King James Version · The Persian return
Nehemiah 12
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Now these are the priests and the that went up with the son of , and : , , , 2, , , 3Shechaniah, , , , Ginnetho, , 5Miamin, Maadiah, , , and , , Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, . These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of . Moreover the : , , , , Judah, and , which was over the , he and his brethren. Also and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches. And begat , also begat , and begat , 11And begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat . And in the days of were priests, the chief of the fathers: of , Meraiah; of , ; 13Of , ; of , ; 14Of Melicu, Jonathan; of , Joseph; 15Of , Adna; of , Helkai; 16Of , ; of Ginnethon, ; 17Of , ; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; 18Of , ; of , Jehonathan; 19And of , ; of , ; 20Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, ; 21Of Hilkiah, ; of , Nethaneel. The in the days of , , and , and , were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the . The , the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of the son of . And the chief of the : , , and the son of , with their brethren over against them, to and to , according to the of the , ward over against ward. , and , , , , , were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the . These were in the days of the son of , the son of , and in the days of the governor, and of the priest, the . And at the dedication of the wall of they sought the out of all their places, to bring them to , to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps. And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about , and from the villages of Netophathi; Also from the house of , and out of the fields of and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about . And the priests and the purified themselves, and purified the people, and the , and the wall. 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 upon the wall toward the dung gate: 32And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, And , , and , 34Judah, and , and , and , And certain of the priests’ sons with ; namely, the son of Jonathan, the son of , the son of , the son of Michaiah, the son of , the son of : And his brethren, , and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, , with the musical instruments of the , and the before them. And at the fountain , which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of , at the going up of the wall, above the house of , even unto the water gate eastward. 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, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall; And from above the of , and above the old , and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison . So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of , and I, and the half of the with me: 41And the priests; , , Miniamin, Michaiah, , , and , with ; And , and , and Eleazar, and , and , and , and , and . And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer. Also that day they offered great , and rejoiced: for had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of was heard even afar off. And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the , for the , for the , and for the , to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of for the priests and : for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the that waited. And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their , and the ward of the purification, according to the of , and of his son. For in the days of and of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of and unto . And all Israel in the days of , and in the days of , gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his : and they things unto the ; and the them unto the children of .
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.