| 1 Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses, 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
Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by
genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty. 4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab,
Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males. 5 Of the
sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
6 And of the sons 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 a 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 a hundred and ten males. 13 And of the
sons of Adonikam, that were the last; and these are their names:
Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them threescore males. 14 And of
the sons 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 we
encamped 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, who were teachers. 17 And I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief
at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo,
and his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they
should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God. 18 And according
to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, 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 and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the
service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were
mentioned by name. 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava,
that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way
for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was
ashamed to ask 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 that seek him, for good; 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 entreated of us. 24 Then I set apart twelve
of the chiefs of the priests, even 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 for the house of our God, which the king, and
his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:
26 I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and
silver vessels a hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents; 27 and twenty
bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass,
precious as gold. 28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah, and
the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering
unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers. 29 Watch ye, and keep them, until
ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the
princes of the fathers' houses of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the
chambers of the house of Jehovah. 30 So the priests and the Levites
received 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 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 the lier-in-wait by the way. 32 And we came to
Jerusalem, and abode there three days. 33 And on the fourth day the silver
and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into 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, the Levite; 34 the whole by number and by weight: and all
the weight was written at that time. 35 The children of the captivity,
that were come out of exile, 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
Jehovah. 36 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's
satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people
and the house of God.
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