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.
8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar;
Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
8:3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh;
Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males
a hundred and fifty.
8:4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah,
and with him two hundred males.
8:5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him
three hundred males.
8:6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with
him fifty males.
8:7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and
with him seventy males.
8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael,
and with him eighty males.
8:9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him
two hundred and eighteen males.
8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and
with him a hundred and sixty males.
8:11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and
with him twenty and eight males.
8:12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and
with him a hundred and ten males.
8:13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names [are] these,
Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.
8:14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with
them seventy males.
8:15 And I assembled them at the river that runneth to Ahava;
and there we abode in tents three days: and I viewed the
people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of
Levi.
8:16 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.
8:17 And I sent them with commandment to Iddo the chief at the
place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo,
[and] to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia,
that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our
God.
8:18 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;
8:19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari,
his brethren and their sons, twenty;
8:20 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.
8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river 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.
8:22 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 to 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.
8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was
entreated by us.
8:24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
8:25 And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the
king, and his counselors, and his lords, and all Israel [there]
present, had offered:
8:26 I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents
of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents, [and] of gold
a hundred talents;
8:27 Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two
vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
8:28 And I said to them, Ye [are] holy to the LORD; the vessels
[are] holy also; and the silver and the gold [are] a
free-will-offering to the LORD God of your fathers.
8:29 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.
8:30 So the priests and the Levites took the weight of the
silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring [them] to
Jerusalem to the house of our God.
8:31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day]
of the first month, to go to 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.
8:32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
8:33 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;
8:34 By number [and] by weight of every one: and all the weight
was written at that time.
8:35 [Also] the children of those that had been carried away,
who had come out of the captivity, offered burnt-offerings to
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 to the LORD.
8:36 And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's
lieutenants, and to the governors on this side of the river:
and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
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