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 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 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 it. 18 The names of them which had mar- 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 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. 24 of the singers also; Eliashib: 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- 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- 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 19 And they gave their hands 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. Before CHRIST about 446. a ch. 10. 1. b ch. 2. 17. © 2 Kings 25. 10. d Dan. 9. 4. Ex. 20. 6. 29. 2 Chr. 6. 40. Dan. 9. 17, 18. THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH. CHAPTER I. 1 Nehemiah, understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem, mourneth, jasteth, and prayeth. 5 His prayer. HE words of a Nehemiah the Ton of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, 5 And said, I beseech thee, dO Lotterill of boven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6 Let thine ear now be attentf1 Kings 8.28, ive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. Dan. 9. 20. h Ps. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 5. We have dealt very corruptly i Deut. 28. 15. against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. month me to pass in the about 445. month Nisan, in the twentieth year of a Artaxerxes the king, | a Ezra 7. 1. that wine was before him: and bI took up the wine, and gave it bch. 1. 11. unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, 3 And said unto the king, dLet the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? 4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God¦ of heaven. 5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy serv e Prov. 15. 13. 41 Kings 1.21. Dan, 2. 4. & 21. 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, 11 So I came to Jerusalem, 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. Jer. 24.9. 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 HEN a Eliashib the high priest ach. 12. 10. and and Larose in the night, IT TONE 13 And I went out by night by 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. 2 And next unto him builded 3f But the fish gate did the sons The names and order of Before NEHEMIAH. 5 And next unto them the TekoCHRIST ites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to hthe work of their Lord. 445. h Judg. 5. 23. i ch. 12. 39. k ch. 2. 8. 1 Or, left Jerusalem unto the broad wall. 1 ch. 12. 38. measure. m ch. 12. 38. 6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the kthrone of the governor on this side the river. 8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they Ifortified Jerusalem unto the Ibroad wall. 9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusa lem. 10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah. 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath↑ Heb.second moab, repaired the other piece, mand the tower of the furnaces. 12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. 13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate. n ch. 2. 13. h. 2. 13. Pch. 2. 14. 9 John 9. 7. n 14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. 15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David. 445. them that builded the wall. 16 After him repaired Nehemiah Before the son of Azbuk, the ruler of CHRIST the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the rpool that 2 Kings 20. was made, and unto the house. of the mighty. 17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part. 18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah. 20. Is. 22. 11. 19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the; armoury at the turning of the 2 Chr. 26.9. wall. 20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired Or, Zaccai. the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. 21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. 22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain. 23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired. Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house. 24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the ver. 19. wall, even unto the corner. 25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the "court of the prison. "Jer. 32. 2. & After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh. |