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/Chapter 11

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Nehemiah

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Chapter 11

¹Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine-tenths remained in the other cities. ²And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. ³These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived on his property in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants. ⁴And in Jerusalem lived some of the people of Judah and some of the people of Benjamin. Of the people of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the descendants of Perez; ⁵and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite. ⁶All the descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 valiant men. ⁷And these are the people of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah, ⁸and after him Gabbai, Sallai: 928. ⁹Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city. ¹⁰Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin, ¹¹Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, officer of the house of God, ¹²and their kinsmen who did work for the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, ¹³and his kinsmen, heads of fathers' houses, 242; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer, ¹⁴and their kinsmen, mighty warriors, 128; their overseer was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim. ¹⁵And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni; ¹⁶and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God; ¹⁷and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks; and Bakbukiah, the second among his kinsmen; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun. ¹⁸All the Levites in the holy city were 284. ¹⁹The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their kinsmen, who kept watch at the gates, were 172. ²⁰And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance. ²¹But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants. ²²The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the descendants of Asaph, the singers, over the business of the house of God. ²³For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as was required day by day. ²⁴And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people. ²⁵And as for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages, ²⁶and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet, ²⁷in Hazar-shual, and in Beersheba and its villages, ²⁸in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its villages, ²⁹in En-rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth, ³⁰Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom. ³¹The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages, ³²Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, ³³Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, ³⁴Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, ³⁵Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. ³⁶And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were assigned to Benjamin.