Nehemiah 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 towns. 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 towns of Judah every one lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants. ⁴And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiʹah the son of Uzziʹah, son of Zechariʹah, son of Amariʹah, son of Shephatiʹah, son of Mahalʹalel, of the sons of Perez; ⁵and Ma-aseiʹah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hoʹzeh, son of Hazaiʹah, son of Adaiʹah, son of Joiʹarib, son of Zechariʹah, son of the Shiloʹnite. ⁶All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.

⁷And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshulʹlam, son of Joʹed, son of Pedaiʹah, son of Kolaiʹah, son of Ma-aseiʹah, son of Ithʹi-el, son of Jeshaiʹah. ⁸And after him Gabbaʹi, Salʹlai, nine hundred and twenty-eight. ⁹Joʹel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuʹah was second over the city.

¹⁰Of the priests: Jedaiʹah the son of Joiʹarib, Jachin, ¹¹Seraiʹah the son of Hilkiʹah, son of Meshulʹlam, son of Zadok, son of Meraiʹoth, son of Ahiʹtub, ruler of the house of God, ¹²and their brethren who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiʹah the son of Jeroʹham, son of Pelaliʹah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariʹah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchiʹjah, ¹³and his brethren, heads of fathers’ houses, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashʹsai, the son of Azʹarel, son of Ahʹzai, son of Meshilʹlemoth, son of Immer, ¹⁴and their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred and twenty-eight; their overseer was Zabʹdiel the son of Haggedoʹlim.

¹⁵And of the Levites: Shemaiʹah the son of Hasshub, son of Azriʹkam, son of Hashabiʹah, son of Bunni; ¹⁶and Shabʹbethai and Joʹzabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God; ¹⁷and Mattaniʹah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiʹah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shamʹmua, son of Galal, son of Jeduʹthun. ¹⁸All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.

¹⁹The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren, who kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two. ²⁰And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one 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 Hashabiʹah, son of Mattaniʹah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God. ²³For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required. ²⁴And Pethahiʹah the son of Meshezʹabel, of the sons 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 Kirʹiath-arʹba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabʹzeel and its villages, ²⁶and in Jeshua and in Molaʹdah and Beth-peʹlet, ²⁷in Haʹzar-shuʹal, in Beer-sheba and its villages, ²⁸in Ziklag, in Mecoʹnah and its villages, ²⁹in En-rimʹmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth, ³⁰Zanoʹah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azeʹkah and its villages. So they encamped from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom. ³¹The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aiʹja, Bethel and its villages, ³²Anʹathoth, Nob, Ananiʹah, ³³Hazor, Ramah, Gitʹtaim, ³⁴Hadid, Zeboʹim, Nebalʹlat, ³⁵Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. ³⁶And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were joined to Benjamin.