Those that returned from captiuitie of Bablyon into Ierusalem, and Iurie,
are recited. 47. They restore Gods seruice: 66. but are hindered from
building.
AFTER these thinges there were chosen, to goe vp the princes of townes by
their houses, and tribes, and their wiues, and their sonnes and
daughters, and their men seruantes and wemen seruantes, and their cattel.
(1 Esd 2:1) 2 And Darius the king sent together with them a thousand
horsmen, til they conducted them to Ierusalem with peace, & with musicke
& with tymbrels, and shaulmes: 3 and al the brethren were playing, and
he made them goe vp together with them. 4 And these are the names of the
men that went vp by their townes according to tribes, and according to
the portion of their principalitie. 5 Priestes: The children of
Phinees, the sonne of Aaron, Iesus the sonne of Iosedec, Ioacim the sonne
of Zorobabel, the sonne of Salatheil of the house of Dauid, of the
progenie of Phares, of the tribe of Iuda. 6 Who spake vnder Darius king
of the Persians the meruelous wordes in the second yeare of his reigne
the first moneth Nisan. 7 And they are these, that of Iurie came vp from
the captiuitie of the transmigration, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon transported into Babylon, and returned into Ierusalem.
(1 Esd 2:2 / 2 Esd 7:6) 8 And euerie one sought a part of Iurie
according to his owne citie, they that came with Zorobabel, and Iesus,
Nehemias, Areores, Elimeo, Emmanio, Mardocheo, Beelsuro, Mechpsatochor,
Olioro, Emonia one of their princes. 9 And the number of them of the
same nation, of their rulers the children of Phares, two thousand an
hundred seuentie two: 10 The children of Ares, three thousand an hundred
fiftie seuen: 11 The children of Phoemo, an hundred fourtie two: in the
children of Iesus and Ioabes, a thousand three hundred two: 12 the
children of Demu, two thousand foure hundred seuentie: the children of
Choraba, two hundred fiue: the children of Banica, an hundred sixtie
eight, 13 the children of Bebech, foure hundred three: the children of
Archad, foure hundred twentie seuen: 14 the children of Cham, thirtie
seuen: the children of Zoroar, two thousand sixtie seuen: the children
of Adin, foure hundred sixtie one: 15 the children of Aderectes, an
hundred eight: the children of Ciaso and Zelas an hundred seuen: the
children of Azoroc, foure hundred thirtie nine: 16 the children of
Iedarbone, an hundred thirtie two: the children of Ananias, an hundred
thirtie: the children of Asoni, ninetie: 17 the children of Marsar,
foure hundred twentie two: the children of Zabarus, nintie fiue: the
children of Sepolemon, an hundred twentie three: 18 the children of
Nepopas, fiftie fiue: the children of Hechanatus, an hundred fiftie
eight: the children of Cebethamus, an hundred thirite two: 19 the
children of Crearpatros, which are of Enocadie and Modia, foure hundred
twentie three: they of Gramas and Babea, an hundred twentie one.
20 They of Besselon, and Ceagge, sixtie fiue: they of Bastraro, an
hundred twentie two: 21 they of Bechenobes, fiftie fiue: the children
of Liptis, an hundred fiftie fiue: the children of Labonni, three
hundred fiftie seuen: 22 the children of Sichem, three hundred seuentie:
the children of Suadon, & Cliomus, three hundred seuentie eight: 23 the
children of Ericus, two thousand an hundred fourtie fiue: the children
of Anaas, three hundred seuentie. The priestes: 24 the children of
Ieddus, the sonne of Euther, the sonne of Eliasib, three hundred seuenty
two: the children of Emerus, two hundred fiftie two: 25 the children of
Phasurius, three hundred fiftie seuen the children of Caree, two hundred
twentie seuen. 26 The Leuites: The children of Iesus in Caduhel, and
Bamis, and Serebias, and Edias, seuentie foure, the whole number from the
twelfth yeare, thiritie thousand foure hundred sixtie two. 27 The
sonnes, and daughters, and wiues, the whole number, fourtie thousand two
hundred fourtie two. 28 The children of the Priestes, that sang in the
temple: the children of Asaph, an hundred twentie eight. 29 And the
porters: the children of Esmeni, the children of Azer, the children of
Amon, the children of Accuba, of Topa, the children of Tobi, al an
hundred thirtie nine. 30 Priestes that serued in the temple: the
children of Sel, the children of Gaspha, the children of Tobloch, the
children of Caria, the children of Su, the children of Hellu, the
children of Lobana, the children of Armacha, the children of Accub, the
children of Vtha, the children of Cetha, the children of Aggab, the
children of Obai, the children of Anani, the children of Canna, the
children of Geddu, 31 the children or An, the children of Radin, the
children of Desanon, the children of Nachoba, the children of Caseba, the
children of Gaze, the children of Ozui, the children of Sinone, the
children of Attre, the children of Hasten, the children of Asiana, the
children of Manei, the children of Nasissim, the children of Acusu, the
children of Agista, the children of Azui, the children of Fauon, the
children of Phasalon, 32 the children of Meedda, the children of Phusa,
the children of Caree, the children of Burcus, the children of Saree, the
children of Coesi, the children of Nasith, the children of Agisti, the
children of Pedon. 33 Salomon his children, the children of Asophot, the
children of Phasida, the children of Celi, the children of Dedon, the
children of Gaddehel, the children of Sephegi, 34 the children of Aggia,
the children of Sachareth, the children of Sabathen, the children of
Caroneth, the children of Malsith, the children of Ama, the children of
Sasus, the children of Addus, the children of Suba, the children of Eura,
the children of Rahotis, the children of Phasphat, the children of
Malmon. 35 Al that serued the sanctuarie, and the seruantes of Salomon,
foure hundred eightie two. 36 These are the children that came vp from
Thelmela, Thelharsa: the princes of them, Carmellam, and Careth: 37 and
they could not declare their cities, and their progenies, how they are of
Israel. The children of Dalari, the children of Tubal, the children of
Nechodaici, 38 of the Priestes, that did the function of priesthood: and
there were not found the children of Obia, the children of Achisos, the
children of Addin, who tooke a wife of the daughters of Pargeleu: 39 and
they were called by his name, and the writing of the kinred of these was
sought in the register, and it was not found, and they were forbid to doe
the function of priesthood. 40 And Nehemias and Astharus sayd to them:
Let not the holie thinges be participated, til there arise a hiegh priest
lerned for declaration and truth. 41 And al Israel was beside men
seruantes, and wemen seruantes, fourtie two thousand three hundred
fourtie. 42 Their men seruantes and wemen seruantes, seuen thousand
three hundred thirtie seuen. Singing men and singing wemen, two hundred
three score fiue. 43 Camels, foure hundred thiritie fiue. Horses, seuen
thousand thirtie six. Mules, two hundred thousand fourtie fiue. Beastes
vnder yoke, fiue thousand twentie fiue. 44 And of the rulers themselues
by their villages, when they came into the temple of God, which was in
Ierusalem, to renew and raise vp the temple in his place, according to
their power: 45 and to be geuen into the temple to the sacred treasure
of the workes, of gold twelue thousand mnas, and fiue thousand mnas of
siluer, and stoles for Priestes an hundred. 46 And the Priestes and
Leuites, and they that came out of the people, dwelt in Ierusalem, and in
the countrie, and the sacred singingmen, and porters, and al Israel in
their countries. 47 And the seuenth moneth being at hand, and when the
children of Israel were euerie man in his owne affayres, they came
together with one minde into the court, that was before the east gate.
(1 Esd 3:1) 48 And Iesus the sonne of Iosedec, and his brethren the
priestes: Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and his brethren standing
vp, prepared an altar, 49 that they might offer vpon it holocaustes,
according to the thinges that are writen in the booke of Moyses the man
of God. 50 And there assembled there of other nations of the land, and
al the nations of the land erected the altar in his place, and they
offered hostes, and morning holocaustes to our Lord. 51 And they
celebrated the feast of Tabernacles, and the solemne day, as it is
commanded in the lawe: and sacrifices dayly, as it behoued: 52 and
after these the appointed oblations, and the hostes of the sabbathes, and
of the newmoones, and of al the solemne sanctified dayes. 53 And as
manie as vowed to our Lord from the new moone of the seuenth moneth,
began to offer the hostes to God, and the temple of our Lord was not yet
built. 54 And they gaue monie to the masones and workemen, and drinke
and victuals with ioy. 55 And they gaue cartes to the Sidonians, and
Tyrianes, that with them they should carie ceder beames from Lybanus, and
should make boates in the hauen Ioppe, according to the decre that was
writen for them by Cyrus king of the Persians. 56 And in the second
yeare coming into the temple of God in Ierusalem, in the second moneth
began Zorobel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iosue the sonne of Iosedec, and
their bretheren, and the Priestes and Leuites, and al that were come from
the captiuitie into Ierusalem. 57 and they founded the temple of God in
the newmoone of the second moneth of the second yeare, after that they
came into Iurie and Ierusalem. 58 And they appoynted the Leuites from
twentie yeares, ouer the workes of our Lord: and Iesus stood and his
sonne, and the bretheren, al Leuites ioyning together, & executors of the
lawe, doing the workes in the house of our Lord. 59 And al the Priestes
stood, hauing stoles with trumpettes: 60 and Leuites the children of
Asaph, hauing cymbals together praysing our Lord, and blessing him
according to Dauid king of Israel. 61 And they song a song to our Lord,
because his sweetenes, and honour is for euer vpon Israel. 62 And al the
people sounded with trumpet, and cried out with a loud voice, praysing
our Lord in the raysing vp of the house of our Lord. 63 And there came
of the Priestes and Leuites, and presidentes by their villages the more
ancientes, which had sene the old house: 64 and to the building of this
with crie and great lamentation, and manie with trumpettes and great ioy:
65 in so much that the people heard not the trumpettes for the
lamentatinon of the people. For the multitude was sounding with
trumpettes magnifically, so that it was heard far of. 66 And the enimes
of the tribe of Iuda, and Beniamin heard it, and they came to knowe what
the voyce of the trumpettes was: 67 And they knew that they which were
of the captiuitie doe build a temple to our Lord the God of Israel.
68 And coming to Zorobabel & Iesus, the ouerseers of the villages, they
sayd to them: We will build together with you: (1 Esd 4:2) 69 For we
haue in like maner heard your Lord, & we walke like from the dayes of
Asbazareth king of the Assyrians, who transported vs hither. 70 And
Zorobabel, and Iesus, & the princes of the villages of Israel, sayd to
them: 71 It is not for vs and you to build the house of our God. For we
alone wil build to our Lord of Israel according as Cyrus the king of the
Persians hath commanded. 72 And the nations of the land lying vpon them
that are in Iurie, and lifting vp the worke of the building, and bringing
ambushmentes, and peoples, prohibited them to build. 73 and practising
assaultes hindred them, that the building might not be finished al the
time of the life of king Cyrus, and they differred the building for two
yeares vntil the reigne of Darius.