Ezra 8:1–20

Genealogical Records

¹Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households and the genealogical records of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

²of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, ^aHattush;

³of the sons of Shecaniah who was of the sons of ^aParosh, Zechariah and with him 150 males who were in the genealogical records;

⁴of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah and 200 males with him;

⁵of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel and 300 males with him;

⁶and of the sons of ^aAdin, Ebed the son of Jonathan and 50 males with him;

⁷and of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah and 70 males with him;

⁸and of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael and 80 males with him;

⁹of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel and 218 males with him;

¹⁰and of the sons of Bani, Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah and 160 males with him;

¹¹and of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai and 28 males with him;

¹²and of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan and 110 males with him;

¹³and of the sons of Adonikam, the last ones, these being their names, Eliphelet, ¹Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and 60 males with them;

¹⁴and of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai, and ¹Zabbud, and 70 males with ²them.

Ezra Sends for Levites

¹⁵Now I gathered them at ^athe river that runs to Ahava, where we camped for three days. And I ¹observed the people and the priests, but I ^bdid not find any Levites there.

¹⁶So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, ¹chief men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, teachers.

¹⁷I sent them out to Iddo the ¹chief man at the place Casiphia; and I put words in their mouths to say to ²Iddo and his brothers, ^athe temple servants at the place Casiphia, that is, to bring ministers to us for the house of our God.

^18aSo, according to the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a ^bman of insight of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, 18 men;

¹⁹and Hashabiah and ¹Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, 20 men;

²⁰and 220 of ^athe temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, all of them designated by name.