These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒从前掳到巴比伦之犹大省的人，现在他们的子孙从被掳到之地回耶路撒冷和犹大，各归本城。

这些是从被掳之地上来的省民，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒把他们掳到巴比伦，他们重返耶路撒冷和犹大，各归本城。

这些是从被掳之地上来的省民，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒把他们掳到巴比伦，他们重返耶路撒冷和犹大，各归本城。

巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒从前把犹大省的人掳到巴比伦，这些人的子孙从流亡之地返回耶路撒冷和犹大后，各回本城。

这些犹大省的人，从前被巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒掳到巴比伦去，现在他们从被掳之地回到耶路撒冷和犹大，各归自己的城镇。

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒從前擄到巴比倫之猶大省的人，現在他們的子孫從被擄到之地回耶路撒冷和猶大，各歸本城。

這些是從被擄之地上來的省民，巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒把他們擄到巴比倫，他們重返耶路撒冷和猶大，各歸本城。

這些是從被擄之地上來的省民，巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒把他們擄到巴比倫，他們重返耶路撒冷和猶大，各歸本城。

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒從前把猶大省的人擄到巴比倫，這些人的子孫從流亡之地返回耶路撒冷和猶大後，各回本城。

這些猶大省的人，從前被巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒擄到巴比倫去，現在他們從被擄之地回到耶路撒冷和猶大，各歸自己的城鎮。

以下是猶大省的人，從前巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒使他們流亡到巴比倫去的；現在他們中間有人從流亡中之被擄地上來，返回耶路撒冷和猶大，各歸本城。

猶大州人、為巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒虜至巴比倫者、今自俘囚、返耶路撒冷及猶大、各歸其邑、

昔巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、擄以色列族、今所羅把伯、耶書亞、尼希米、西勑亞、哩來亞、木底改、必山、密八、必歪、哩宏、巴拿、率被虜之子孫、自巴比倫、歸猶大耶路撒冷、各赴故邑、其數臚列於左。

昔巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒所擄以色列民至巴比倫者、今其子孫自擄至之地、上歸耶路撒冷及猶大、居於猶大州者、各赴故邑、率其歸者、乃所羅巴伯、耶書亞、尼希米、西萊雅、利萊雅、末底改、必珊、密拔、比革瓦伊、利宏、巴拿、此旋歸之以色列民之人數、臚列於左、

Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon( they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to their own town,

Nebuchadnezzar had taken many Jews away from the land of Judah. He had forced them to go to Babylon as prisoners. Now they returned to Jerusalem and Judah. All of them went back to their own towns. Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.

Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

Here is the list of the Jewish exiles of the provinces who returned from their captivity. King Nebuchadnezzar had deported them to Babylon, but now they returned to Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah where they originally lived.

Now these are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken into exile to Babylon, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city.

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

Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

Now these[ are] the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

These are the people of the province who were going up, from the captives of the exile whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile in Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city.

Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;

These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men includedParosh’s descendants 2,172Shephatiah’s descendants 372Arah’s descendants 652Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,818Elam’s descendants 1,254Zattu’s descendants 845Zaccai’s descendants 760Binnui’s descendants 648Bebai’s descendants 628Azgad’s descendants 2,322Adonikam’s descendants 667Bigvai’s descendants 2,067Adin’s descendants 655Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah 98Hashum’s descendants 328Bezai’s descendants 324Hariph’s descendants 112Gibeon’s descendants 95Bethlehem’s and Netophah’s men 188Anathoth’s men 128Beth-azmaveth’s men 42Kiriath-jearim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s men 743Ramah’s and Geba’s men 621Michmas’s men 122Bethel’s and Ai’s men 123the other Nebo’s men 52the other Elam’s people 1,254Harim’s people 320Jericho’s people 345Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people 721Senaah’s people 3,930.The priests included Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973Immer’s descendants 1,052Pashhur’s descendants 1,247Harim’s descendants 1,017.The Levites included Jeshua’s descendants: of Kadmiel Hodevah’s descendants 74.The singers included Asaph’s descendants 148.The gatekeepers included Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants 138.The temple servants included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants,Keros’s descendants, Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Shalmai’s descendants,Hanan’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants,Gazzam’s descendants, Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,Besai’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants, Nephishesim’s descendants,Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,Bazlith’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,Neziah’s descendants, Hatipha’s descendants.The descendants of Solomon’s servants included Sotai’s descendants, Sophereth’s descendants, Perida’s descendants,Jaala’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392.The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their ancestral families and their lineage were Israelite:Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, and Nekoda’s descendants 642and from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai— who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and who bore their name.These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360not including their 7,337 male and female servants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.

He deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the best soldiers— ten thousand captives including all the craftsmen and metalsmiths. Except for the poorest people of the land, no one remained.Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. He took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.The king of Babylon brought captive into Babylon all seven thousand of the best soldiers and one thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths— all strong and fit for war.

Judah has gone into exile following affliction and harsh slavery; she lives among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places.

Then the common people took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.The king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land seventy-five hundred pounds of silver and seventy-five pounds of gold.Then King Neco of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt.Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.Also Nebuchadnezzar took some of the articles of the LORD’s temple to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.The rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim, the detestable actions he committed, and what was found against him, are written in the Book of Israel’s Kings. His son Jehoiachin became king in his place.Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight.In the spring Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon along with the valuable articles of the LORD’s temple. Then he made Jehoiachin’s brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah at the LORD’s command.He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear allegiance by God. He became obstinate and hardened his heart against returning to the LORD, the God of Israel.All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the LORD’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.But the LORD, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again, for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.He took everything to Babylon— all the articles of God’s temple, large and small, the treasures of the LORD’s temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials.Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.He deported those who escaped from the sword to Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the rise of the Persian kingdom.This fulfilled the word of the LORD through Jeremiah, and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until seventy years were fulfilled.In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD roused the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and also to put it in writing:This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The LORD, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a temple at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the LORD his God be with him.

Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies are at ease, for the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the adversary.

On the twenty-third day of the third month— that is, the month Sivan— the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai commanded for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

After he read it, he asked what province he was from. When he learned he was from Cilicia,

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.Zedekiah did what was evil in the LORD’s sight just as Jehoiakim had done.Because of the LORD’s anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he finally banished them from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered.The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and he also slaughtered the Judean commanders.Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.On the tenth day of the fifth month— which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, entered Jerusalem as the representative of the king of Babylon.He burned the LORD’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding Jerusalem.Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the LORD’s temple and the water carts and the bronze basin that were in the LORD’s temple, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.The captain of the guards took away the bowls, firepans, sprinkling basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls— whatever was gold or silver.As for the two pillars, the one basin, with the twelve bronze oxen under it, and the water carts that King Solomon had made for the LORD’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.One pillar was 27 feet tall, had a circumference of 18 feet, was hollow— four fingers thick—and had a bronze capital on top of it. One capital, encircled by bronze grating and pomegranates, stood 7½ feet high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates.Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the grating numbered one hundred.The captain of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and sixty men from the common people who were found within the city.Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;in his eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported 745 Jews. Altogether, 4,600 people were deported.On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life.As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

In the ninth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to it.In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.All the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar, Nebusarsechim the chief of staff, Nergal-sharezer the chief soothsayer, and all the rest of the officials of Babylon’s king.When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the fighting men saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the city gate between the two walls. They left along the route to the Arabah.However, the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They arrested him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, at Riblah in the land of Hamath. The king passed sentence on him there.At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all Judah’s nobles.Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported the rest of the people to Babylon— those who had remained in the city and those deserters who had defected to him along with the rest of the people who remained.However, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and he gave them vineyards and fields at that time.Speaking through Nebuzaradan, captain of the guards, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gave orders concerning Jeremiah:“ Take him and look after him. Don’t do him any harm, but do for him whatever he says.”Nebuzaradan, captain of the guards, Nebushazban the chief of staff, Nergal-sharezer the chief soothsayer, and all the captains of Babylon’s kinghad Jeremiah brought from the guard’s courtyard and turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he settled among his own people.Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah when he was confined in the guard’s courtyard:“ Go tell Ebed-melech the Cushite,‘ This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words for disaster and not for good against this city. They will take place before your eyes on that day.But I will rescue you on that day— this is the LORD’s declaration— and you will not be handed over to the men you dread.Indeed, I will certainly deliver you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in me, you will retain your life like the spoils of war. This is the LORD’s declaration.’”

These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus, who ruled 127 provinces from India to Cush.

The drinking was according to royal decree:“ There are no restrictions.” The king had ordered every wine steward in his household to serve whatever each person wanted.

Daughter Zion, your punishment is complete; he will not lengthen your exile. But he will punish your iniquity, Daughter Edom, and will expose your sins.

He held a feast in the third year of his reign for all his officials and staff, the army of Persia and Media, the nobles, and the officials from the provinces.

to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. He wanted to show off her beauty to the people and the officials, because she was very beautiful.

But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found with this record written on it:

The coastland will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they will find pasture there. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will return to them and restore their fortunes.

Let it be known to the king that we went to the house of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being built with cut stones, and its beams are being set in the walls. This work is being done diligently and succeeding through the people’s efforts.