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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These are the leaders of the families listed among those who left Babylon with me during the reign of King Artaxerxes: |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2From Phinehas's descendants: Gershom. From Ithamar's descendants: Daniel. From David's descendants: Hattush. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3From Shecaniah's descendants and from Parosh's descendants: Zechariah, along with 150 men whose genealogies had been certified. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4From Pahath-moab's descendants: Zerahiah's son Eliehoenai and 200 men with him. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5From Zattu's descendants: Jahaziel's son Shecaniah and 300 men with him. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6From Adin's descendants: Jonathan's son Ebed and 50 men with him. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7From Elam's descendants: Athaliah's son Jeshaiah and 70 men with him. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8From Shephatiah's descendants: Michael's son Zebadiah and 80 men with him. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9From Joab's descendants: Jehiel's son Obadiah and 218 men with him. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10From Bani's descendants: Josiphiah's son Shelomith and 160 men with him. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11From Bebai's descendants: Bebai's son Zechariah and 28 men with him. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12From Azgad's descendants: Hakkatan's son Johanan and 110 men with him. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13From Adonikam's later descendants: Eliphelet, Jeuel, Shemaiah, and 60 men with him. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14From Bigvai's descendants: Uthai, Zabbud, and 70 men with him. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I gathered them together at the river that flows toward Ahava, where we camped three days. Afterwards, I examined the people and the priests, but found no descendants of Levi there. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were senior leaders, as well as for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of discernment. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I told them to go see Iddo, a leader of Casiphia, and tell him and his relatives (administrators of Casiphia) to bring us men who could serve in the Temple of our God. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18By the grace of our God they brought back a discerning man from the descendants of Mahli, a descendant of Israel's son Levi, along with Sherebiah and eighteen of his sons and brothers; |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Hashabiah and Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari and 20 of his brothers and their sons; |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20220 descendants of the Temple Servants whom David and the leaders had appointed to serve the descendants of Levi, listed by name. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then I called for a fast there at the Ahava River so we could humble ourselves before our God and seek from him an appropriate way for us and our little ones to live, and how we should guard our personal wealth, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22because I was ashamed to ask the king for a contingent of soldiers and cavalry to protect us from enemies we might encounter on the way. After all, we had told the king, "The hand of our God seeks the good of all who seek him, but his power and anger are against everyone who forsakes him." |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23So we fasted and asked our God about this, and he listened to us. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Next I selected twelve of the chief priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them— |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25and divided between them the silver, the gold, the vessels, and the offering for the Temple of our God which the king had offered, along with his advisors, his senior officials, and all of Israel assembled there. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I divided among them 650 silver talents, silver utensils weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold, |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2720 gold basins weighing 1,000 darics each, and two vessels made of polished brass, as valuable as gold. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I told them, "You are consecrated to the LORD, and the vessels are also consecrated. The silver and the gold are a freely given offering to the LORD God of your ancestors. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Guard and protect them until you disperse them to the chief priests, the descendants of Levi, and to the family leaders of Israel at Jerusalem in the chambers of the Temple of the LORD." |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30So the priests and descendants of Levi took possession of the silver, the gold, and the vessels in order to bring them to Jerusalem, to the Temple of our God. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Then we left the Ahava River for Jerusalem on the twelfth day of the first month. Our God's protection was with us, and he delivered us from the enemy's power and from ambush along the way. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32We arrived in Jerusalem and remained there three days. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33On the fourth day the silver, the gold, and the vessels were distributed at the Temple of our God into the care of Uriah's son Meremoth the priest, Phinehas' son Eleazar, Jeshua's son Jozabad, and Binnui's son Noadiah, the descendants of Levi. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Distribution was according to inventory and weight, with all weights being recorded at that time. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35The descendants of those who had been taken into captivity and who had returned from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all of Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering—all of them burnt offerings to the LORD. |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Then they delivered copies of the king's orders to the king's officers, and governors on this side of the Euphrates River. The orders were in support of the people and God's Temple. |
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