Ezra 8:1-28 ▼

1 These are now the principall fathers of them, and this is the register of them that went vp with me from Babylon, what time as king Artaxerxes raigned.

2 Of the children of Phinehes, Gersom: of the children of Ithamar, Daniel: of the children of Dauid, Hattus:

3 Of the children of Zechania, among the children of Pharos, Zachari & with him were numbred an hundred and fiftie men.

4 Of the childre of the captaine of Moab, Elioenai the sonne of Zerahia, & with him two hundred men.

5 Of the children of Zechania the sonne of Iahasiel, and with him three hundred men.

6 Of the children of Adin, Abed the sonne of Ionathan, and with hym fiftie men.

7 Of the children of Elam, Isai the sonne of Athalia, and with hym seuentie men.

8 Of the children of Saphatia, Zebadia the sonne of Michael, and with hym fourescore men.

9 Of the children of Ioab, Obadia the sonne of Iehiel, and with him two hundred and eyghteene men.

10 Of the children of Selomith, the sonne of Iosephia, and with hym an hundred and threescore men.

11 Of the children of Bebai, Zachari the sonne of Bebai, and with hym twentie and eyght men.

12 Of the children of Asgad, Iohanan the sonne of Hakatan, and with hym an hundred and ten men.

13 Of the children of Adonicam that were the last, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Iehiel, and Samaiah, & with them threescore men.

14 Of the children of Biguai, Uthai, and Zabud, & with them seuentie men.

15 And I gathered them together by the water that runneth towarde Ahaua, and there abode we three dayes: And I loked among the people and the priestes, and founde there none of the children of Leui.

16 Then sent I to Eliezer, to Ariel, Semeia, Elnachan, Iarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zacharia, and to Mesullam, the rulers, and to Ioiarib and Elnathan, which were men of vnderstanding.

17 And to those gaue I commaundement vnto Iddo the chiefest at Casphia, and I told them what they should say vnto Iddo & to his brethren the Nethinims at Casphia, that they shoulde cause the ministers of the house of our God to come vnto vs.

18 And through the good hande of our God vpon vs, they brought vs a very wyse man from among the children of Moholi the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel, and Sarabia with his sonnes and his brethren, euen eyghteene.

19 And Hasabia and with him Isai of the children of Merari, with his brethren, and their sonnes, twentie.

20 And of the Nethinims whom Dauid and the princes gaue to minister vnto the Leuites, two hundred and twentie of Nethininis: which al were named by name.

21 And euen there at the water beside Ahaua I proclaymed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seke of hym a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substaunce.

22 For I was ashamed to require of the king souldiers and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way: for we had spoken vnto the king, saying: The hande of our God is vpon all them that seke him in goodnesse, & his power and wrath is against all them that forsake hym.

23 So we fasted, and besought our God for this, and he was entreated of vs.

24 And I toke out twelue of the chiefe priestes, Sarabia, and Hasabia, and ten of their brethren with them,

25 And wayed them the siluer and golde, and vessels that were appoynted for the house of our God, whiche the king and his consaylers, and his lordes, and al Israel that were there at hand, had geuen together.

26 And I wayed vnto their hande sixe hundred and fiftie talentes of siluer, and in siluer vessels an hundred talentes, and in golde an hundred talentes:

27 Twentie basons of gold of a thousand drammes, and two costly vessels of good brasse, as cleare as golde.

28 And I sayde vnto them: Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, like as the vessels are holy also: and the gold and siluer are geuen of a good wil vnto the Lord God of your fathers.