Nehemiah Chapter 7 — Safeguarding the City and the Census

¹Now when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

²I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man and feared God above many.

³I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them; and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

⁴Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

⁵My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:

⁶These are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,

⁷who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.

⁸The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

⁹The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.

¹⁰The children of Arah: six hundred fifty-two.

¹¹The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.

¹²The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

¹³The children of Zattu: eight hundred forty-five.

¹⁴The children of Zaccai: seven hundred sixty.

¹⁵The children of Binnui: six hundred forty-eight.

¹⁶The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-eight.

¹⁷The children of Azgad: two thousand three hundred twenty-two.

¹⁸The children of Adonikam: six hundred sixty-seven.

¹⁹The children of Bigvai: two thousand sixty-seven.

²⁰The children of Adin: six hundred fifty-five.

²¹The children of Ater: of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

²²The children of Hashum: three hundred twenty-eight.

²³The children of Bezai: three hundred twenty-four.

²⁴The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.

²⁵The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.

²⁶The men of Bethlehem and Netophah: one hundred eighty-eight.

²⁷The men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-eight.

²⁸The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.

²⁹The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.

³⁰The men of Ramah and Geba: six hundred twenty-one.

³¹The men of Michmas: one hundred twenty-two.

³²The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.

³³The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.

³⁴The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

³⁵The children of Harim: three hundred twenty.

³⁶The children of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.

³⁷The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.

³⁸The children of Senaah: three thousand nine hundred thirty.

³⁹The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.

⁴⁰The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.

⁴¹The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

⁴²The children of Harim: one thousand seventeen.

⁴³The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.

⁴⁴The singers: the children of Asaph: one hundred forty-eight.

⁴⁵The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai: one hundred thirty-eight.

⁴⁶The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

⁴⁷the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

⁴⁸the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

⁴⁹the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

⁵⁰the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,