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.
the chief
Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and …
1 Chronicles 9:34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; …
1 Chronicles 24:31 These likewise cast lots over against their brothers the sons of …
1 Chronicles 26:32 And his brothers, men of valor, were two thousand and seven hundred …
2 Chronicles 26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of …
Nehemiah 7:70,71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha …
genealogy
Ezra 2:62 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, …
1 Chronicles 4:33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities, to …
1 Chronicles 9:1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were …
them that went up
Ezra 7:7,13 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, …
Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
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.
Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
the river that runneth (Ahava is supposed to be the river Adiava, which, with the Diava, is said by Ammianus to have given name to Adiabene, a province of Assyria, through which they flowed into the Tigris. These rivers were also called respectively, Anzabas and Zabas, the Caprus and Lycus of Ptolemy; the former of which he places, at its source, in long.
Ezra 8:6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra 8:36 And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's lieutenants, …
Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we …
Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in …
Ezekiel 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelled by …
Acts 16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where …
Ahava
Ezra 8:21,31 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might …
abode. Heb. pitched. and found
Ezra 8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: …
Ezra 7:7,24 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, …
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.
Shemaiah
Ezra 8:13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, …
Ezra 10:21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and …
Nathan
Ezra 10:39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Ezra 10:11 Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and …
chief men
Ezra 8:1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy …
men of understanding
Ezra 8:18 And by the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of understanding, …
1 Kings 3:11 And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have …
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding …
1 Chronicles 26:14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, …
2 Chronicles 2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made …
Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding …
Proverbs 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof…
Daniel 2:21 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets …
2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, …
And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
Casiphia (Casiphia is supposed to denote the Caspian mountains, between Media and Hyrcania, near the Caspian Sea. It is evident, from a comparison of ch.
Ezra 7:9 For on the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, …
I told them. Heb. I put words in their mouth
Exodus 4:15 And you shall speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will …
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like to …
2 Samuel 14:3,19 And come to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put …
Jeremiah 1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD …
Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore thus said the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you …
the Nethinims
Ezra 2:43,58 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the …
Ezra 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, …
ministers
Numbers 8:22-26 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle …
Numbers 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among …
1 Chronicles 23:3-6,26-32 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: …
Titus 1:5 For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order …
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;
by the good hand
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen …
Ezra 7:28 And has extended mercy to me before the king, and his counsellors, …
Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest…
Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
a man of understanding. See on ver.
Ezra 8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, …
Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom is an house built; and by understanding it is established:
Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed …
Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired …
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be …
Mahli
Numbers 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi…
1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families …
Sherebiah
Ezra 8:24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, …
Nehemiah 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah…
Nehemiah 9:4,5 Then stood up on the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, …
Nehemiah 10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Nehemiah 12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the …
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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.
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.
I proclaimed
Judges 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and …
1 Samuel 7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured …
2 Chronicles 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed …
Joel 1:14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and …
Joel 2:12-18 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your …
Jonah 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and …
afflict ourselves
Leviticus 16:29,31 And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh …
Leviticus 23:29 For whatever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same …
Isaiah 58:3,5 Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted …
Jeremiah 31:8,9 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them …
Jeremiah 50:4,5 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the children of Israel …
to seek
Psalm 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make …
Psalm 107:2-8 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the …
Psalm 143:8-10 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you …
Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Isaiah 30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, …
Isaiah 35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called …
Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead …
Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun …
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in …
for our little ones
Numbers 14:3,31 And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, …
Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength …
Mark 10:13-16 And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: …
Acts 2:39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that …
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 unto 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.
I was ashamed
1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these …
2 Corinthians 7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; …
The hand
Ezra 7:6,9,28 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the …
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…
Psalm 33:18,19 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on them that fear him, on them that …
Psalm 34:15,22 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry…
Isaiah 3:10,11 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they …
Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love …
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are …
his power and his wrath
Joshua 23:16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which …
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …
Psalm 21:8,9 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall …
Psalm 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the …
Psalm 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so …
Zephaniah 1:2-6 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, said the LORD…
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are …
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
we fasted
Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel …
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and …
Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, …
Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed …
Acts 10:30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; …
besought
Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …
Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty …
Jeremiah 50:4,5 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the children of Israel …
and he was intreated
Ezra 8:31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the …
Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find …
1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered …
2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …
Psalm 66:18-20 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me…
Isaiah 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they …
Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …
Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
fine copper. Heb. yellow, or shining brass (The Syriac renders, nechosho korinthyo tovo, 'good Corinthian brass;' so called from the brass found after the burning of Corinth by Lucius Mummius, which was, as is generally supposed, brass, copper, silver, and gold, melted together. Sir J. Chardin, however, in a MS. note, cited by Harmer, mentioned a factitious metal used in the East, and highly esteemed there, which might probably be of an origin as ancient as Ezra. He says, 'I have heard some Dutch gentlemen speak of a metal in the island of Sumatra, and among the Macassars, much more esteemed than gold, which royal personages alone are privileged to wear. It is a mixture, if I remember right, of gold and steel, or copper and steel.' He afterwards added, 'calmbac is the name of this metal, which is composed of gold and copper.')
precious. Heb. desirable
Lamentations 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they …
And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
Ye are holy
Leviticus 21:6-8 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their …
Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your …
Isaiah 52:11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; …
the vessels
Ezra 1:7-11 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the …
Leviticus 22:2,3 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from …
Numbers 4:4-15,19,20 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle …
Numbers 7:13,84-88 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an …
1 Kings 7:48-51 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the …
1 Chronicles 23:28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service …
2 Chronicles 24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money …
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.
So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.
Then we departed from the river of 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 of such as lay in wait by the way.
the river of Ahava
Ezra 8:15,21 And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and …
the hand
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen …
Ezra 7:9,28 For on the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, …
Job 5:19-24 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no …
Psalm 91:9-14 Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most …
Isaiah 41:10-14 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing …
and he delivered (Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four months in completing, encumbered with families and possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others, that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the king, 'that the hand of God was upon all them for good that seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them that forsook him,' (ver.
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen …
And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
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;
weighed
Ezra 8:26,30 I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, …
1 Chronicles 28:14-18 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments …
2 Corinthians 8:20,21 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which …
Meremoth
Nehemiah 10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Uriah
Nehemiah 3:4 And next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of …
Urijah. Jozabad
Nehemiah 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah…
Binnui
Nehemiah 10:9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons …
By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, 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 the LORD.
offered burnt
Leviticus 1:1-17 And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle …
2 Chronicles 29:31,32 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated yourselves …
Psalm 66:10-15 For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried…
Psalm 116:12-19 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits toward me…
Luke 1:74,75 That he would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand …
twelve bullocks
Ezra 6:17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, …
Numbers 7:27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
the king's commissions
Ezra 7:21-24 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers …
lieutenants
Ezra 4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, …
Ezra 5:6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, …
they furthered
Ezra 6:13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and …
Isaiah 56:6,7 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, …
Acts 18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brothers wrote, …
Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and …
