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And the sons of Gad ; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon , Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

And the sons of Bela ; Ezbon , and Uzzi , and Uzziel , and Jerimoth , and Iri , five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia , to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem .

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

This Ezra went up from Babylon ; and he was 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.

Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan , and with him fifty males.

And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon .

Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon , and white wool.

All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem .

Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem : and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

The children of Nebo , fifty and two.

The son of Abishua , the son of Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the chief priest:

And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem , and brought unto Babylon , be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem , every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.

And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt ; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon , and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar–bozenai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?

Then they came to Zerubbabel , and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar–haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel .

Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel . And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.