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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.
02 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons
of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David;
Hattush.
03 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.
04 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son
of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
05 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of
Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
06 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of
Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
07 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of
Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
08 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the
son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
09 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.
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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.
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