Now it came to pass when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
I said to them, “Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them, and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
Now the city was wide and large, but the people were few in it and the houses were not built.
Lists of Returned Exiles
My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles and the rulers and the people that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
These are the sons of the province who went up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city;
who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
The sons of Parosh, 2,172.
The sons of Shephatiah, 372.
The sons of Arah, 652.
The sons of Pahathmoab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.
The sons of Elam, 1,254.
The sons of Zattu, 845.
The sons of Zaccai, 760.
The sons of Binnui, 648.
The sons of Bebai, 628.
The sons of Azgad, 2,322.
The sons of Adonikam, 667.
The sons of Bigvai, 2,067.
The sons of Adin, 655.
The sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, 98.
The sons of Hashum, 328.
The sons of Bezai, 324.
The sons of Hariph, 112.
The sons of Gibeon, 95.
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188.
The men of Anathoth, 128.
The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42.
The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.
The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.
The men of Michmas, 122.
The men of Bethel and Ai, 123.
The men of the other Nebo, 52.
The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.
The sons of Harim, 320.
The sons of Jericho, 345.
The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721.
The sons of Senaah, 3,930.
The priests: The sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973.
The sons of Immer, 1,052.
The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.
The sons of Harim, 1,017.
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, 74.
The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.
The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.
The Temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Salmai,
the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah.
The sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephushesim,
the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,
the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amon.
All the Temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.
These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
The sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.
Of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called according to their name.
These searched for their genealogical records, but could not find them. Therefore were they deemed defiled and excluded from the priesthood.
The governor said to them that they could not eat of the most holy things until a priest arose who could consult with the Urim and Thummim.
Totals of People and Gifts
The whole assembly together was 42,360,
besides their male servants and their female servants of whom there were 7,337; and they had 245 singing men and singing women.
Their horses were 736, their mules, 245,
their camels, 435, their donkeys, 6,720.
Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins and 530 priests’ garments.
Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
That which the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, and 2,000 minas of silver and 67 priests’ garments.
So the priests, and the Levites, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.