Chronicler's Ecclesiastical History and forty-eight. 45The 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, a hundred and thirty-eight. ple 46 The temple servants: The children of Ziha, the children of Hasupa, the Temchildren of Tabbaoth, 47the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the chil- slaves dren of Padon, 48the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Akkub, 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, 51the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, 52the children of Besai, the children of Asnah, the children of Menunim, the children of Nephsheisim, 53the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, 54the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 55the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, 56the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. of Solo vants 57The children of Solomon's servants: The children of Sotai, the children Clans of Sophereth, the children of Perida, 58the children of Jaala, the children of mon's Darkon, the children of Giddel, 59the children of Shephatiah, the children serof Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon." 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two. unable their ogy 61 And these were they who went up from Tel-melah and Tel-harsha: Clans Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses to esnor their descent, whether they were of Israel. 62The children of Delaiah, tablish the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two. geneal63 And of the priests: The children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name. 64These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found; therefore they were excluded from the priesthood, as unclean. 65And the governor commanded them not to eat of the most holy things, until a priest stood up with the Urim and Thummim. number and 66The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred Total and sixty,t 67besides their male and female slaves, of whom there were seven of thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and persons forty-five singing men and singing women. 68Their horses were seven animals hundred and thirty-six; their mules, two hundred and forty-five; 69their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty. P748 Supplied from Ezra 245. 4752 Supplied from Ezra 250. I Esdr. 530-32 has a still larger list than Neh. or Ezra. 759 I Esdr. 534 adds eight more names, but they cannot all be identified. 761 So I Esdr. 5%, which adds, whose leader was Cherub. * 766 I Esdr. 541 adds, perhaps preserving in full the original, Israelites twelve years old and over, apart from the male and female slaves. u 768 This verse is lacking in the standard text and was not reckoned by the Massorites as one of the verses of the book. It and 69, which resembles it, were probably later additions to the list. ▼ 769 Adding, their, from Ezra 267. the ites § 166. Population of Jerusalem and the Villages, Neh. 113-36 (cf. I Chr. 94-17) Chronicler's Ecclesiastical History Inhabi- Neh. 11 3Now these are the chiefs of the province who dwelt in JeruJerusalem; but in the cities of Judah every man dwelt in his possession in their salem: cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children Judah- of Solomon's servants. 4And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephathiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez. 6All the sons of Perez who dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant And of the sons of Zerah: Jeual and their clansmen, six hundred and ninety.X 5And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shelanite. The Benjamites The men.w 7And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah. a 8And his clansmen were mighty warriors, nine hundred and twenty-eight. 9And Joel the son of Zichri was appointed over them; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second in charge of the city. с 10Of the priests: Jedaiah, Joiarib,d Jachin, 11and Seraiah the son of Hilpriests kiah, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God, 12and their clansmen who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroboam, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, 13and his clansmen, chiefs of fathers' houses, two hundred and forty-two; and Amasai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, 14and his clansmen, mighty warriors, a hundred and twenty-eight; and Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim was appointed over them. The 15 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; 16and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outside work of the house of God; 17and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zikri,f the son of Asaph, who was the leader of the songs of praise, and Bakbukiah was the § 166 In this section the awkward literary style, the peculiar themes and the prominence of the Levites, the porters, the singers, the temple servants and the children of Solomon's servants, who figure in the Chronicler's other writings, are all in evidence. He has introduced practically the same list in I Chr. 94-17. It is probable that it largely originated with him. It is instructive chiefly as it illustrates the organization of the community which gathered about the temple in the days of the Chronicler and in the half-century immediately preceding. 116 Evidently this verse was transposed by mistake. plete. riors. 116 Filling in the obvious hiatus from I Chr. 95. 6. 117. 8 A comparison with the parallel in I Chr. 97. 9 indicates that the list is here incom b 118 So Luc. and the analogies 12, 13, 14 and I Chr. 96. e 118 The Heb., Gabbai Sallai, is due to the corruption of the Heb. words for mighty warCf. 14 d 1110 So I Chr. 910. e 1114 So Gk. f1117 So Gk, and Lat. Chronicler's Ecclesiastical History second among his clansmen; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. 18All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four. porters ap 19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their kinsmen, who kept The watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two. 21But the temple servants dwelt in Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants. 22 The one appointed over the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Officials Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the pointed sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God. 23 For there by the king was a commands from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as each day required. 24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezebel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, advised the kingh in all matters concerning the people. tants cities lages of 20 And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities Inhabiof Judah, each in his inheritance. 25 And as to the estates with their fields, the some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kiriath-arba and its dependent vil- other lages, in Dibon and its dependent villages, in Jekabzeel and its estates, 26in and vilJeshua, in Moladah, in Beth-pelet, 27in Hazar-shual, and in Beersheba Palesand its dependent villages, 29in En-rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth, 30Zanoah, tine Adullam and their estates, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its dependent villages. So they had their places of temporary abode from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom. 31The children of Benjamin also dwelt at Geba, Michmash, Aija, Bethel, and its dependent villages, 32at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, 33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, 34Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, 35Lod, and Ono, the valley of the craftsmen. 36And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin. § 167. Genealogy of the Priests and Levites, Neh. 121-20 Chronicler's Ecclesiastical History of the Neh. 12 1Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Heads Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua, Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2Ama- priestly riah, Malluch, Hattush, 3Shecaniah, Harim, Meremoth, 4Iddo, Ginne- clans thon, Abijah, Mijamin, Maaziah,' Bilgah, Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, k 1123 Probably a reference to the decree of Cyrus which comes from the Chronicler and is preserved in I Esdr. 455. Cf. § 144. h 1124 Heb., was at the king's hand. Cf. I Chr. 1817. i 1125 Cf. Lev. 2531. § 167 The difficulties of this section are baffling. In 1-6 the names, which have already been assigned by the Chronicler in 102-5 to the days of Ezra, are connected with the return under Zerubbabel. These again recur in 12-21 with many variations; but there they are assigned to the generation immediately following the return under Cyrus. In 10, 11 the Chronicler gives what appears to be an authentic list of the high-priests of the Persian period. It is probable that these verses and also the names of the Levites were derived from the Book of the Chronicles to which he refers in 23. Otherwise the rest of the section seems to be from the editor. i 123 Cf. 15 and 105. * 12 Cf. 16 and 106. 1 125 Cf. 108 Heb., Maadiah. 17 Moadiah. Heads of the levitical clans Highpriests in the Chronicler's Ecclesiastical History 7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their clansmen in the days of Jeshua. Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and 9 Also Mattaniah, he and his clansmen were in charge of the thanksgiving. Bakbukiah and Unno," their brethren, stood over against them in performing the duties of their office. q 10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib Persian begat Joiada, 11and Joiada begat Johanan,° and Johanan begat Jaddua. period 12 And in the days of Joiakim, the priests, the heads of fathers' houses: Heads of Seraiah, Meraiah, of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 13of Ezra, Meshullam; of of the Amariah, Jehohanan; 14of Malluch,P Jonathan; of Shecaniah, Joseph; 15of priestly fathers' Harim, Adna; of Meremoth, Helkai; 16of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Maadiah, Piltai; 18of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; 19and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; 20of Sallu,s Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 21of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel. houses Heads of the r 22 Of the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, levitical were recorded the heads of the fathers' houses; also the priests untilt the reign fathers' of Darius the Persian." 23The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were houses written in the Book of the Chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. 24And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Bennui, and Kadmiel with their clansmen Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah" over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the command of David the man of God, one division following another. 25 Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub, the porters, kept watch over the storerooms at the gates. 26These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe. m 127 This is found also in 6, but cf. 19-21. The second may be for Adajah, 112, I Chr. 912. 129 Wanting in Gk. and Luc. Also in the margin of the Heb. the second name is interpreted as a verb. 1211 So 22, 23 and Jos., Ant., XI, 7. Heb., Jonathan. P 1214 So 2. 4 124 So Gk. and Luc. and 3. According to 2 Hattush has here dropped out. 1215 So Luc. and 3. 1220 So 7. 1222 The verse is obscure. A slight correction supported by the Gk. and Lat. gives the above intelligible reading. u 1222 Darius II, 335-332 B.C., the last king of Persia. 122 Slightly correcting the text with the aid of Gk. and Luc. w 1224 According to 1117 the first three names of 25 in the Heb. are to be connected with 24. |