King James Version · The Persian return
Ezra 2
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Now these are the children of the province that went up out of , of those which had been , whom the king of had unto , and came again unto and Judah, every one unto his city; Which came with : , , , Reelaiah, , Bilshan, Mispar, , , . The number of the men of the people of Israel: The children of , two thousand an hundred seventy and two. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. The children of , of the children of and , two thousand eight hundred and twelve. The children of , a thousand two hundred fifty and four. The children of , nine hundred forty and five. The children of , seven hundred and threescore. The children of , six hundred forty and two. The children of , six hundred twenty and three. The children of , a thousand two hundred twenty and two. The children of , six hundred sixty and six. The children of , two thousand fifty and six. The children of , four hundred fifty and four. The children of of , ninety and eight. The children of , three hundred twenty and three. The children of , an hundred and twelve. The children of , two hundred twenty and three. The children of , ninety and five. The children of Beth–lehem, an hundred twenty and three. The men of Netophah, fifty and six. The men of , an hundred twenty and eight. The children of Azmaveth, forty and two. The children of Kirjath–arim, , and , seven hundred and forty and three. The children of and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one. The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two. The men of Beth–el and , two hundred twenty and three. The children of , fifty and two. 30The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six. The children of the other , a thousand two hundred fifty and four. The children of , three hundred and twenty. The children of , Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five. The children of , three hundred forty and five. The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty. The priests: the children of , of the house of , nine hundred seventy and three. The children of , a thousand fifty and two. The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. The children of , a thousand and seventeen. The : the children of and , of the children of , seventy and four. The singers: the children of , an hundred twenty and eight. The children of the porters: the children of , the children of , the children of , the children of , the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine. The Nethinims: the children of , the children of , the children of , The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of , the children of , the children of , 46The children of Hagab, the children of , the children of , 47The children of , the children of , the children of , 48The children of , the children of , the children of Gazzam, The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of , the children of Mehunim, the children of , 51The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of , the children of , the children of Thamah, 54The children of , the children of . The children of ’s servants: the children of , the children of , the children of , The children of Jaalah, the children of , the children of , The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of of Zebaim, the children of . All the Nethinims, and the children of ’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two. And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsa, , Addan, and : but they could not shew their ’s house, and their , whether they were of Israel: The children of Delaiah, the children of , the children of , six hundred fifty and two. And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of ; which took a wife of the daughters of the Gileadite, and was called after their name: These sought their register among those that were by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most things, till there stood up a priest with and with . The whole together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women. 66Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five; 67Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty. And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the which is at , offered freely for the house of to set it up in his place: They gave after their ability unto the of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments. So the priests, and the , and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · The Persian return, 539 BC to 332 BC ›
Persia takes Babylon and reverses its policy, sending exiled peoples home to rebuild their temples. Judah returns as a small province, rebuilding under imperial permission rather than independence.
- Persia
- The largest empire the world had yet seen, from the Indus to the Aegean, run through provinces, a royal road, and a postal system. Its policy on conquered peoples was to send them home and fund their temples, in exchange for loyalty and prayers for the king. The Cyrus Cylinder states the policy in Cyrus's own words, and Ezra opens with the same policy applied to Judah.
- Judah
- A small, poor province called Yehud, a fraction of the old kingdom, with a rebuilt temple that made the people who remembered the first one weep. No king, and no prospect of one. Leadership passes to priests and scribes, which shapes everything afterward.
- Greece
- Persia and Greece collide at Marathon and Salamis, Persia loses, and Athens spends the following decades on the Parthenon, tragedy, and Socrates. Herodotus writes the first history in order to explain that war. Then Plato and Aristotle, whose vocabulary the church will still be using at Nicaea eight centuries later.
- Further afield
- Rome throws out its kings and becomes a republic. In India and China this is the age of the Buddha's early followers and of Confucian teaching taking hold. More of what the world still thinks with was invented in this era than in almost any other.