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^k 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.