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proudly, and hardened their neck, and goodness. 26 But they turned, and did not hearken to thy command-revolted from thee, and cast thy law ments, 17 and refused to listen, and behind their backs; and they slew thy remembered not thy wonders which prophets, who testified against them to thou wroughtest with them; and they turn them back to thee, and they hardened their neck, and appointed a wrought great provocations. 27 Then +Gr. govern leader to return to their thou gavest them into the hand of slavery in Egypt: but thou, them that afflicted them, and they did O God, art merciful and compassionate, afflict them: and they cried to thee long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, in the time of their affliction, and thou and thou didst not forsake them. 18 And didst hear them from thy heaven, and still farther they even made to them- in thy great compassions gavest them selves a molten calf, and said, These deliverers, and didst save them from are the gods that brought us up out the hand of them that afflicted them. of Egypt: and they wrought great 28 But when they rested, they did evil provocations. 19 Yet thou in thy great again before thee: so thou leftest them compassions didst not forsake them in in the hands of their enemies, and the wilderness: thou didst not turn away they ruled over them: and they cried from them the pillar of the cloud by again to thee, and thou heardest them day, to guide them in the way, nor from heaven, and didst deliver them the pillar of fire by night, to enlighten in thy great compassions. 29 And thou for them the way wherein they should didst testify against them, to bring walk. 20 And thou gavest thy good them back to thy law: but Gr. that they Spirit to instruct them, and thou didst they hearkened not, but cover. not withhold thy manna from their sinned against thy commandments and mouth, and gavest them water in their thy judgments, which if a man do, he thirst. 21 And thou didst sustain them shall live in them; and they turned forty years in the wilderness; thou their back, and hardened their neck, didst not allow anything to fail them: and heard not. 30 Yet thou didst bear + Gr. grow old. their garments did not wax long with them many years, and didst old, and their feet were not bruised. testify to them by thy Spirit by the 22 Moreover thou gavest them king- hand of thy prophets: but they hearkdoms, and didst divide nations to them: ened not; so thou gavest them into and they inherited the land of Seon the hand of the nations of the land. king of Esebon, and the land of Og 31 But thou in thy many mercies didst king of Basan. 23 And thou didst not appoint them to destruction, and multiply their children as the stars of didst not forsake them; for thou art heaven, and broughtest them into the strong, and merciful, and pitiful. 32And land of which thou spokest to their now, Oour God, the powerful, the great, fathers; 24 and they inherited it: and the mighty, and the terrible, keeping thou didst destroy from before them the thy covenant and thy mercy, let not all dwellers in the land of the Chananites, the trouble seem little in thy sight and thou gavest into their hands them which has come upon us, and our kings, and their kings, and the nations of and our princes, and our priests, and the land, to do unto them as it pleased our prophets, and our fathers, and them. 25 And they took lofty cities, upon all thy people, from the days of and inherited houses full of all good the kings of Assur even to this day. things, wells dug, vineyards, and olive- 33 But thou art righteous in all the yards, and every fruit tree in abund- things that come upon us; for thou ance: so they ate, and were filled, hast wrought faithfully, Gr. the truth. and grew fat, and rioted in thy great but we have greatly sinned. 34 And our

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kings, and our princes, and our priests, | Anæa, 23 Osee, Anania, Asub, 24 Aloes, and our fathers, have not performed Phalaï, Sobec, 25 Reum, Essabana, Maathy law, and have not given heed to sia, 26 and Aia, Ænan, Enam, 27 Maluch, thy commandments, and have not kept thy testimonies which thou didst testify to them. 35 And they did not serve thee in thy kingdom, and in thy great goodness which thou gavest to them, +Gr. sleek, or and in the large and fat shining. land which thou didst furnish before them, and they turned not from their evil devices. 36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good things of it, behold, we are servants upon it: 37 and its produce is abundant for the kings whom thou didst appoint over us because of our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction. 38 And in regard to all these circum+Gr. faith, or, stances we make a covefidelity. nant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests,

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10. And over them that sealed were + Or, governor. Neemias the Artasastha, son of Achalia, and Zedekias, 2 the son of Aræa, and Azaria, and Jeremia, 4 Phasur, Amaria, Melchia, Attus, Sebani, Maluch, 5 Iram, Meramoth, Abdia, Daniel, Gannathon, Baruch, 7 Mesulam, Abia, Miamin, Maazia, Belgai, Samaia: these were priests. And the Levites; Jesus the son of Azania, Banaiu of the sons of Enadad, Cadmiel 10 and his brethren, Sabania, Oduia, Calitan, Phelia, Anan, "Micha, Roob, Asebias, 12 Zacchor, Sarabia, + Probably a 13 Sebania, Odum, the sons see Heb. of Banuæ. 14 The heads of the people; Phoros, Phaath Moab, Elam, Żathuia, 15 the sons of Bani, Asgad, Bebai, 16 Adania, Bagoi, Hedin, 17 Ater, Ezekia, Azur, 18 Oduia, Esam, Besi, 19 Ariph, Anathoth, Nobai, 20 Megaphes, Mesullam, Ezir, 21 Mesozebel, Saduc, Jeddua, 22 Phaltia, Anan,

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Eram, Baana. 28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nathinim, and every one who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding, 29 were urgent with their brethren, and bound them under a curse, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God; to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord, and his judgments, and his ordinances; 30 and that we will not, they said, give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons. 31 And as for the people of the land who bring wares and all manner of merchandise to sell on the sabbath-day, we will not buy of them on the sabbath or on the holy day and we will leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every * debt. And we will impose ordi- + Gr. hand. nances upon ourselves, to levy on ourselves the third part of a didrachm yearly for the service of the house of our God; 33 the shewbread, and the continual meat-offering, and for the continual whole-burnt-offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moon, for the feasts, and for the holy things, and the sin-offerings, to make atonement for Israel, and for the works of the house of our God. 34 And we cast lots for the office of wood-bearing, we the priests, and the Levites, and the people, to bring wood into the house of our God, according to the house of our families, at certain set times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law: 35 and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of the fruit of every tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord: 36 the first-born of

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our sons, and of our cattle, as it is charias, son of Seloni. All the sons written in the law, and the first-born of Phares who dwelt in Jerusalem were of our herds and of our four hundred and sixty-eight men of bulls, &c. flocks, to bring to the house might. And these were the children of our God, for the priests that minister of Benjamin; Selo son of Mesulam, in the house of our God. 37 And the son of Joad, son of Phadaia, son of first-fruits of our corn, and the fruit of Coleia, son of Maasias, son of Ethiel, every tree, of wine, and of oil, will we son of Jesia. 8 And after him Gebe, bring to the priests to the treasury of Seli, nine hundred and twenty-eight. the house of God; and a tithe of our 9 And Joel son of Zechri was overseer land to the Levites: for the Levites over them: and Juda son of Asana was themselves shall receive tithes in all second 'in the city. 10 Of +Gr.of. the cities of the land we the priests: both Jadia son of Joarib, 11 cultivate. 38 And the priest and Jachin. Saraia, son of Elchia, the son of Aaron shall be with the son of Mesulam, son of Sadduc, son of Levites in the tithe of the Levite: and Marioth, son of Etoth, was over the the Levites shall bring up the tenth house of God. 12 And their + Gr. over part of their tithe to the house of our brethren doing the work of against. God, into the treasuries of the house the house were eight hun- prob. read for of God. 39 For the children of Israel dred and twenty-two: and a leader. and the children of Levi shall bring Adaia son of Jeroam, son of Phalalia, into the treasuries the first-fruits of the son of Amasi, son of Zacharia, son corn, and wine, and oil; and there are the of Phassur, son of Melchia, 13 and holy vessels, and the priests, and the his brethren, chiefs of families, two ministers, and the porters, and the hundred and forty-two: and Amasingers: and we will not forsake the sia son of Esdriel, son of Mesarimith, house of our God. son of Emmer, 14 and his brethren, mighty men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight: and their overseer was Badiel son of one of the great men. 15 And of the Levites; Samaia, son of Esricam, Matthanias son of Micha, and Jobeb son of Samui, 18 two hundred and eighty-four. 19 And the porters; Acub, Telamin, and their brethren, a hundred and seventy-two. 22 And the overseer of the Levites was the son of Bani, son of Ozi, the son of Asabia, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph the singers some were over the house of God. + Gr. in front For so was the king's commandment concerning them. 24And Phathaia son of Baseza was in attendance on the king in every matter for the people, 25 and with regard to villages in their country district: and some of the children of Juda dwelt in Cariatharboc, 26 and in Jesu, 27 and in Beersabee: 30 and their villages were Lachis and her lands: and they pitched

11. And the chiefs of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: and the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of every ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities. 2 And the people blessed all the men that volunteered to dwell in Jerusalem. 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda; every man dwelt in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathinim, and the children of the 4 And there servants of Solomon. dwelt in Jerusalem some of the children of Juda, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Juda; Athaia son of Azia, the son of Zacharia, the son of Samaria, the son of Saphatia, the son of Maleleel, and some of the sons of Phares. 5 And Maasia son of Baruch, son of Chalaza, son of Ozia, son of Adaia, son of Joarib, son of Za

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25 When I gathered the porters, 26 it was in the days of Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia: and Esdras was priest and 12. Now these are the priests and scribe. 27 And at the dedication of the Levites that went up with Zoro- the wall of Jerusalem they sought the babel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus, Levites in their places, to bring them Saraia, Jeremia, Esdra, 'Amaria, Ma- to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dediluch, 3 Sechenia. These were the cation and gladness with thankschiefs of the priests, and their brethren giving, and they sounded + Gr. walà. in the days of Jesus. And the Le- cymbals with songs, and Heb. word. vites were, Jesus, Banui, Cadmiel, had psalteries and harps. 28 And the Sarabia, Jodae, Matthania: he was sons of the singers were assembled both + Gr. hands. over the bands, and his from the neighbourhood round about brethren were appointed to the daily to Jerusalem, and from the villages, courses. 10 And Jesus begot Joakim, 29 and from the country: for the singers and Joakim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib built themselves villages by + Gr. in. begot Jodae, and Jodae begot Jona- Jerusalem. 30 And the priests and the than, and Jonathan begot Jadu. 12 And Levites purified themselves, and they in the days of Joakim, his brethren the purified the people, and the porters, priests and the heads of families were, and the wall. And they brought up belonging to Saraia, Amaria; to Jere- the princes of Juda on the wall, and mia, Anania; 13 to Esdra, Mesulam; they appointed two great companies for to Amaria, Joanan; 14 to Amaluch, thanksgiving, and they passed on the Jonathan; to Sechenia, Joseph; 15 to right hand on the wall of the dungAre, Mannas; to Marioth, Elcaï; 16 to gate. 32 And after them went Osaia, Adadai, Zacharia; to Ganathoth, Me- and half the princes of Juda, 33 and solam; 17 to Abia, Zechri; to Miamin, Azarias, and Esdras, and Mesollam, Maadai; to Pheleti, one; 34 and Juda, and Benjamin, and Sato Balgas, Samue; to Se- maias and Jeremia. 35 And some of vid. Heb. and mia, Jonathan; 19 to Joarib, the sons of the priests with trumpets, Matthanai; to Edio, Ozi; Zacharias son of Jonathan, son of Sa20 to Salai, Callai; to Amec, Abed; maias, son of Matthania, son of Mi21 to Elkia, Asabias; to Jedeiu, Na- chaia, son of Zacchur, son of Asaph: thanael. 22 The Levites in the days 36 and his brethren, Sa- These terof Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, maia, and Oziel, Gelod, often varied. and Idua, were recorded heads of fa- Jama, Aia, Nathanael, and Juda, Anani, +Perhaps, milics: also the priests, in to praise with the hymns of David the were recorded. the reign of Darius the Per- man of God; 37 and Esdras the scribe sian. 23 And the sons of Levi, heads was before them, at the gate, to praise of families, were written in the book before them, and they went up by the + Gr. accounts of the chronicles, even to steps of the city of David, in the ascent the days of Joanan son of of the wall, above the house of David, Elisue. 24 And the heads of the Le- even to the water-gate of Ephraim, vites were Asabia, and Sarabia, and 39 and to the fish-gate, and +The text Jesu, and the sons of Cadmiel, and by the tower of Anameel, here. their brethren over against them, and as far as the sheep-gate. were to sing hymns of praise, ac- the singers were heard, and were numcording to the commandment of bered. 43 And in that day they offered

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