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Ezra 8 |
1 |
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. |
2 |
Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar;
Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush. |
3 |
Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah:
and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred
and fifty. |
4 |
Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and
with him two hundred males. |
5 |
Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him
three hundred males. |
6 |
Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with
him fifty males. |
7 |
And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and
with him seventy males. |
8 |
And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael,
and with him fourscore males. |
9 |
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him
two hundred and eighteen males. |
10 |
And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with
him an hundred and threescore males. |
11 |
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and
with him twenty and eight males. |
12 |
And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and
with him an hundred and ten males. |
13 |
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these,
Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore
males. |
14 |
Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them
seventy males. |
15 |
And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to
Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the
people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of
Levi. |
16 |
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for
Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and
for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib,
and for Elnathan, men of understanding. |
17 |
And 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. |
18 |
And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man
of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son
of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren,
eighteen; |
19 |
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari,
his brethren and their sons, twenty; |
20 |
Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had
appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty
Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name. |
21 |
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that
we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right
way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our
substance. |
22 |
For 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, The hand of our God is upon all
them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is
against all them that forsake him. |
23 |
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was
intreated of us. |
24 |
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, |
25 |
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the
king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there
present, had offered: |
26 |
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents
of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an
hundred talents; |
27 |
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two
vessels of fine copper, precious as gold. |
28 |
And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels
are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill
offering unto the LORD God of your fathers. |
29 |
Watch 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 the chambers of the house of the
LORD. |
30 |
So 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. |
31 |
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day
of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the 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. |
32 |
And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days. |
33 |
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the
vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth
the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of
Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and
Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; |
34 |
By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was
written at that time. |
35 |
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which
were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the
God of Israel, twelve 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. |
36 |
And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's
lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and
they furthered the people, and the house of God. |