Verse 2
Nehemiah 11:2
Bible in Basic English
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And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יְבָרֲכ֖וּ הָ/עָ֑ם לְ/כֹל֙ הָֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים הַ/מִּֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ים לָ/שֶׁ֖בֶת בִּ/ירוּשָׁלִָֽם
English Translation
And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to dwell in Jerusalem.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 11 Context
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And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the...
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And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Je...
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Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the to...
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And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children...
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And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the so...
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All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.
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And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah...
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And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
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And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over th...
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Of the priests: Jedaiah, the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
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Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of...
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And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son...
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And his brothers, heads of families, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, the...
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And their brothers, men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son...
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And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son...
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And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside busin...
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And Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who had to give the first note o...
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All the Levites in the holy town were two hundred and eighty-four.
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In addition the door-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers who kept watch at the doors, were a...
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And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in hi...
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But the Nethinim were living in the Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.
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And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the so...
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For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their...
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And Pethahiah, the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, the son of Judah, was the king's servant...
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And for the daughter-towns with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba a...
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And in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet,
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And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,
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And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns,
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And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,
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Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So...
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And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its dau...
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At Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
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Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
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Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
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Lod and Ono, the valley of expert workers.
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And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.
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