King James Version · The Persian return
Nehemiah 10
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Now those that sealed were, , the Tirshatha, the son of , and Zidkijah, , , , Pashur, , , , , , , , , Daniel, Ginnethon, , , , , , Bilgai, : these were the priests. And the : both the son of Azaniah, of the sons of , ; And their brethren, , Hodijah, , , , Micha, , , , , , 13Hodijah, , . The chief of the people; , , , Zatthu, , , , , , , , 17, Hizkijah, Azzur, Hodijah, , , 19Hariph, , Nebai, 20, , , 21Meshezabeel, , , 22, , Anaiah, 23, , Hashub, 24Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, , Hashabnah, , 26And , , Anan, 27, , . And the rest of the people, the priests, the , the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto of , their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into , and into an , to walk in ’s law, which was given by the , and to observe and do all of our , and his judgments and his ; And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the , or on the day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a for the of the house of our ; For the , and for the continual meat , and for the continual burnt offering, of the , of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the things, and for the to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our . And we cast the lots among the priests, the , and the people, for the wood , to bring it into the house of our , after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the of our , as in : And to bring the of our ground, and the of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the : Also of our sons, and of our cattle, as in , and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our , unto the priests that minister in the house of our : And that we should bring the of our dough, and our , and the fruit of all manner of trees, of and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our ; and the of our ground unto the , that the same might have the in all the cities of our tillage. And the priest the son of shall be with the , when the take : and the shall bring up the of the unto the house of our , to the chambers, into the house. For the and the children of shall bring the of the corn, of the , and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of , and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our .
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.