1 Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town, 2 accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel: 3 the descendants of Parosh, 2,172; 4 the descendants of Shephatiah, 372; 5 the descendants of Arah, 775; 6 the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812; 7 the descendants of Elam, 1,254; 8 the descendants of Zattu, 945; 9 the descendants of Zaccai, 760; 10 the descendants of Bani, 642; 11 the descendants of Bebai, 623; 12 the descendants of Azgad, 1,222; 13 the descendants of Adonikam, 666; 14 the descendants of Bigvai, 2,056; 15 the descendants of Adin, 454; 16 the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah), 98; 17 the descendants of Bezai, 323; 18 the descendants of Jorah, 112; 19 the descendants of Hashum, 223; 20 the descendants of Gibbar, 95; 21 the men of Bethlehem, 123; 22 the men of Netophah, 56; 23 the men of Anathoth, 128; 24 the descendants of Azmaveth, 42; 25 the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743; 26 the men of Ramah and Geba, 621; 27 the men of Michmash, 122; 28 the men of Bethel and Ai, 223; 29 the descendants of Nebo, 52; 30 the descendants of Magbish, 156; 31 the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254; 32 the descendants of Harim, 320; 33 the men of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725; 34 the men of Jericho, 345; 35 and the descendants of Senaah, 3,630. 36 The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973; 37 the descendants of Immer, 1,052; 38 the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247; 39 and the descendants of Harim, 1,017. 40 The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah), 74. 41 The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128. 42 The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 139 in all. 43 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, 44 the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon, 45 the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Akkub, 46 the descendants of Hagab, the descendants of Shalmai, the descendants of Hanan, 47 the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar, the descendants of Reaiah, 48 the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam, 49 the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai, 50 the descendants of Asnah, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephusim, 51 the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur, 52 the descendants of Bazluth, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha, 53 the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah, 54 the descendants of Neziah, and the descendants of Hatipha. 55 The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Hassophereth, the descendants of Peruda, 56 the descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel, 57 the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants of Ami. 58 The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all. 59 The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel: 60 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 652 in all. 61 And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name). 62 These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. 63 The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim. 64 The whole assembly numbered 42,360, 65 in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers. 66 They had 736 horses, 245 mules, 67 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys. 68 When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site. 69 According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments. 70 So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
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People
Baanah
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Bigvai
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; also the name of a returning family.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Bilshan
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Hakkoz
Named as the grandfather of Meremoth; Hakkoz is also a priestly family whose members could not prove their descent after the return.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:61; Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:21
Jeshua
Levite who returned with Zerubbabel, supervised the temple work with Kadmiel, taught the people the Law, and led the confession and blessing. The list in Neh 10:9 names a Jeshua…
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:40; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 8:7
Kadmiel
Levite whose family returned and who, with Jeshua and the sons of Henadad, oversaw the temple builders; he later joined in the Levites’ prayer and the covenant.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:40; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 9:4
Mispar
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Nehemiah 7:7 gives Mispereth).
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Mordecai
Named among the leaders who returned with Zerubbabel; the text does not identify him with Esther’s Mordecai.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Nehemiah
One of the leaders who came back with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; not described further, and not necessarily the later governor.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Reelaiah
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Nehemiah 7:7 gives Raamiah).
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Rehum
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Nehemiah 7:7 gives Nehum).
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Seraiah
Named among those who came up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Nehemiah 7:7 gives the name as Azariah).
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7
Cross references (62)
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- 1 2 Kings 25:11; 2 Kings 24:14–16; Nehemiah 7:6–73; Esther 1:11; Jeremiah 52:1–34
- 2 Haggai 2:4; Nehemiah 7:7; Haggai 1:12; Haggai 1:14; Haggai 1:1
- 3 Ezra 8:3; Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 7:8
- 4 Nehemiah 7:9; Ezra 8:8
- 5 Nehemiah 7:10; Nehemiah 6:18
- 6 Nehemiah 7:11; Ezra 8:9; Ezra 10:14; Ezra 10:30; Ezra 8:4
- 7 Ezra 10:26; Ezra 2:31; Ezra 8:7; Nehemiah 7:12
- 8 Nehemiah 7:13; Ezra 10:27
- 9 Nehemiah 7:14
- 10 Nehemiah 7:15; Ezra 10:34
- 11 Ezra 10:28; Ezra 8:11; Nehemiah 7:16
- 12 Nehemiah 7:17; Ezra 8:12
- 13 Ezra 8:13; Nehemiah 7:18
- 14 Nehemiah 7:19; Ezra 8:14
- 15 Nehemiah 7:20; Ezra 8:6
- 16 Nehemiah 7:21
- 17 Nehemiah 7:23
- 18 Nehemiah 7:24
- 19 Nehemiah 7:22; Ezra 10:33
- 20 Nehemiah 7:25
- 21 1 Chronicles 2:50–52
- 22 2 Samuel 23:28; 1 Chronicles 2:54; Nehemiah 7:26; Jeremiah 40:8
- 23 Jeremiah 11:21; Jeremiah 1:1; Isaiah 10:30; Joshua 21:18; Nehemiah 7:27
- 24 Nehemiah 7:28
- 25 Joshua 9:17; Nehemiah 7:29
- 26 Nehemiah 7:30; Joshua 18:24–25
- 27 1 Samuel 13:5; Isaiah 10:28; Nehemiah 7:31; 1 Samuel 13:23
- 28 Genesis 12:8; Joshua 8:9; Joshua 8:17; Joshua 7:2; Nehemiah 7:33
- 29 Deuteronomy 32:49; Nehemiah 7:33; Jeremiah 48:22; Numbers 32:3; Isaiah 15:2
- 31 Ezra 2:7; Nehemiah 7:34
- 32 Ezra 10:31; Nehemiah 7:35
- 33 Nehemiah 7:37; 1 Chronicles 8:12; Nehemiah 11:34–35; Nehemiah 6:2
- 34 1 Kings 16:34; Nehemiah 7:36; 2 Chronicles 28:15
- 35 Nehemiah 7:38
- 36 Ezra 3:9; 1 Chronicles 24:7–18; 1 Chronicles 9:10; Nehemiah 7:39
- 37 1 Chronicles 24:14; Ezra 10:20; Nehemiah 7:40
- 38 1 Chronicles 9:12; Ezra 10:22; Nehemiah 7:41
- 39 1 Chronicles 24:8; Nehemiah 7:42; Ezra 10:21
- 40 Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 7:43
- 41 1 Chronicles 6:39; Nehemiah 7:44; 1 Chronicles 25:1–2; Nehemiah 11:17; 1 Chronicles 15:17
- 42 Nehemiah 7:45; 1 Chronicles 9:17; 1 Chronicles 26:1–19
- 43 1 Chronicles 9:2; Nehemiah 7:46–56; Nehemiah 10:28; Ezra 2:58
- 44 Nehemiah 7:47
- 45 Nehemiah 7:48
- 49 Nehemiah 7:51
- 50 Nehemiah 7:52
- 52 Nehemiah 7:54
- 53 Nehemiah 7:55
- 55 1 Kings 9:21; Nehemiah 7:57
- 56 Nehemiah 7:58
- 57 Nehemiah 7:59
- 58 1 Chronicles 9:2; 1 Kings 9:21; Joshua 9:23; Joshua 9:27; Joshua 9:21
- 59 Nehemiah 7:61
- 60 Nehemiah 7:62
- 61 2 Samuel 17:27; 1 Kings 2:7; Nehemiah 7:63–64; 2 Samuel 19:31–39
- 62 Numbers 3:10; Numbers 16:39–40; Leviticus 21:21–23; Numbers 18:7; Ezekiel 44:10–14
- 63 Numbers 27:21; Leviticus 2:10; Exodus 28:30; Leviticus 2:3; Leviticus 22:10
- 64 Jeremiah 23:3; Isaiah 10:20–22; Nehemiah 7:66–69; Ezra 9:8
- 65 2 Samuel 19:35; Ecclesiastes 2:8; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Isaiah 14:1–2; Psalm 68:25
- 68 2 Corinthians 9:7; 2 Corinthians 8:3; Exodus 35:5–19; Exodus 36:3; Exodus 35:29
- 69 Ezra 8:25–34; 1 Kings 7:51; 1 Chronicles 22:14; 1 Chronicles 26:20–28; Nehemiah 7:71–72
- 70 Nehemiah 7:73; Nehemiah 11:3–36; 1 Chronicles 11:2; 1 Chronicles 9:2; Ezra 6:16–17
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