Ezra Sends for Levites

Ezra 8

15 I gathered them to the river that runs to z Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there a none of the sons of Levi. 16 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and b Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, 17 and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and 1 the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God. 18 And c by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of d Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18; 19 also e Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of f the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20; 20 g besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all h mentioned by name.

  1. Cross References
    Ezra 8:21
    Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
    Ezra 8:31
    Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
  2. Cross References
    Ezra 7:7
    And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
  3. Cross References
    Ezra 10:15
    Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
  4. Cross References
    Ezra 7:6
    This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
  5. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 6:19
    The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers.
  6. Cross References
    Nehemiah 12:24
    And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.
  7. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 6:1
    The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
    1 Chronicles 6:16
    The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
  8. Cross References
    Ezra 2:43
    The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth.
    Ezra 7:7
    And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 1:17
    Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named.
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