Chapter 17
¹ And 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, ² that I gave charge to Ananias my brother, and Ananias the ruler of the palace, over Jerusalem: for he was a true man, and one that feared God beyond many. ³ And I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened till sunrise; and while they are still watching, let the doors be shut, and bolted; and set watches of them that dwell in Jerusalem, [every] man at his post, and [every] man over against his house.
Ezra 17:1-3
⁴ Now the city [was] wide and large; and the people [were] few in it, and the houses were not built. ⁵ And God put [it] into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, into companies: and I found a register of the company that came up first, and I found written in it as follows:
Ezra 17:4-5
⁶ Now these [are] the children of the country, that came up from captivity, of the number which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away, and they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, [every] man to his city; ⁷ with Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and Nehemiah, Azariah, and Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Ezra, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah, Masphar, men of the people of Israel.
Ezra 17:6-7
¹¹ The children of Pahath-moab, with the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand six hundred and eighteen.
Ezra 17:11
²⁴ The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve: the children of Asen, two hundred and twenty-three.
Ezra 17:24
²⁶ The children of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty-three: the children of Netophah, fifty-six.
Ezra 17:26
³⁹ The priests; the sons of Jedaiah, [pertaining] to the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
Ezra 17:39
⁴³ The Levites; the children of Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
Ezra 17:43
⁴⁵ The porters; the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.
Ezra 17:45
⁴⁶ The Nathinim; the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, ⁴⁷ the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, ⁴⁸ the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, ⁴⁹ the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, ⁵⁰ the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, ⁵¹ the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, ⁵² the children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim, ⁵³ the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, ⁵⁴ the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, ⁵⁵ the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, ⁵⁶ the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. ⁵⁷ The children of the servants of Solomon; the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, ⁵⁸ the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, ⁵⁹ the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth, the children of Hazzebaim, the children of Amon. ⁶⁰ All the Nathinim, and children of the servants of Solomon, [were] three hundred and ninety-two.
Ezra 17:46-60
⁶¹ And these went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, Immer: but they could not declare the houses of their families, or their seed, whether they were of Israel. ⁶² The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
Ezra 17:61-62
⁶³ And of the priests; the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, for they took wives of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and they were called by their name. ⁶⁴ These sought the pedigree of their company, and it was not found, and they were removed [as polluted] from the priesthood. ⁶⁵ And the Athersastha said, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until a priest should stand up to give light.
Ezra 17:63-65
⁶⁶ And all the congregation was about forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, ⁶⁷ besides their menservants and their maidservants: these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and the singing men and singing women, two hundred and forty-five. ⁶⁹ Two thousand seven hundred asses.
Ezra 17:66-69
⁷⁰ And part of the heads of families gave into the treasury to Nehemiah for the work a thousand pieces of gold, fifty bowls, and thirty priests’ [garments]. ⁷¹ And [some] of the heads of families gave into the treasuries of the work, twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand three hundred pounds of silver. ⁷² And the rest of the people gave twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ [garments].
Ezra 17:70-72