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Blessed
be
the L
ORD
God of our fathers, which hath put
such a thing
as this in the king’s heart,
to beautify the house of the L
ORD
which
is
in Jerusalem:
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And hath extended mercy unto me before
the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as
the hand of the L
ORD
my God
was
upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go
up with me.
CHAPTER 8
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.
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Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons
of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
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.
4
Of the sons of Pahath- moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
5
Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
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Of the sons
also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
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And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah
the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
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And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the
son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
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Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel,
and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah,
and with him an hundred and threescore males.
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And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of
Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
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And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of
Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
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And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose
names
are
these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
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Of the sons
also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
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And I gathered them together to the river than 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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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And
Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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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.
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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.
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