So we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there for three days.

with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.

I had them assemble at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I observed that the people and the priests were present, but I found no Levites there.

Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.

All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

the descendants of Bezai: 323;

the descendants of Harim: 320;

the descendants of Shephatiah: 372;

the descendants of Bebai: 623;

the descendants of Hashum: 223;

The men of Bethlehem: 123;

the men of Jericho: 345;

the men of Bethel and Ai: 223;

the descendants of Senaah: 3,630.

the men of Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah and Beeroth: 743;

The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua): 973;

All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon: 392.

The entire group numbered 42,360,

from the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men;

not counting their male and female servants, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers