1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made
a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put italso in writing, saying,
2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the
earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which isin Judah.
3 Who is thereamong you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to
Jerusalem, which isin Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he isthe God,)
which isin Jerusalem.
4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him
with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the
house of God that isin Jerusalem.
5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites,
with all themwhose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which isin
Jerusalem.
6 And all they that wereabout them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold,
with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all thatwas willingly offered.
7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar
had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and
numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
9 And this isthe number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine
and twenty knives,
10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sortfour hundred and ten, andother vessels
a thousand.
11 All the vessels of gold and of silver werefive thousand and four hundred. All thesedid
Sheshbazzar bring up with them ofthe captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto
Jerusalem.
1 Now these arethe children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which
had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto
Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar,
Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
3 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua andJoab, two thousand eight hundred
and twelve.
7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
18 The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.

19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
21 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
27 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
30 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.
34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.
36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and
four.
41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of
Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, inall an hundred
thirty and nine.
43 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,
47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
50 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
52 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the
children of Peruda,
56 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the
children of Ami.
58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, werethree hundred ninety and
two.
59 And these werethey which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, andImmer: but
they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they wereof Israel:
60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and

two.
61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children
of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after
their name:
62 These sought their register amongthose that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not
found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there
stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
64 The whole congregation together wasforty and two thousand three hundred andthreescore,
65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there wereseven thousand three hundred
thirty and seven: and there wereamong them two hundred singing men and singing women.
66 Their horses wereseven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; theirasses, six thousand seven hundred and
twenty.
68 And someof the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which isat
Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand
drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
70 So the priests, and the Levites, and someof the people, and the singers, and the porters, and
the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel werein the cities, the
people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son
of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings
thereon, as it iswritten in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear wasupon them because of the people of those
countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, evenburnt offerings morning
and evening.
4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it iswritten, and offeredthe daily burnt offerings
by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
5 And afterward offeredthe continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set
feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill
offering unto the LORD.
6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD.
But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yetlaid.
7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil,
unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa,
according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second
month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of
their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto
Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the
work of the house of the LORD.
9 Then stood Jeshua withhis sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah,
together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, withtheir sons
and their brethren the Levites.
10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in
their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the
LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.