King James Version · The Persian return
Nehemiah 7
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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 were appointed, That I gave my brother , and the ruler of the palace, charge over : for he was a man, and feared above many. And I said unto them, Let not the of 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 , every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house. Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded. And my put into mine to gather together the nobles, and the , and the people, that they might be by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, These are the children of the province, that went up out of , of those that had been , whom the king of had , and came again to and to Judah, every one unto his city; Who came with , , , , Raamiah, Nahamani, , Bilshan, Mispereth, , Nehum, . The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; The children of , two thousand an hundred seventy and two. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two. The children of , of the children of and , two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen. The children of , a thousand two hundred fifty and four. The children of , eight hundred forty and five. The children of , seven hundred and threescore. The children of , six hundred forty and eight. The children of , six hundred twenty and eight. The children of , two thousand three hundred twenty and two. The children of , six hundred threescore and seven. The children of , two thousand threescore and seven. The children of , six hundred fifty and five. The children of of , ninety and eight. The children of , three hundred twenty and eight. The children of , three hundred twenty and four. The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve. The children of , ninety and five. The men of Beth–lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight. The men of , an hundred twenty and eight. The men of Beth–azmaveth, forty and two. The men of Kirjath–jearim, , and , seven hundred forty and three. The men of and , six hundred twenty and one. The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two. The men of Beth–el and , an hundred twenty and three. The men of the other , fifty and two. The children of the other , a thousand two hundred fifty and four. The children of , three hundred and twenty. The children of , three hundred forty and five. The children of , Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one. The children of Senaah, three thousand nine 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 , of , and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four. The singers: the children of , an hundred forty and eight. The porters: the children of , the children of , the children of , the children of , the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight. The Nethinims: the children of , the children of Hashupha, the children of , The children of , the children of Sia, the children of , The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of , 49The children of , the children of , the children of , 50The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of Gazzam, the children of , the children of Phaseah, The children of , the children of , the children of Nephishesim, 53The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of Bazlith, the children of , the children of , The children of , the children of , the children of Tamah, 56The children of , the children of . The children of ’s servants: the children of , the children of , the children of Perida, The children of , the children of , the children of , The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of of Zebaim, the children of Amon. All the Nethinims, and the children of ’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two. And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, , Addon, and : but they could not shew their ’s house, nor their , whether they were of Israel. The children of , the children of , the children of , six hundred forty and two. And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of , which took one of the daughters of the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name. These sought their register among those that were by genealogy, but it was 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 . The whole together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, 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. Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five: 69Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses. And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments. And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver. 72And 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. So the priests, and the , 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 were 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.