Exact Word Count willingly offered. , an hundred twenty and two. aph, an hundred twenty and eight. nah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim, called after their name: polluted, put from the priesthood. forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, ses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty. come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together ass=hlgree>as one man to Jerusalem. it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening. it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, ass=hlgree>as the duty of every day required; not yet laid. aph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. laid. laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: heard afar off. ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of ass=hlblue>Assur, which brought us up hither. king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. nappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time. not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; this city destroyed. paid unto them. read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter. written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace. ked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls? ked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them. builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up. in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name wass=hlblue>as Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein wass=hlblue>as a record thus written: finished on the third day of the month Adar, which wass=hlblue>as in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. it is written in the book of Moses. had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat, syria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. , the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest: a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him. in the seventh year of the king. thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand; know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem: strengthened ass=hlgree>as the hand of the Lord my God wass=hlblue>as upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me. ; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush. ass=hlblue>ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. entreated of us. gold. upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such ass=hlgree>as lay in wait by the way. the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him wass=hlblue>as Eleazar the son of Phinehass=hlblue>as; and with them wass=hlblue>as Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; written at that time. a burnt offering unto the Lord. tonied. sembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat ass=hlblue>astonied until the evening sacrifice. hamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. it is this day. this; it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this. sembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. thou hast said, so must we do. ahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. |