Ezra 8:1–20

¹These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Ar-ta-xerxes the king: ²Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush, ³of the sons of Shecaniah. Of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered one hundred and fifty men. ⁴Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eli-e-ho-enai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred men. ⁵Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred men. ⁶Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty men. ⁷Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy men. ⁸Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty men. ⁹Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen men. ¹⁰Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and sixty men. ¹¹Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight men. ¹²Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten men. ¹³Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty men. ¹⁴Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them seventy men.

¹⁵I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we encamped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. ¹⁶Then I sent for Eliezer, Ari-el, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, ¹⁷and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brethren the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God. ¹⁸And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, eighteen; ¹⁹also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, twenty; ²⁰besides two hundred and twenty of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.