1
Now when the wall had been built
1and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
2
I gave
2my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of
3the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was
4a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.
3
And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes."
4
The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.
Lists of Returned Exiles
5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of
5those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
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6These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.
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They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah,
7Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
8
the sons of Parosh, 2,172.
9
The sons of Shephatiah, 372.