grace hath been shewed from the CHRIST LORD our God, to leave us a rem

457.

| Or, a pin: that is, a con stant and sure abode:

Ps. 13. 3. & 34. 5.

Neh. 9. 36. t Ps. 136. 23.

u ch. 7. 28.

S

nant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give So Is. 22. 23. us a little reviving in our bondage. 9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but "hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

† Heb.

to set up. xis. 5. 2.

Heb. by the hand of thy

servants.

Y ch. 6. 21.

↑ Heb. from mouth to mouth: as 2 Kings 21.

16.

34. 16. Deut. 7. 3.

a Deut. 23. 6.

11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the y filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

12 Now therefore give not Ex. 23. 32. & your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, anor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat b Prov. 13. 22. the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

& 20. 7.

weeping and casting himself
down before the house of God,
there assembled unto him out of
Israel a very great congregation
of men and women and children:
for the people wept very sore.
2 And Shechaniah the son of
Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said unto Ezra,
We have trespassed against Neh. 13. 27.
our God, and have taken strange
wives of the people of the land:
yet now there is hope in Israel
concerning this thing.

d2 Chr. 34. 31.

Heb. to

bring forth.

3 Now therefore let us make da covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that e tremble at the com-ch. 9. 4. mandment of our God; and let it Deut. 7.2.3. be done according to the law. 4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, 1 Chr. 28. 10. and do it.

5 Then arose Ezra, and made i the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they Neh. 5. 12. should do according to this word. And they sware.

6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did cat noi Deut. 9. 18. bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transpun-gression of them that had been carried away.

13 And after all that is come
upon us for our evil deeds, and
for our great trespass, seeing
that thou our God thast
ished us less than our iniquities
deserve, and hast given us such
deliverance as this;

14 Should we dagain break thy 2 Pet. 2. 20, commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? Wouldest not thou be fangry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

f Deut. 9. 8.

Neh. 9. 33. Dan. 9. 14.

15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are h before thee in our tres1 Cor. 15. 17. passes; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

h Rom. 3. 19.

k Ps. 130. 3.

CHAPTER X.

1 Shechaniah encourageth Ezra to reform
the strange marriages. 6 Ezra mourning
assembleth the people. 9 The people, at
the exhortation of Ezra, repent, and prom-
ise amendment. 15 The care to perform

it. 18 The names of them which had mar-
ried strange wires,

The names of those who

EZRA.

had married strange wives.

of this matter, and for the great | Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shem

Before CHRIST rain.

4.57.

† Heb. the
showers.
† Heb. have
caused to
dwell, or,
have
brought
back.

1 Josh. 7. 19.

10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of Prov. 28. 13. your fathers, and do his pleasure: and m separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

m ver. 3.

Or, we have greatly of fended in this thing.

n2 Chr. 30. 8. 1 Or, till this

matter be dispatched.

† Heb.stood.

456.

• 2 Kings 10. 15.

1 Chr. 29. 24.

2 Chr. 30.8.

P Lev. 6.4,6.

aiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
22 And of the sons of Pashur;
Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Ne-
thaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad,
and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the
same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Ju-
dah, and Eliezer.

24 of the singers also; Eliashib:
and of the porters; Shallum, and
Telem, and Uri.

25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

12 Then all the congregation an-
swered and said with a loud voice,
As thou hast said, so must we do.
13 But the people are many, and
it is a time of much rain, and we
are not able to stand without,
neither is this a work of one day
or two: for we are many that
have transgressed in this thing. 27 And of the sons of Zattu; Eli-
14 Let now our rulers of all the oenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and
congregation stand, and let all Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Áziza.
them which have taken strange 28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Je-
wives in our cities come at ap-hohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and
pointed times, and with them Athlai.
the elders of every city, and the
judges thereof, until the fierce
wrath of our God I for this mat-
ter be turned from us.

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

29 And of the sons of Bani; Me-
shullam, Malluch, and Adaiah,
Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
30 And of the sons of Pahath-
moab; Adna, and Chelal, Bena-
iah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezal-
eel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
31 And of the sons of Harim; ;
Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shem-
aiah, Shimeon,
32 Benjamin,
Shemariah.

Malluch, and

33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh, 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,

38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, 39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

18 And among the sons of the
priests there were found that
had taken strange wives: namely,
of the sons of Jeshua the son of
Jozadak, and his brethren; Maa-ai,
seiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and
Gedaliah.

19 And they gave their hands
that they would put away their
wives; and being guilty, they
offered a ram of the flock for
their trespass.

20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

21 And of the sons of Harim;

Before CHRIST 456.

40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Shar-1 Or, Mab

41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.

44 All these had taken strange wives and some of them had wives by whom they had children. !

nalebai, according to some copies.

THE

BOOK OF NEHEMIAH.

Nehemiah vieweth the ruins,

about 445.

NEHEMIAH.

Before ant have found favour in thy CHRIST sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

6 And the king said unto me, † Heb. wife. (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send fch. 5. 14. & me; and I set him fa time.

13. 6.

8 ch. 3. 7.

7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained & to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, Ezra 5. 5. & according to the good hand of my God upon me.

7. 6, 9, 28.

ver. 15.

445.

i Ezra 8. 32.

k 2 Chr. 26. 9. ch. 3. 13.

ch. 1.3. ver. 17.

m ch. 3. 15.

Jer. 31. 49.

9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

10 When Sanballat the Horonite,
and Tobiah the servant, the Am-
nonite, heard of it, it grieved
them exceedingly that there was
come a man to seek the welfare
of the children of Israel.

11 So I came to Jerusalem,
was there three days.

and inciteth the Jews to build.

Before CHRIST 445.

16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work. 17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. 18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strength-92 Sam. 2. 7. ened their hands for this good work.

och. 1. 3.
Ps. 44. 13. &
79.4.

Jer. 24.9.
22. 4.
P ver. 8.

Ez. 5, 14, 15.

79.4. & 80.6.

19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed Ps. 44. 13. & us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the ch. 6. 6. king?

20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heav en, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, Ezra 4. 3 nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem." i

CHAPTER III.

The names and order of them that builded
the wall.

HEN a Eliashib the high priest ach. 12. 10.

and and Larose in the night, IT TONE
and some few men with me; nei-
ther told I any man what my
God had put in my heart to do
at Jerusalem: neither was there
any beast with me, save the
beast that I rode upon.

13 And I went out by night by
the gate of the valley, even be-
fore the dragon well, and to the
dung port, and viewed the walls
of Jerusalem, which were 1bro-
ken down, and the gates thereof
were consumed with fire.

14 Then I went on to the mgate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

15 Then went I up in the night 2Sam. 15.23. by the abrook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and I so returned.

ch. 12. 39.

the priests, band they builded! b John 5. 2.
the sheep gate; they sanctified it,
and set up the doors of it; even
unto the tower of Meah they
sanctified it, unto the tower of
d Hananeel.

2 And next unto him builded
the men of Jericho. And next
to them builded Zaccur the son
of Imri.

3f But the fish gate did the sons
of Hassenaah Build, who also
laid the beams thereof, and set
up the doors thereof, the locks
thereof, and the bars thereof.
4 And next unto them repaired
Meremoth the son of Urijah, the
son of Koz. And next unto
them repaired Meshullam the
son of Berechiah, the son of
Meshezabeel. And next unto
them repaired Zadok the son of
Baana.

NEHEMIAH.