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Chapter 8
Ezra AKJV 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.
Ezra AKJV 8:2  Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
Ezra AKJV 8:3  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.
Ezra AKJV 8:4  Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Ezra AKJV 8:5  Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
Ezra AKJV 8:6  Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra AKJV 8:7  And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
Ezra AKJV 8:8  And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
Ezra AKJV 8:9  Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
Ezra AKJV 8:10  And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and three score males.
Ezra AKJV 8:11  And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
Ezra AKJV 8:12  And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
Ezra AKJV 8:13  And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them three score males.
Ezra AKJV 8:14  Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
Ezra AKJV 8:15  And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there stayed we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra AKJV 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.
Ezra AKJV 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 brothers the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Ezra AKJV 8:18  And by the good hand of our God on 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 brothers, eighteen;
Ezra AKJV 8:19  And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
Ezra AKJV 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.
Ezra AKJV 8:21  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.
Ezra AKJV 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 on all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Ezra AKJV 8:23  So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
Ezra AKJV 8:24  Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
Ezra AKJV 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 counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Ezra AKJV 8:26  I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
Ezra AKJV 8:27  Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Ezra AKJV 8:28  And I said to them, You are holy to the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD God of your fathers.
Ezra AKJV 8:29  Watch you, and keep them, until you 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.
Ezra AKJV 8:30  So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
Ezra AKJV 8:31  Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
Ezra AKJV 8:32  And we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
Ezra AKJV 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;
Ezra AKJV 8:34  By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
Ezra AKJV 8:35  Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were 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.
Ezra AKJV 8:36  And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.