And I saiduntothem, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be openeduntil the sun be hot; and whiletheystand by, let themshut the doors, and bar them: and appointwatches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be overagainst his house.
And my God put intomineheart to gathertogether the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, thattheymight be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of themwhichcame up at the first, and foundwrittentherein,
These are the children of the province, thatwent up out of the captivity, of thosethat had beencarriedaway, whomNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carriedaway, and cameagain to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
Who camewithZerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
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, an hundredthirty and eight.
And theseweretheywhichwent up alsofromTelmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but theycould not shewtheirfather’shouse, nor theirseed, whethertheywere of Israel.
And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, whichtook one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was calledaftertheirname.
Besidetheirmanservants and theirmaidservants, of whomtherewereseventhousandthreehundredthirty and seven: and they had two hundredforty and fivesinging men and singingwomen.
And some of the chief of the fathersgaveunto the work. The Tirshathagave to the treasure a thousanddrams of gold, fiftybasons, fivehundred and thirtypriests’garments.
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in theircities; and when the seventhmonthcame, the children of Israelwere in theircities.