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And said vnto the Leuites, that taught all Israel, which were holy vnto the Lord, Put the holy Arke in the house, which Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden vpon your shoulders: serue now the Lord your God, and his people Israel.

And his Princes gaue willingly vnto the people, to the Priests and to the Leuites: Hilkiah, and Zachariah, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the Priests for the Passeouer-offerings, two thousand and sixe hundred small cattell, and three hundred oxen.

But hee sent Embassadours to him, saying, What haue I to doe with thee, thou king of Iudah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house, wherewith I haue warre: for God commaunded mee to make haste: forbeare thee from medling with God, who is with mee, that hee destroy thee not.

Neuerthelesse Iosiah would not turne his face from him, but disguised himselfe that he might fight with him, and hearkened not vnto the wordes of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

Iehoiakim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord his God.

And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himselfe before Ieremiah the Prophet, speaking from the mouth of the Lord.

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him sweare by God: but he stiffened his necke, and hardened his heart from turning vnto the Lord God of Israel.

And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising vp betimes, and sending: because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his wordes, and misused his prophets, vntill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedie.

And all the vessels of the house of God great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes: all these he brought to Babylon.

And they burnt the house of God, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdomes of the earth hath the Lord God of heauen giuen mee, and he hath charged me to build him an house in Ierusalem, which is in Iudah: Who is there among you of all his people? the Lord his God be with him, and let him goe vp.

Thus sayth Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heauen hath giuen mee all the kingdomes of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him an house at Ierusalem, which is in Iudah.

Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him goe vp to Ierusalem, which is in Iudah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is the God) which is in Ierusalem.

And whosoeuer remaineth in any place where hee soiourneth, let the men of his place helpe him with siluer, and with golde, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will offering for the house of God that is in Ierusalem.

Then rose vp the chiefe of the fathers of Iudah and Beniamin, and the Priests, and the Leuites, with all them whose spirit God had raised to goe vp, to build the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem.

And some of the chiefe of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Ierusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to set it vp in his place: They gaue after their abilitie, vnto the treasure of the worke, threescore and one thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pound of siluer, and one hundred priests garments. So the priests and the Leuites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

span data-lang="eng" data-trans="kja" data-ref="ezr.2.1" class="versetxt"> Now these are the children of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie, of those which had beene caried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had caried away vnto Babylon, and came againe vnto Ierusalem and Iudah, euery one vnto his citie; Which came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah: The number of the men of the people of Israel. The children of Parosh, two thousand, an hundred seuentie and two. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seuentie and two. The children of Arah, seuen hundred, seuentie and fiue. The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundred and twelue. The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred fiftie and foure. The children of Zattu, nine hundred fourtie and fiue. The children of Zaccai, seuen hundred and threescore. The children of Bani, sixe hundred, fourtie and two. The children of Bebai, sixe hundred, twentie and three. The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred, twentie and two. The children of Adonikam, sixe hundred, sixtie and sixe. The children of Biguai, two thousand fiftie and sixe. The children of Adin, foure hundred, fiftie and foure. The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninetie and eight. The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three. The children of Iorah, an hundred and twelue. The children of Hashum, two hundred twentie and three. The children of Gibbar, ninetie and fiue. The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twentie and three. The children of Netophah, fiftie and sixe. The men of Anathoth, an hundred twentie and eight. The children of Azmaueth, fortie and two. The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundred, and fourtie and three. The children of Ramah and Gaba, sixe hundred, twentie and one. The men of Michmas, an hundred, twentie and two. The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred, twentie and three. The children of Nebo, fiftie and two. The children of Magbish, an hundred fiftie and sixe. The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure. The children of Harim, three hundred and twentie. The children of Lod Hadid, and Ono, seuen hundred, twentie and fiue. The children of Iericho, three hundred fourtie and fiue. The children of Senaah, three thousand and sixe hundred and thirtie. The Priests. The children of Iedaiah, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three. The children of Immer, a thousand, fiftie and two. The children of Pashur, a thousand, two hundred, fourtie and seuen. The children of Harim, a thousand and seuenteene. The Leuites. The children of Ieshua, and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodauia, seuentie and foure. The singers. The children of Asaph, an hundred twentie and eight. The children of 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, in all, an hundred thirtie and nine. The Nethinims. The children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan. The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai, The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephushim, The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah, The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. The children of Solomons seruants. The children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, The children of Iaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami. All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons seruants, were three hundred ninetie and two. And these were they which went vp from Tel-melah, Tel-Harfa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel. The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: sixe hundred fiftie and two. And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, (which tooke a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.) These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but they were not found: therefore were they as polluted, put from the priesthood. And the Tirshatha said vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy things, till there stood vp a priest with Urim & with Thummim. The whole Congregation together, was fourtie and two thousand, three hundred and threescore: Beside their seruants and their maids, of whom there were seuen thousand, three hundred thirtie and seuen: and there were among them two hundred singing men, and singing women. Their horses were seuen hundred, thirtie and sixe: their mules, two hundred fourtie and fiue: Their camels, foure hundred, thirty and fiue: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundred and twentie. And some of the chiefe of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Ierusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to set it vp in his place:

Then stood vp Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, & his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the Altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offrings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Now in the second yere of their coming vnto the house of God at Ierusalem, in the second moneth, began Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and the remnant of their brethren, the Priests and the Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Ierusalem: and appointed the Leuites, from twentie yeeres olde and vpward, to set forward the worke of the house of the Lord.