Ezra 2

New King James Version

The Captives Who Returned to Jerusalem^(A)

2 Now ^(B)these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, ^(C)whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city.

²Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, ^[a]Seraiah, ^[b]Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, ^[c]Mispar, Bigvai, ^[d]Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: ³the people of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; ⁴the people of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two; ⁵the people of Arah, ^(D)seven hundred and seventy-five; ⁶the people of ^(E)Pahath-Moab, of the people of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve; ⁷the people of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; ⁸the people of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five; ⁹the people of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty; ¹⁰the people of ^[e]Bani, six hundred and forty-two; ¹¹the people of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three; ¹²the people of Azgad, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two; ¹³the people of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six; ¹⁴the people of Bigvai, two thousand and fifty-six; ¹⁵the people of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four; ¹⁶the people of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety-eight; ¹⁷the people of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three; ¹⁸the people of ^[f]Jorah, one hundred and twelve; ¹⁹the people of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three; ²⁰the people of ^[g]Gibbar, ninety-five; ²¹the people of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three; ²²the men of Netophah, fifty-six; ²³the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; ²⁴the people of ^[h]Azmaveth, forty-two; ²⁵the people of ^[i]Kirjath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three; ²⁶the people of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one; ²⁷the men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two; ²⁸the men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three; ²⁹the people of Nebo, fifty-two; ³⁰the people of Magbish, one hundred and fifty-six; ³¹the people of the other ^(F)Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; ³²the people of Harim, three hundred and twenty; ³³the people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five; ³⁴the people of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five; ³⁵the people of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.

³⁶The priests: the sons of ^(G)Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; ³⁷the sons of ^(H)Immer, one thousand and fifty-two; ³⁸the sons of ^(I)Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; ³⁹the sons of ^(J)Harim, one thousand and seventeen.

⁴⁰The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of ^[j]Hodaviah, seventy-four.

⁴¹The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.

⁴²The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.

⁴³^(K)The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, ⁴⁴the sons of Keros, the sons of ^[k]Siaha, the sons of Padon, ⁴⁵the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, ⁴⁶the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shalmai, the sons of Hanan, ⁴⁷the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, ⁴⁸the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam, ⁴⁹the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, ⁵⁰the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of ^[l]Nephusim, ⁵¹the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, ⁵²the sons of ^[m]Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, ⁵³the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah, ⁵⁴the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.

⁵⁵The sons of ^(L)Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of ^(M)Sophereth, the sons of ^[n]Peruda, ⁵⁶the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, ⁵⁷the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, and the sons of ^[o]Ami. ⁵⁸All the ^(N)Nethinim and the children of ^(O)Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

⁵⁹And these were the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, ^[p]Addan, and Immer; but they could not ^[q]identify their father’s house or their ^[r]genealogy, whether they were of Israel: ⁶⁰the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two; ⁶¹and of the sons of the priests: the sons of ^(P)Habaiah, the sons of ^[s]Koz, and the sons of ^(Q)Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name. ⁶²These sought their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found; ^(R)therefore they were excluded from the priesthood as defiled. ⁶³And the ^[t]governor said to them that they ^(S)should not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the ^(T)Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁴^(U)The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, ⁶⁵besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred men and women singers. ⁶⁶Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five, ⁶⁷their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and their donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

⁶⁸^(V)Some of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to erect it in its place: ⁶⁹According to their ability, they gave to the ^(W)treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly garments.

⁷⁰^(X)So the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Footnotes

Ezra 2:2 Azariah, Neh. 7:7
Ezra 2:2 Raamiah, Neh. 7:7
Ezra 2:2 Mispereth, Neh. 7:7
Ezra 2:2 Nehum, Neh. 7:7
Ezra 2:10 Binnui, Neh. 7:15
Ezra 2:18 Hariph, Neh. 7:24
Ezra 2:20 Gibeon, Neh. 7:25
Ezra 2:24 Beth Azmaveth, Neh. 7:28
Ezra 2:25 Kirjath Jearim, Neh. 7:29
Ezra 2:40 Judah, Ezra 3:9, or Hodevah, Neh. 7:43
Ezra 2:44 Sia, Neh. 7:47
Ezra 2:50 Nephishesim, Neh. 7:52
Ezra 2:52 Bazlith, Neh. 7:54
Ezra 2:55 Perida, Neh. 7:57
Ezra 2:57 Amon, Neh. 7:59
Ezra 2:59 Or Addon, Neh. 7:61
Ezra 2:59 Lit. tell
Ezra 2:59 Lit. seed
Ezra 2:61 Or Hakkoz
Ezra 2:63 Heb. Tirshatha

Romans 4

New King James Version

Abraham Justified by Faith^(A)

4 What then shall we say that ^(B)Abraham our ^(C)father^[a] has found according to the flesh? ²For if Abraham was ^(D)justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. ³For what does the Scripture say? ^(E)“Abraham believed God, and it was ^[b]accounted to him for righteousness.” ⁴Now ^(F)to him who works, the wages are not counted ^[c]as grace but as debt.

David Celebrates the Same Truth

⁵But to him who ^(G)does not work but believes on Him who justifies ^(H)the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, ⁶just as David also ^(I)describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

⁷“Blessed^(J) are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered;
⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

Abraham Justified Before Circumcision

⁹Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. ¹¹And ^(K)he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that ^(L)he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, ¹²and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father ^(M)Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

The Promise Granted Through Faith

¹³For the promise that he would be the ^(N)heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴For ^(O)if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, ¹⁵because ^(P)the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

¹⁶Therefore it is of faith that it might be ^(Q)according to grace, ^(R)so that the promise might be ^[d]sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, ^(S)who is the father of us all ¹⁷(as it is written, ^(T)“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, ^(U)who gives life to the dead and calls those ^(V)things which do not exist as though they did; ¹⁸who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, ^(W)“So shall your descendants be.” ¹⁹And not being weak in faith, ^(X)he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), ^(Y)and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. ²⁰He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹and being fully convinced that what He had promised ^(Z)He was also able to perform. ²²And therefore ^(AA)“it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

²³Now ^(AB)it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, ²⁴but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe ^(AC)in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵^(AD)who was delivered up because of our offenses, and ^(AE)was raised because of our justification.