Ezra 8

These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king. ²Of the sons of ^aPhinehas; Gershom: of the sons of ^aIthamar; ^bDaniel: of the sons of David; ^cHattush. ³Of the sons of ^dShechaniah, of the sons of ^ePharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty. ⁴Of the sons of ^fPahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males. ⁵Of the sons of ^dShechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. ⁶Of the sons also of ^ffAdin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males. ⁷And of the sons of ^gElam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. ⁸And of the sons of ^hShephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males. ⁹Of the sons of ⁱJoab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males. ¹⁰And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males. ¹¹And of the sons of ^kBebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males. ¹²And of the sons of ^kAzgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males. ¹³And of the last sons of ^lAdonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males. ¹⁴Of the sons also of ^mBigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

¹⁵And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to ⁿAhava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the ^osons of Levi. ¹⁶Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for ^pZechariah, and for ^qMeshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding. ¹⁷And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God. ¹⁸And ^rby the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of ^sMahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and ^tSherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen; ¹⁹and ^uHashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of ^vMerari, his brethren and their sons, twenty; ²⁰also of the ^wNethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them ^xwere expressed by name. ²¹Then I ^yproclaimed a fast there, at the river ⁿAhava, that we might ^zafflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a ^aright way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. ²²For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, ^bThe hand of our God is upon all them ^cfor good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that ^dforsake him. ²³So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was ^eintreated of us.

²⁴Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, ^fSherebiah, ^gHashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, ²⁵and weighed unto them ^hthe silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the ⁱoffering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel there ^kpresent, had offered: ²⁶I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents; ²⁷also twenty ^lbasons of gold, of a thousand ^mdrams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold. ²⁸And I said unto them, Ye are ^mholy unto the Lord; the vessels are ⁿholy also; and the silver and the gold are ^ha freewill offering unto the Lord God of your fathers. ²⁹Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in ^othe chambers of the house of the Lord. ³⁰So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

³¹Then we departed from the river of ^pAhava on ^qthe twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and ^rthe hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way. ³²And ^swe came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days. ³³Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels ^tweighed in the house of our God by the hand of ^uMeremoth the son of ^xUriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was ^yJozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of ^zBinnui, Levites; ³⁴by number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time. ³⁵Also the children ^aof those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, ^btwelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the Lord. ³⁶And they delivered the king’s ^ccommissions unto the king’s ^dlieutenants, and to the ^egovernors on this side the river: and they ^ffurthered the people, and the house of God.

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