabbethai](/person/shabbethai_2510), [Hodijah](/person/hodijah_1545), [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1860), [Kelita](/person/kelita_1772), [Azariah](/person/azariah_544), [Jozabad](/person/jozabad_1744), [Hanan](/person/hanan_1374), [Pelaiah](/person/pelaiah_2302), and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people _stood_ in their place.","osisRef":"Neh.8.7"},{"verseId":16008008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"So they read in the book in the law of [God](/person/god_1324) distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused _them_ to understand the reading.","osisRef":"Neh.8.8"},{"verseId":16008009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And [Nehemiah](/person/nehemiah_2172), which _is_ the Tirshatha, and [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day _is_ holy unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324) your [God](/person/god_1324); mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.","osisRef":"Neh.8.9"},{"verseId":16008010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Then 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 _this_ day _is_ holy unto our [Lord](/person/god_1324): neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) is your strength.","osisRef":"Neh.8.10"},{"verseId":16008011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day _is_ holy; neither be ye grieved.","osisRef":"Neh.8.11"},{"verseId":16008012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.","osisRef":"Neh.8.12"},{"verseId":16008013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.","osisRef":"Neh.8.13"},{"verseId":16008014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And they found written in the law which the [LORD](/person/god_1324) had commanded by [Moses](/person/moses_2108), that the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:","osisRef":"Neh.8.14"},{"verseId":16008015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as _it_ _is_ written.","osisRef":"Neh.8.15"},{"verseId":16008016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"So the people went forth, and brought _them_, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of [God](/person/god_1324), and in the street of the water [gate](/place/water_gate_1230), and in the street of the [gate](/place/water_gate_1230) of [[Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206)](/place/gate_of_ephraim_438).","osisRef":"Neh.8.16"},{"verseId":16008017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of [Jeshua](/person/joshua_1727) the son of [Nun](/person/nun_2214) unto that day had not the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) done so. And there was very great gladness.","osisRef":"Neh.8.17"},{"verseId":16008018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of [God](/person/god_1324). And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day _was_ a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.","osisRef":"Neh.8.18"}]},{"title":"Neh 9","chapterNum":9,"osisRef":"Neh.9","verses":[{"verseId":16009001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.","osisRef":"Neh.9.1"},{"verseId":16009002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.","osisRef":"Neh.9.2"},{"verseId":16009003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) their [God](/person/god_1324) _one_ fourth part of the day; and _another_ fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the [LORD](/person/god_1324) their [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.9.3"},{"verseId":16009004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_895), and [Bani](/person/bani_396), [Kadmiel](/person/kadmiel_1767), [Shebaniah](/person/shebaniah_2573), [Bunni](/person/bunni_526), [Sherebiah](/person/sherebiah_2667), [Bani](/person/bani_396), _and_ [Chenani](/person/chenani_934), and cried with a loud voice unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324) their [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.9.4"},{"verseId":16009005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Then the Levites, [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_895), and [Kadmiel](/person/kadmiel_1767), [Bani](/person/bani_395), [Hashabniah](/person/hashabniah_1440), [Sherebiah](/person/sherebiah_2667), [Hodijah](/person/hodijah_1545), [Shebaniah](/person/shebaniah_2573), _and_ [Pethahiah](/person/pethahiah_2321), said, Stand up _and_ bless the [LORD](/person/god_1324) your [God](/person/god_1324) for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.","osisRef":"Neh.9.5"},{"verseId":16009006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Thou, _even_ thou, _art_ [LORD](/person/god_1324) alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all _things_ that _are_ therein, the seas, and all that _is_ therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.","osisRef":"Neh.9.6"},{"verseId":16009007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Thou _art_ the [LORD](/person/god_1324) the [God](/person/god_1324), who didst choose [Abram](/person/abraham_58), and broughtest him forth out of [Ur](/place/ur_1189) of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of [Abraham](/person/abraham_58);","osisRef":"Neh.9.7"},{"verseId":16009008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give _it_, _I_ _say_, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou _art_ righteous:","osisRef":"Neh.9.8"},{"verseId":16009009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And didst see the affliction of our fathers in [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), and heardest their cry by the [Red](/place/red_sea_986) [sea](/place/red_sea_986);","osisRef":"Neh.9.9"},{"verseId":16009010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And shewedst signs and wonders upon [Pharaoh](/person/pharaoh_2331), and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as _it_ _is_ this day.","osisRef":"Neh.9.10"},{"verseId":16009011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.","osisRef":"Neh.9.11"},{"verseId":16009012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.","osisRef":"Neh.9.12"},{"verseId":16009013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Thou camest down also upon mount [Sinai](/place/mount_sinai_855), and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:","osisRef":"Neh.9.13"},{"verseId":16009014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of [Moses](/person/moses_2108) thy servant:","osisRef":"Neh.9.14"},{"verseId":16009015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.","osisRef":"Neh.9.15"},{"verseId":16009016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,","osisRef":"Neh.9.16"},{"verseId":16009017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou _art_ a [God](/person/god_1324) ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.","osisRef":"Neh.9.17"},{"verseId":16009018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This _is_ thy [God](/person/god_1324) that brought thee up out of [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), and had wrought great provocations;","osisRef":"Neh.9.18"},{"verseId":16009019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.","osisRef":"Neh.9.19"},{"verseId":16009020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.","osisRef":"Neh.9.20"},{"verseId":16009021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, _so_ _that_ they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.","osisRef":"Neh.9.21"},{"verseId":16009022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of [Sihon](/person/sihon_2739), and the land of the king of [Heshbon](/place/heshbon_565), and the land of [Og](/person/og_2238) king of [Bashan](/place/bashan_159).","osisRef":"Neh.9.22"},{"verseId":16009023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess _it_.","osisRef":"Neh.9.23"},{"verseId":16009024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.","osisRef":"Neh.9.24"},{"verseId":16009025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.","osisRef":"Neh.9.25"},{"verseId":16009026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.","osisRef":"Neh.9.26"},{"verseId":16009027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest _them_ from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.","osisRef":"Neh.9.27"},{"verseId":16009028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest _them_ from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;","osisRef":"Neh.9.28"},{"verseId":16009029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.","osisRef":"Neh.9.29"},{"verseId":16009030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.","osisRef":"Neh.9.30"},{"verseId":16009031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou _art_ a gracious and merciful [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.9.31"},{"verseId":16009032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"Now therefore, our [God](/person/god_1324), the great, the mighty, and the terrible [God](/person/god_1324), who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of [Assyria](/place/assyria_111) unto this day.","osisRef":"Neh.9.32"},{"verseId":16009033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"Howbeit thou _art_ just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:","osisRef":"Neh.9.33"},{"verseId":16009034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.","osisRef":"Neh.9.34"},{"verseId":16009035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.","osisRef":"Neh.9.35"},{"verseId":16009036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"Behold, we _are_ servants this day, and _for_ the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we _are_ servants in it:","osisRef":"Neh.9.36"},{"verseId":16009038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"And because of all this we make a sure _covenant_, and write _it_; and our princes, Levites, _and_ priests, seal _unto_ _it_.","osisRef":"Neh.9.38"}]},{"title":"Neh 10","chapterNum":10,"osisRef":"Neh.10","verses":[{"verseId":16010001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now those that sealed _were_, [Nehemiah](/person/nehemiah_2172), the Tirshatha, the son of [Hachaliah](/person/hachaliah_1336), and [Zidkijah](/person/zidkijah_3077),","osisRef":"Neh.10.1"},{"verseId":16010002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"[Seraiah](/person/seraiah_2498), [Azariah](/person/azariah_543), [Jeremiah](/person/jeremiah_854),","osisRef":"Neh.10.2"},{"verseId":16010003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"[Pashur](/person/pashur_2284), [Amariah](/person/amariah_204), [Malchijah](/person/malchijah_1913),","osisRef":"Neh.10.3"},{"verseId":16010004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"[Hattush](/person/hattush_1460), [Shebaniah](/person/shebaniah_2574), [Malluch](/person/malluch_1921),","osisRef":"Neh.10.4"},{"verseId":16010005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"[Harim](/person/rehum_2413), [Meremoth](/person/meremoth_2006), [Obadiah](/person/obadiah_2225),","osisRef":"Neh.10.5"},{"verseId":16010006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"[Daniel](/person/daniel_974), [Ginnethon](/person/ginnethon_1321), [Baruch](/person/baruch_408),","osisRef":"Neh.10.6"},{"verseId":16010007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"[Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2034), [Abijah](/person/abijah_37), [Mijamin](/person/miniamin_2077),","osisRef":"Neh.10.7"},{"verseId":16010008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"[Maaziah](/person/moadiah_1874), [Bilgai](/person/bilgah_501), [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2638): these _were_ the priests.","osisRef":"Neh.10.8"},{"verseId":16010009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And the Levites: both [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_895) the son of [Azaniah](/person/azaniah_368), [Binnui](/person/binnui_512) of the sons of [Henadad](/person/henadad_1493), [Kadmiel](/person/kadmiel_1767);","osisRef":"Neh.10.9"},{"verseId":16010010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And their brethren, [Shebaniah](/person/shebaniah_2573), [Hodijah](/person/hodijah_1545), [Kelita](/person/kelita_1772), [Pelaiah](/person/pelaiah_2302), [Hanan](/person/hanan_1374),","osisRef":"Neh.10.10"},{"verseId":16010011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"[Micha](/person/micha_2056), [Rehob](/person/rehob_2411), [Hashabiah](/person/hashabiah_1434),","osisRef":"Neh.10.11"},{"verseId":16010012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"[Zaccur](/person/zaccur_2967), [Sherebiah](/person/sherebiah_2668), [Shebaniah](/person/shebaniah_2575),","osisRef":"Neh.10.12"},{"verseId":16010013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"[Hodijah](/person/hodijah_1546), [Bani](/person/bani_395), [Beninu](/person/beninu_457).","osisRef":"Neh.10.13"},{"verseId":16010014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"The chief of the people; [Parosh](/person/parosh_2276), [Pahath-moab](/person/pahath-moab_2267), [Elam](/person/elam_1053), [Zatthu](/person/zatthu_2985), [Bani](/person/bani_397),","osisRef":"Neh.10.14"},{"verseId":16010015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"[Bunni](/person/bunni_527), [Azgad](/person/azgad_553), [Bebai](/person/bebai_422),","osisRef":"Neh.10.15"},{"verseId":16010016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"[Adonijah](/person/adonijah_99), [Bigvai](/person/bigvai_498), [Adin](/person/adin_87),","osisRef":"Neh.10.16"},{"verseId":16010017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"[Ater](/person/ater_357), [Hizkijah](/person/hizkijah_1536), [Azzur](/person/azzur_572),","osisRef":"Neh.10.17"},{"verseId":16010018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"[Hodijah](/person/hodijah_1547), [Hashum](/person/hashum_1448), [Bezai](/person/bezai_489),","osisRef":"Neh.10.18"},{"verseId":16010019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"[Hariph](/person/hariph_1419), [Anathoth](/person/anathoth_263), [Nebai](/person/nebai_2163),","osisRef":"Neh.10.19"},{"verseId":16010020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"[Magpiash](/person/magpiash_1883), [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2035), [Hezir](/person/hezir_1517),","osisRef":"Neh.10.20"},{"verseId":16010021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"[Meshezabeel](/person/meshezabeel_2015), [Zadok](/person/zadok_2978), [Jaddua](/person/jaddua_686),","osisRef":"Neh.10.21"},{"verseId":16010022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"[Pelatiah](/person/pelatiah_2306), [Hanan](/person/hanan_1375), [Anaiah](/person/anaiah_251),","osisRef":"Neh.10.22"},{"verseId":16010023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"[Hoshea](/person/hoshea_1561), [Hananiah](/person/hananiah_1392), [Hashub](/person/hashub_1444),","osisRef":"Neh.10.23"},{"verseId":16010024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"[Hallohesh](/person/hallohesh_1357), [Pileha](/person/pileha_2358), [Shobek](/person/shobek_2721),","osisRef":"Neh.10.24"},{"verseId":16010025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"[Rehum](/person/rehum_2416), [Hashabnah](/person/hashabnah_1438), [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1861),","osisRef":"Neh.10.25"},{"verseId":16010026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And [Ahijah](/person/ahijah_140), [Hanan](/person/hanan_1376), [Anan](/person/anan_255),","osisRef":"Neh.10.26"},{"verseId":16010027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"[Malluch](/person/malluch_1922), [Harim](/person/harim_1418), [Baanah](/person/baanah_586).","osisRef":"Neh.10.27"},{"verseId":16010028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of [God](/person/god_1324), their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;","osisRef":"Neh.10.28"},{"verseId":16010029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in [God’s](/person/god_1324) law, which was given by [Moses](/person/moses_2108) the servant of [God](/person/god_1324), and to observe and do all the commandments of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) our [Lord](/person/god_1324), and his judgments and his statutes;","osisRef":"Neh.10.29"},{"verseId":16010030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:","osisRef":"Neh.10.30"},{"verseId":16010031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And _if_ the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, _that_ we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and _that_ we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.","osisRef":"Neh.10.31"},{"verseId":16010032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our [God](/person/god_1324);","osisRef":"Neh.10.32"},{"verseId":16010033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy _things_, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and _for_ all the work of the house of our [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.10.33"},{"verseId":16010034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring _it_ into the house of our [God](/person/god_1324), after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) our [God](/person/god_1324), as _it_ _is_ written in the law:","osisRef":"Neh.10.34"},{"verseId":16010035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the [LORD](/person/god_1324):","osisRef":"Neh.10.35"},{"verseId":16010036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as _it_ _is_ written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our [God](/person/god_1324), unto the priests that minister in the house of our [God](/person/god_1324):","osisRef":"Neh.10.36"},{"verseId":16010037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"And _that_ we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our [God](/person/god_1324); and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.","osisRef":"Neh.10.37"},{"verseId":16010038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"And the priest the son of [Aaron](/person/aaron_1) shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our [God](/person/god_1324), to the chambers, into the treasure house.","osisRef":"Neh.10.38"},{"verseId":16010039,"verseNum":39,"mdText":"For the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) and the children of [Levi](/person/levi_1820) shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where _are_ the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.10.39"}]},{"title":"Neh 11","chapterNum":11,"osisRef":"Neh.11","verses":[{"verseId":16011001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And the rulers of the people dwelt at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636): the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) the holy city, and nine parts _to_ _dwell_ in _other_ cities.","osisRef":"Neh.11.1"},{"verseId":16011002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636).","osisRef":"Neh.11.2"},{"verseId":16011003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Now these _are_ the chief of the province that dwelt in [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636): but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, _to_ _wit_, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of [Solomon’s](/person/solomon_2762) servants.","osisRef":"Neh.11.3"},{"verseId":16011004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) dwelt _certain_ of the children of Judah, and of the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463). Of the children of Judah; [Athaiah](/person/athaiah_358) the son of [Uzziah](/person/uzziah_2928), the son of [Zechariah](/person/zechariah_3022), the son of [Amariah](/person/amariah_205), the son of [Shephatiah](/person/shephatiah_2663), the son of [Mahalaleel](/person/mahalaleel_1886), of the children of [Perez](/person/pharez_2338);","osisRef":"Neh.11.4"},{"verseId":16011005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1862) the son of [Baruch](/person/baruch_409), the son of [Col-hozeh](/person/col-hozeh_952), the son of [Hazaiah](/person/hazaiah_1464), the son of [Adaiah](/person/adaiah_76), the son of [Joiarib](/person/joiarib_1683), the son of [Zechariah](/person/zechariah_3023), the son of [Shiloni](/person/shiloni_2678).","osisRef":"Neh.11.5"},{"verseId":16011006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"All the sons of [Perez](/person/pharez_2338) that dwelt at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) _were_ four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.","osisRef":"Neh.11.6"},{"verseId":16011007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And these _are_ the sons of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463); [Sallu](/person/sallu_2460) the son of [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2036), the son of [Joed](/person/joed_1646), the son of [Pedaiah](/person/pedaiah_2297), the son of [Kolaiah](/person/kolaiah_1791), the son of [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1863), the son of [Ithiel](/person/ithiel_650), the son of [Jesaiah](/person/jesaiah_884).","osisRef":"Neh.11.7"},{"verseId":16011008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And after him [Gabbai](/person/gabbai_1260), [Sallai](/person/sallai_2458), nine hundred twenty and eight.","osisRef":"Neh.11.8"},{"verseId":16011009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And [Joel](/person/joel_1659) the son of [Zichri](/person/zichri_3075) _was_ their overseer: and [Judah](/person/judah_1753) the son of [Senuah](/person/senuah_2490) _was_ second over the city.","osisRef":"Neh.11.9"},{"verseId":16011010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Of the priests: [Jedaiah](/person/jedaiah_752) the son of [Joiarib](/person/joiarib_797), [Jachin](/person/jachin_680).","osisRef":"Neh.11.10"},{"verseId":16011011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"[Seraiah](/person/seraiah_2494) the son of [Hilkiah](/person/hilkiah_1524), the son of [Meshullam](/person/shallum_2519), the son of [Zadok](/person/zadok_2975), the son of [Meraioth](/person/meraioth_2003), the son of [Ahitub](/person/zerahiah_3047), _was_ the ruler of the house of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.11.11"},{"verseId":16011012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And their brethren that did the work of the house _were_ eight hundred twenty and two: and [Adaiah](/person/adaiah_72) the son of [Jeroham](/person/jeroham_877), the son of [Pelaliah](/person/pelaliah_2303), the son of [Amzi](/person/amzi_246), the son of [Zechariah](/person/zechariah_3024), the son of [Pashur](/person/pashur_2283), the son of [Malchiah](/person/malchijah_1909),","osisRef":"Neh.11.12"},{"verseId":16011013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and [Amashai](/person/maasiai_1870) the son of [Azareel](/person/azareel_84), the son of [Ahasai](/person/meshullam_2026), the son of [Meshillemoth](/person/meshillemith_2017), the son of [Immer](/person/immer_598),","osisRef":"Neh.11.13"},{"verseId":16011014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer _was_ [Zabdiel](/person/zabdiel_2958), the son of _one_ _of_ the great men.","osisRef":"Neh.11.14"},{"verseId":16011015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Also of the Levites: [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2623) the son of [Hashub](/person/hasshub_1450), the son of [Azrikam](/person/azrikam_565), the son of [Hashabiah](/person/hashabiah_1429), the son of [Bunni](/person/bunni_528);","osisRef":"Neh.11.15"},{"verseId":16011016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And [Shabbethai](/person/shabbethai_2511) and [Jozabad](/person/jozabad_1745), of the chief of the Levites, _had_ the oversight of the outward business of the house of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.11.16"},{"verseId":16011017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And [Mattaniah](/person/mattaniah_1951) the son of [Micha](/person/micha_2051), the son of [Zabdi](/person/zichri_3069), the son of [Asaph](/person/asaph_331), _was_ the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and [Bakbukiah](/person/bakbukiah_592) the second among his brethren, and [Abda](/person/obadiah_2219) the son of [Shammua](/person/shemaiah_2624), the son of [Galal](/person/galal_1274), the son of [Jeduthun](/person/jeduthun_762).","osisRef":"Neh.11.17"},{"verseId":16011018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"All the Levites in the holy city _were_ two hundred fourscore and four.","osisRef":"Neh.11.18"},{"verseId":16011019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Moreover the porters, [Akkub](/person/akkub_181), [Talmon](/person/talmon_2820), and their brethren that kept the gates, _were_ an hundred seventy and two.","osisRef":"Neh.11.19"},{"verseId":16011020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And the residue of Israel, of the priests, _and_ the Levites, _were_ in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.","osisRef":"Neh.11.20"},{"verseId":16011021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"But the Nethinims dwelt in [Ophel](/place/ophel_910): and [Ziha](/person/ziha_3079) and [Gispa](/person/gispa_1323) _were_ over the Nethinims.","osisRef":"Neh.11.21"},{"verseId":16011022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"The overseer also of the Levites at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) _was_ [Uzzi](/person/uzzi_2921) the son of [Bani](/person/bani_398), the son of [Hashabiah](/person/hashabiah_1436), the son of [Mattaniah](/person/mattaniah_1959), the son of [Micha](/person/michaiah_2057). Of the sons of [Asaph](/person/asaph_330), the singers _were_ over the business of the house of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.11.22"},{"verseId":16011023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"For _it_ _was_ the king’s commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.","osisRef":"Neh.11.23"},{"verseId":16011024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And [Pethahiah](/person/pethahiah_2322) the son of [Meshezabeel](/person/meshezabeel_2016), of the children of [Zerah](/person/zerah_2984) the son of Judah, _was_ at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.","osisRef":"Neh.11.24"},{"verseId":16011025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And for the villages, with their fields, _some_ of the children of Judah dwelt at [Kirjath-arba](/place/kiriath-arba_697), and _in_ the villages thereof, and at [Dibon](/place/dibon_332), and _in_ the villages thereof, and at [Jekabzeel](/place/jekabzeel_633), and _in_ the villages thereof,","osisRef":"Neh.11.25"},{"verseId":16011026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And at [Jeshua](/place/jeshua_640), and at [Moladah](/place/moladah_816), and at [Beth-phelet](/place/beth-pelet_227),","osisRef":"Neh.11.26"},{"verseId":16011027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And at [Hazar-shual](/place/hazar-shual_539), and at [Beer-sheba](/place/beersheba_170), and _in_ the villages thereof,","osisRef":"Neh.11.27"},{"verseId":16011028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And at [Ziklag](/place/ziklag_1259), and at [Mekonah](/place/meconah_774), and in the villages thereof,","osisRef":"Neh.11.28"},{"verseId":16011029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And at [En-rimmon](/place/en-rimmon_394), and at Zareah, and at [Jarmuth](/place/jarmuth_624),","osisRef":"Neh.11.29"},{"verseId":16011030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"[Zanoah](/place/zanoah_1239), [Adullam](/place/adullam_31), and _in_ their villages, at [Lachish](/place/lachish_711), and the fields thereof, at [Azekah](/place/azekah_128), and _in_ the villages thereof. And they dwelt from [Beer-sheba](/place/beersheba_170) unto the valley of [Hinnom](/place/valley_of_hinnom_1207).","osisRef":"Neh.11.30"},{"verseId":16011031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"The children also of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) from [Geba](/place/geba_447) _dwelt_ at [Michmash](/place/michmash_793), and [Aija](/place/aija_39), and [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202), and _in_ their villages,","osisRef":"Neh.11.31"},{"verseId":16011032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"_And_ at [Anathoth](/place/anathoth_63), [Nob](/place/nob_900), [Ananiah](/place/ananiah_62),","osisRef":"Neh.11.32"},{"verseId":16011033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"[Hazor](/place/hazor_548), [Ramah](/place/ramah_972), [Gittaim](/place/gittaim_481),","osisRef":"Neh.11.33"},{"verseId":16011034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"[Hadid](/place/hadid_503), [Zeboim](/place/zeboim_1245), [Neballat](/place/neballat_882),","osisRef":"Neh.11.34"},{"verseId":16011035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"[Lod](/place/lod_731), and [Ono](/place/ono_909), the valley of craftsmen.","osisRef":"Neh.11.35"},{"verseId":16011036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"And of the Levites _were_ divisions _in_ Judah, _and_ in [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463).","osisRef":"Neh.11.36"}]},{"title":"Neh 12","chapterNum":12,"osisRef":"Neh.12","verses":[{"verseId":16012001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now these _are_ the priests and the Levites that went up with [Zerubbabel](/person/zerubbabel_3054) the son of [Shealtiel](/person/shealtiel_2456), and [Jeshua](/person/joshua_893): [Seraiah](/person/seraiah_2498), [Jeremiah](/person/jeremiah_854), [Ezra](/person/ezra_1246),","osisRef":"Neh.12.1"},{"verseId":16012002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"[Amariah](/person/amariah_204), [Malluch](/person/malluch_1921), [Hattush](/person/hattush_1460),","osisRef":"Neh.12.2"},{"verseId":16012003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"[Shechaniah](/person/shebaniah_2574), [Rehum](/person/rehum_2413), [Meremoth](/person/meremoth_2006),","osisRef":"Neh.12.3"},{"verseId":16012004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"[Iddo](/person/iddo_1597), [Ginnetho](/person/ginnethon_1321), [Abijah](/person/abijah_37),","osisRef":"Neh.12.4"},{"verseId":16012005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"[Miamin](/person/miniamin_2077), [Maadiah](/person/moadiah_1874), [Bilgah](/person/bilgah_501),","osisRef":"Neh.12.5"},{"verseId":16012006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"[Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2638), and [Joiarib](/person/joiarib_797), [Jedaiah](/person/jedaiah_752),","osisRef":"Neh.12.6"},{"verseId":16012007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"[Sallu](/person/sallu_2461), [Amok](/person/amok_234), [Hilkiah](/person/hilkiah_1528), [Jedaiah](/person/jedaiah_755). These _were_ the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of [Jeshua](/person/joshua_893).","osisRef":"Neh.12.7"},{"verseId":16012008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Moreover the Levites: [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_895), [Binnui](/person/binnui_512), [Kadmiel](/person/kadmiel_1767), [Sherebiah](/person/sherebiah_2668), [Judah](/person/judah_1754), _and_ [Mattaniah](/person/mattaniah_1951), _which_ _was_ over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.","osisRef":"Neh.12.8"},{"verseId":16012009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Also [Bakbukiah](/person/bakbukiah_592) and [Unni](/person/unni_2892), their brethren, _were_ over against them in the watches.","osisRef":"Neh.12.9"},{"verseId":16012010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And [Jeshua](/person/joshua_893) begat [Joiakim](/person/joiakim_1681), [Joiakim](/person/joiakim_1681) also begat [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1100), and [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1100) begat [Joiada](/person/joiada_1680),","osisRef":"Neh.12.10"},{"verseId":16012011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And [Joiada](/person/joiada_1680) begat [Jonathan](/person/johanan_1698), and [Jonathan](/person/johanan_1698) begat [Jaddua](/person/jaddua_687).","osisRef":"Neh.12.11"},{"verseId":16012012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And in the days of [Joiakim](/person/joiakim_1681) were priests, the chief of the fathers: of [Seraiah](/person/seraiah_2498), [Meraiah](/person/meraiah_2002); of [Jeremiah](/person/jeremiah_854), [Hananiah](/person/hananiah_1393);","osisRef":"Neh.12.12"},{"verseId":16012013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Of [Ezra](/person/ezra_1246), [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2037); of [Amariah](/person/amariah_204), [Jehohanan](/person/jehohanan_789);","osisRef":"Neh.12.13"},{"verseId":16012014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Of [Melicu](/person/malluch_1921), [Jonathan](/person/jonathan_1699); of [Shebaniah](/person/shebaniah_2574), [Joseph](/person/joseph_1714);","osisRef":"Neh.12.14"},{"verseId":16012015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Of [Harim](/person/rehum_2413), [Adna](/person/adna_93); of [Meraioth](/person/meremoth_2006), [Helkai](/person/helkai_1485);","osisRef":"Neh.12.15"},{"verseId":16012016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Of [Iddo](/person/iddo_1597), [Zechariah](/person/zechariah_3025); of [Ginnethon](/person/ginnethon_1321), [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2038);","osisRef":"Neh.12.16"},{"verseId":16012017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Of [Abijah](/person/abijah_37), [Zichri](/person/zichri_3076); of [Miniamin](/person/miniamin_2077), of [Moadiah](/person/moadiah_1874), [Piltai](/person/piltai_2359);","osisRef":"Neh.12.17"},{"verseId":16012018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Of [Bilgah](/person/bilgah_501), [Shammua](/person/shammua_2546); of [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2638), [Jehonathan](/person/jehonathan_802);","osisRef":"Neh.12.18"},{"verseId":16012020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Of [Sallai](/person/sallu_2461), [Kallai](/person/kallai_1768); of [Amok](/person/amok_234), [Eber](/person/eber_1032);","osisRef":"Neh.12.20"},{"verseId":16012021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Of [Hilkiah](/person/hilkiah_1528), [Hashabiah](/person/hashabiah_1437); of [Jedaiah](/person/jedaiah_755), [Nethaneel](/person/nethaneel_2196).","osisRef":"Neh.12.21"},{"verseId":16012022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"The Levites in the days of [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1100), [Joiada](/person/joiada_1680), and [Johanan](/person/johanan_1698), and [Jaddua](/person/jaddua_687), _were_ recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of [Darius](/person/darius_979) the Persian.","osisRef":"Neh.12.22"},{"verseId":16012023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"The sons of [Levi](/person/levi_1820), the chief of the fathers, _were_ written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of [Johanan](/person/johanan_1698) the son of [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1100).","osisRef":"Neh.12.23"},{"verseId":16012024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And the chief of the Levites: [Hashabiah](/person/hashabiah_1434), [Sherebiah](/person/sherebiah_2668), and [Jeshua](/person/jeshua_898) the son of [Kadmiel](/person/kadmiel_1767), with their brethren over against them, to praise _and_ to give thanks, according to the commandment of [David](/person/david_994) the man of [God](/person/god_1324), ward over against ward.","osisRef":"Neh.12.24"},{"verseId":16012025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"[Mattaniah](/person/mattaniah_1951), and [Bakbukiah](/person/bakbukiah_592), [Obadiah](/person/obadiah_2219), [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2039), [Talmon](/person/talmon_2820), [Akkub](/person/akkub_181), _were_ porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.","osisRef":"Neh.12.25"},{"verseId":16012026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"These _were_ in the days of [Joiakim](/person/joiakim_1681) the son of [Jeshua](/person/joshua_893), the son of [Jozadak](/person/josedech_815), and in the days of [Nehemiah](/person/nehemiah_2172) the governor, and of [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the priest, the scribe.","osisRef":"Neh.12.26"},{"verseId":16012027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And at the dedication of the wall of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, _with_ cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.","osisRef":"Neh.12.27"},{"verseId":16012028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), and from the villages of Netophathi;","osisRef":"Neh.12.28"},{"verseId":16012029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"Also from the house of [Gilgal](/place/beth-gilgal_208), and out of the fields of [Geba](/place/geba_447) and [Azmaveth](/place/azmaveth_129): for the singers had builded them villages round about [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636).","osisRef":"Neh.12.29"},{"verseId":16012030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.","osisRef":"Neh.12.30"},{"verseId":16012031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great _companies_ _of_ _them_ _that_ _gave_ thanks, _whereof_ _one_ went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung [gate](/place/dung_gate_346):","osisRef":"Neh.12.31"},{"verseId":16012032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"And after them went [Hoshaiah](/person/hoshaiah_1556), and half of the princes of Judah,","osisRef":"Neh.12.32"},{"verseId":16012033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"And [Azariah](/person/azariah_543), [Ezra](/person/ezra_1246), and [Meshullam](/person/meshullam_2034),","osisRef":"Neh.12.33"},{"verseId":16012034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"[Judah](/person/judah_1754), and [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_461), and [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2638), and [Jeremiah](/person/jeremiah_854),","osisRef":"Neh.12.34"},{"verseId":16012035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"And _certain_ of the priests’ sons with trumpets; _namely_, [Zechariah](/person/zechariah_3026) the son of [Jonathan](/person/jonathan_1700), the son of [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2639), the son of [Mattaniah](/person/mattaniah_1959), the son of [Michaiah](/person/michaiah_2057), the son of [Zaccur](/person/zaccur_2965), the son of [Asaph](/person/asaph_330):","osisRef":"Neh.12.35"},{"verseId":16012036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"And his brethren, [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2640), and [Azarael](/person/azarael_369), [Milalai](/person/milalai_2081), [Gilalai](/person/gilalai_1316), [Maai](/person/maai_1848), [Nethaneel](/person/nethaneel_2197), and [Judah](/person/judah_1755), [Hanani](/person/hanani_1383), with the musical instruments of [David](/person/david_994) the man of [God](/person/god_1324), and [Ezra](/person/ezra_1245) the scribe before them.","osisRef":"Neh.12.36"},{"verseId":16012037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"And at the fountain [gate](/place/gate_of_the_fountain_428), which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of [David](/person/david_994), at the going up of the wall, above the house of [David](/person/david_994), even unto the water [gate](/place/gate_of_the_fountain_428) eastward.","osisRef":"Neh.12.37"},{"verseId":16012038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"And the other _company_ _of_ _them_ _that_ _gave_ thanks went over against _them_, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the [wall](/place/broad_wall_258), from beyond the [tower](/place/tower_1180) of the furnaces even unto the broad [wall](/place/broad_wall_258);","osisRef":"Neh.12.38"},{"verseId":16012040,"verseNum":40,"mdText":"So stood the two _companies_ _of_ _them_ _that_ _gave_ thanks in the house of [God](/person/god_1324), and I, and the half of the rulers with me:","osisRef":"Neh.12.40"},{"verseId":16012042,"verseNum":42,"mdText":"And [Maaseiah](/person/maaseiah_1865), and [Shemaiah](/person/shemaiah_2641), and [Eleazar](/person/eleazar_1068), and [Uzzi](/person/uzzi_2923), and [Jehohanan](/person/jehohanan_790), and [Malchijah](/person/malchijah_1914), and [Elam](/person/elam_1054), and [Ezer](/person/ezer_1243). And the singers sang loud, with [Jezrahiah](/person/jezrahiah_1611) _their_ overseer.","osisRef":"Neh.12.42"},{"verseId":16012043,"verseNum":43,"mdText":"Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for [God](/person/god_1324) had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) was heard even afar off.","osisRef":"Neh.12.43"},{"verseId":16012044,"verseNum":44,"mdText":"And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.","osisRef":"Neh.12.44"},{"verseId":16012045,"verseNum":45,"mdText":"And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their [God](/person/god_1324), and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of [David](/person/david_994), _and_ of [Solomon](/person/solomon_2762) his son.","osisRef":"Neh.12.45"},{"verseId":16012046,"verseNum":46,"mdText":"For in the days of [David](/person/david_994) and [Asaph](/person/asaph_330) of old _there_ _were_ chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.12.46"},{"verseId":16012047,"verseNum":47,"mdText":"And all Israel in the days of [Zerubbabel](/person/zerubbabel_3054), and in the days of [Nehemiah](/person/nehemiah_2172), gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified _holy_ _things_ unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified _them_ unto the children of [Aaron](/person/aaron_1).","osisRef":"Neh.12.47"}]},{"title":"Neh 13","chapterNum":13,"osisRef":"Neh.13","verses":[{"verseId":16013001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"On that day they read in the book of [Moses](/person/moses_2108) in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of [God](/person/god_1324) for ever;","osisRef":"Neh.13.1"},{"verseId":16013002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Because they met not the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) with bread and with water, but hired [Balaam](/person/balaam_593) against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our [God](/person/god_1324) turned the curse into a blessing.","osisRef":"Neh.13.2"},{"verseId":16013003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.","osisRef":"Neh.13.3"},{"verseId":16013004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And before this, [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1101) the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our [God](/person/god_1324), _was_ allied unto [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872):","osisRef":"Neh.13.4"},{"verseId":16013005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded _to_ _be_ _given_ to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.","osisRef":"Neh.13.5"},{"verseId":16013006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But in all this _time_ was not I at [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636): for in the two and thirtieth year of [Artaxerxes](/person/artaxerxes_314) king of [Babylon](/place/babylon_151) came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:","osisRef":"Neh.13.6"},{"verseId":16013007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And I came to [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), and understood of the evil that [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1101) did for [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872), in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Neh.13.7"},{"verseId":16013008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of [Tobiah](/person/tobiah_2872) out of the chamber.","osisRef":"Neh.13.8"},{"verseId":16013009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of [God](/person/god_1324), with the meat offering and the frankincense.","osisRef":"Neh.13.9"},{"verseId":16013010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given _them_: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.","osisRef":"Neh.13.10"},{"verseId":16013011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of [God](/person/god_1324) forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.","osisRef":"Neh.13.11"},{"verseId":16013012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.","osisRef":"Neh.13.12"},{"verseId":16013013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And I made treasurers over the treasuries, [Shelemiah](/person/shelemiah_2597) the priest, and [Zadok](/person/zadok_2979) the scribe, and of the Levites, [Pedaiah](/person/pedaiah_2298): and next to them _was_ [Hanan](/person/hanan_1377) the son of [Zaccur](/person/zaccur_2968), the son of [Mattaniah](/person/mattaniah_1960): for they were counted faithful, and their office _was_ to distribute unto their brethren.","osisRef":"Neh.13.13"},{"verseId":16013015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"In those days saw I in Judah _some_ treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all _manner_ _of_ burdens, which they brought into [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) on the sabbath day: and I testified _against_ _them_ in the day wherein they sold victuals.","osisRef":"Neh.13.15"},{"verseId":16013016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636).","osisRef":"Neh.13.16"},{"verseId":16013017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing _is_ this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?","osisRef":"Neh.13.17"},{"verseId":16013018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Did not your fathers thus, and did not our [God](/person/god_1324) bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.","osisRef":"Neh.13.18"},{"verseId":16013019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And it came to pass, that when the gates of [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and _some_ of my servants set I at the gates, _that_ there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.","osisRef":"Neh.13.19"},{"verseId":16013020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) once or twice.","osisRef":"Neh.13.20"},{"verseId":16013021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do _so_ again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no _more_ on the sabbath.","osisRef":"Neh.13.21"},{"verseId":16013022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and _that_ they should come _and_ keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my [God](/person/god_1324), _concerning_ this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.","osisRef":"Neh.13.22"},{"verseId":16013023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"In those days also saw I Jews _that_ had married wives of [Ashdod](/place/ashdod_101), of [Ammon](/place/ammon_58), _and_ of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815):","osisRef":"Neh.13.23"},{"verseId":16013024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And their children spake half in the speech of [Ashdod](/place/ashdod_101), and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.","osisRef":"Neh.13.24"},{"verseId":16013025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by [God](/person/god_1324), _saying_, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.","osisRef":"Neh.13.25"},{"verseId":16013026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"Did not [Solomon](/person/solomon_2762) king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his [God](/person/god_1324), and [God](/person/god_1324) made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.","osisRef":"Neh.13.26"},{"verseId":16013027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our [God](/person/god_1324) in marrying strange wives?","osisRef":"Neh.13.27"},{"verseId":16013028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And _one_ of the [sons](/person/son_of_joiada_2768) of [Joiada](/person/joiada_1680), the son of [Eliashib](/person/eliashib_1100) the high priest, _was_ son in law to [Sanballat](/person/sanballat_2470) the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.","osisRef":"Neh.13.28"},{"verseId":16013029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"Remember them, O my [God](/person/god_1324), because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.","osisRef":"Neh.13.29"},{"verseId":16013030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;","osisRef":"Neh.13.30"},{"verseId":16013031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my [God](/person/god_1324), for good.","osisRef":"Neh.13.31"}]}]}]}},"pageContext":{"lookupName":"neh"}}}