Nehemiah 7:1-28

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Exiles Return

7 When the wall had been rebuilt and I had the doors installed,^(A) the gatekeepers,^(B) singers, and Levites were appointed. ²Then I put my brother Hanani^(C) in charge of Jerusalem,^(D) along with Hananiah,^(E) commander of the fortress,^(F) because he was a faithful man who feared God^(G) more than most. ³I said to them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot, and let the doors be shut and securely fastened while the guards are on duty. Station the citizens of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their homes.”^(H)

⁴The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been built yet.^(I) ⁵Then my God put it into my mind^(J) to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:^(K)

⁶These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar^(L) of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.^(M) ⁷They came with Zerubbabel,^(N) Jeshua,^(O) Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included:

⁸Parosh’s descendants^(P)	2,172
⁹Shephatiah’s descendants	372
¹⁰Arah’s descendants	652
¹¹Pahath-moab’s descendants:
Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants	2,818
¹²Elam’s descendants	1,254
¹³Zattu’s descendants	845
¹⁴Zaccai’s descendants	760
¹⁵Binnui’s descendants	648
¹⁶Bebai’s descendants	628
¹⁷Azgad’s descendants	2,322
¹⁸Adonikam’s descendants^(Q)	667
¹⁹Bigvai’s descendants	2,067
²⁰Adin’s descendants^(R)	655
²¹Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah	98
²²Hashum’s descendants	328
²³Bezai’s descendants	324
²⁴Hariph’s descendants	112
²⁵Gibeon’s^[a] descendants	95
²⁶Bethlehem’s^(S) and Netophah’s^(T) men	188
²⁷Anathoth’s^(U) men	128
²⁸Beth-azmaveth’s men	42