Add parallel Print Page Options

Lists of the Returned Exiles

Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:

Read full chapter

So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:

Read full chapter

16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.

Read full chapter

16 Don’t be deceived,(A) my dear brothers and sisters.(B)

Read full chapter

29 For this I toil and strive with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.(A)

Read full chapter

29 To this end I strenuously(A) contend(B) with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.(C)

Read full chapter

Shining as Lights in the World

12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,(A) 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Read full chapter

Do Everything Without Grumbling

12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,(A) 13 for it is God who works in you(B) to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.(C)

Read full chapter

Commendation of Titus

16 But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.

Read full chapter

Titus Sent to Receive the Collection

16 Thanks be to God,(A) who put into the heart(B) of Titus(C) the same concern I have for you.

Read full chapter

Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God,(A)

Read full chapter

Not that we are competent in ourselves(A) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.(B)

Read full chapter

10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.(A)

Read full chapter

10 But by the grace(A) of God I am what I am, and his grace to me(B) was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them(C)—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.(D)

Read full chapter

64 These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

Read full chapter

64 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Read full chapter

14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.(A)

Read full chapter

14 Remember(A) Tobiah and Sanballat,(B) my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet(C) Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets(D) have been trying to intimidate me.

Read full chapter

19 Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.(A)

Read full chapter

19 Remember(A) me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.

Read full chapter

27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem(A)

Read full chapter

27 Praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s heart(A) to bring honor(B) to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in this way

Read full chapter

62 These looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they were not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;(A)

Read full chapter

62 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood(A) as unclean.

Read full chapter

So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.(A) Now the first to live again in their possessions in their towns were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.(B)

Inhabitants of Jerusalem after the Exile

And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:(C) Uthai son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez son of Judah. And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons. Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kin, six hundred ninety. Of the Benjaminites: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah, Ibneiah son of Jeroham, Elah son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah; and their kindred according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these were heads of families according to their ancestral houses.

Read full chapter

All Israel(A) was listed in the genealogies recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. They were taken captive to Babylon(B) because of their unfaithfulness.(C)

The People in Jerusalem(D)

Now the first to resettle on their own property in their own towns(E) were some Israelites, priests, Levites and temple servants.(F)

Those from Judah, from Benjamin, and from Ephraim and Manasseh who lived in Jerusalem were:

Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.(G)

Of the Shelanites[a]:

Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.

Of the Zerahites:

Jeuel.

The people from Judah numbered 690.

Of the Benjamites:

Sallu son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah;

Ibneiah son of Jeroham; Elah son of Uzzi, the son of Mikri; and Meshullam son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah.

The people from Benjamin, as listed in their genealogy, numbered 956. All these men were heads of their families.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 9:5 See Num. 26:20; Hebrew Shilonites.