1 And so these are the leaders of the families, with their genealogy, of those who ascended with me from Babylon, during the reign of king Artaxerxes. 2 From the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. From the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. From the sons of David, Hattush. 3 From the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Parosh, Zechariah, and one hundred fifty men were numbered with him. 4 From the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah, and two hundred men were with him. 5 From the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel, and three hundred men were with him. 6 From the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan, and fifty men were with him. 7 From the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah, the son of Athaliah, and seventy men were with him. 8 From the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael, and eighty men were with him. 9 From the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel, and two hundred eighteen men were with him. 10 From the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah, and one hundred sixty men were with him. 11 From the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and twenty-eight men were with him. 12 From the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan, and one hundred and ten men were with him. 13 From the sons of Adonikam, who were the last, and these were their names: Eliphelet, and Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and sixty men were with them. 14 From the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and seventy men were with them. 15 Now I gathered them together at the river that runs down to Ahava, and we stayed there for three days. And I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and I found none there. 16 And so I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Shemaiah, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders, and Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise. 17 And I sent them to Iddo, who is first within the place of Casiphia. And I placed in their mouth the words that they should speak to Iddo and his brothers, the temple servants, in the place of Casiphia, so that they would lead to us ministers for the house of our God. 18 And because the good hand of our God was over us, they led to us a very learned man from the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, with Sherebiah, and his sons, and his eighteen brothers, 19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah, of the sons of Merari, and his brothers, and his sons, numbering twenty. 20 And from the temple servants, whom David, and the leaders had provided for the ministry of the Levites, there were two hundred twenty temple servants. All these were called by their names. 21 And I proclaimed a fast in that place, beside the river Ahava, so that we might afflict ourselves in the sight of the Lord our God, and so that we might request of him the right way for us, and for our sons, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to petition the king for assistance and for horsemen, who would defend us from the enemy along the way. For we had said to the king: “The hand of our God is over all those who seek him in goodness. And his authority, and his strength and fury, is over all those who forsake him.” 23 And so we fasted and begged our God for this; and as a result, we prospered. 24 And I separated twelve from among the leaders of the priests: Sherebiah, and Hashabiah, and with them ten of their brothers. 25 And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold, and the vessels consecrated to the house of our God, which had been offered by the king, and by his counselors and his leaders, and by all those of Israel who had been found. 26 And I weighed out to their hands six hundred fifty talents of silver, and one hundred vessels of silver, and one hundred talents of gold, 27 and twenty gold bowls which had the weight of one thousand coins, and two vessels of the finest shining brass, as beautiful as gold. 28 And I said to them: “You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, with the silver and the gold, which has been offered freely to the Lord, the God of our fathers. 29 Watch and guard them, until you weigh them out before the leaders of the priests and the Levites, and the rulers of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasury of the house of the Lord.” 30 Then the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, so that they might carry these to Jerusalem, into the house of our God. 31 Therefore, we set out from the river Ahava, on the twelfth day of the first month, so that we might travel to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was over us, and he freed us from the hand of the enemy and of those who lay in ambush along the way. 32 And we arrived at Jerusalem, and we stayed there for three days. 33 Then, on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed out 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 were the Levites, Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui. 34 This was done according to the number and weight of everything; and every weight was written down at that time. 35 Moreover, those who came from the captivity, the sons of the transmigration, offered holocausts to the God of Israel: twelve calves on behalf of all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve he-goats for sin. All these were a holocaust to the Lord. 36 Then they gave the edicts of the king to the rulers who served in the sight of the king, and to the governors beyond the river, and they exalted the people and the house of God.
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Ezra 8 Catholic Public Domain Version
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Notes on this text (3)
- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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People & places in this chapter
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People
Ariel
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Athaliah
A man named Athaliah, named only as the father of Jeshaiah.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:7
Binnui
Daniel
Family head of the descendants of Ithamar who returned with Ezra.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:2
Ebed
Son of Jonathan and head of the descendants of Adin with 50 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:6
Eleazar
Son of a Phinehas (not further identified) who was with Meremoth when the silver, gold and articles were weighed into the temple.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:33
Eliehoenai
Son of Zerahiah and head of the descendants of Pahath-moab with 200 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:4
Eliezer
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Eliphelet
One of three named leaders of the later descendants of Adonikam, with 60 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:13
Elnathan
The name Elnathan appears three times in Ezra 8:16 (twice among the leaders, once among the teachers); this is the first.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Elnathan
The second Elnathan listed among the leaders in Ezra 8:16.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Elnathan
The third Elnathan in Ezra 8:16, listed with Joiarib as a teacher.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Gershom
Family head of the descendants of Phinehas who returned with Ezra.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:2
Hakkatan
Hashabiah
Levite of Merari’s descendants who, with Jeshaiah and 20 brothers and sons, came to Ezra; he was set apart to guard the silver and gold. The name recurs among Levites in Nehemiah.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:19; Ezra 8:24; Nehemiah 10:11
Hattush
Family head from the descendants of David who returned with Ezra.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:2
Iddo
Leader at Casiphia to whom Ezra sent a message asking for ministers for the house of God; he and his kinsmen, the temple servants, supplied them.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:17
Jahaziel
Jarib
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Jehiel
Jeshaiah
Son of Athaliah and head of the descendants of Elam with 70 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:7
Jeshaiah
Levite of Merari’s descendants who came to Ezra with Hashabiah and 20 brothers and sons.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:19
Johanan
Son of Hakkatan and head of the descendants of Azgad with 110 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:12
Joiarib
One of two teachers, with Elnathan, whom Ezra summoned along with the leaders.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Jonathan
Josiphiah
Jozabad
Levite present at the weighing of the temple silver and gold.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:33
Meremoth
Priest into whose hand Ezra’s party weighed the silver and gold and sacred articles at Jerusalem; he also repaired two sections of the wall.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:33; Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:21
Meshullam
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Michael
Nathan
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Noadiah
Levite present at the weighing of the temple silver and gold.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:33
Obadiah
Son of Jehiel and head of the descendants of Joab with 218 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:9
Shecaniah
Named in connection with Hattush, a descendant of David, in the list of returning family heads (the verse is read as Hattush of the descendants of Shecaniah).
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:3
Shecaniah
Son of Jahaziel and head of the descendants of Zattu with 300 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:5
Shelomith
Son of Josiphiah and head of the descendants of Bani with 160 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:10
Shemaiah
One of three named leaders of the later descendants of Adonikam, with 60 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:13
Shemaiah
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Sherebiah
A man of insight from the line of Mahli son of Levi, brought to Ezra with 18 sons and brothers; he was set apart to guard the silver and gold. A Levite of this name also teaches…
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:18; Ezra 8:24; Nehemiah 8:7
Uriah
Named as the father of Meremoth and the son of Hakkoz.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:33; Nehemiah 3:4
Uthai
Named with Zaccur as leaders of the descendants of Bigvai, with 70 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:14
Zaccur
Named with Uthai as leaders of the descendants of Bigvai, with 70 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:14
Zebadiah
Son of Michael and head of the descendants of Shephatiah with 80 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:8
Zechariah
One of the leaders Ezra summoned and sent to Iddo at Casiphia to find Levites.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:16
Zechariah
Son of Bebai and head of the descendants of Bebai with 28 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:11
Zechariah
Family head of the descendants of Parosh who returned with Ezra with 150 men.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 8:3
Zerahiah
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezra 7:7; 1 Chronicles 9:1; Ezra 7:13; Nehemiah 7:70–71; Ezra 1:5
- 2 1 Chronicles 3:22; 1 Chronicles 3:1; 1 Chronicles 24:1–6; 1 Chronicles 6:3–15
- 3 Ezra 2:3; Nehemiah 10:14; Nehemiah 7:8
- 4 Ezra 2:6; Nehemiah 7:11; Nehemiah 10:14
- 6 Nehemiah 10:16; Ezra 2:15; Nehemiah 7:20
- 7 Nehemiah 7:12; Ezra 2:31; Ezra 2:7; Nehemiah 7:34
- 8 Nehemiah 11:4; Ezra 2:4; Nehemiah 7:9
- 9 Ezra 2:6; Nehemiah 7:11
- 11 Ezra 10:28; Ezra 2:11; Nehemiah 7:16
- 12 Ezra 2:12; Nehemiah 7:17
- 13 Ezra 2:13; Nehemiah 7:18
- 14 Nehemiah 10:12; Ezra 2:14; Nehemiah 7:19
- 15 Ezra 8:21; Ezra 8:31; Ezra 7:7; Ezra 8:2; Psalm 137:1
- 16 1 Chronicles 12:32; Proverbs 28:2; 1 Chronicles 26:14; Daniel 2:21; 1 Kings 3:11
- 17 Ezra 2:43; 1 Chronicles 23:3–6; Ezra 7:7; Numbers 8:22–26; 1 Chronicles 23:26–32
- 18 Ezra 7:28; Nehemiah 2:8; Jeremiah 3:15; 1 Chronicles 6:19; Ezra 7:6
- 19 1 Chronicles 6:16; 1 Chronicles 6:1; Nehemiah 3:17; Nehemiah 10:11; 1 Chronicles 6:19
- 20 Ezra 2:43; Ezra 7:7; 1 Chronicles 9:2; Philippians 4:3; Ezra 8:17
- 21 2 Chronicles 20:3; Joel 1:14; Isaiah 30:21; 1 Samuel 7:6; Jonah 3:5
- 22 1 Peter 3:12; Psalm 33:18–19; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Psalm 34:15–16; Lamentations 3:25
- 23 Jeremiah 29:12–13; Matthew 7:7–8; Ezra 8:31; 2 Chronicles 33:12–13; Deuteronomy 4:29
- 24 Ezra 8:18–19
- 25 Ezra 7:14–16; Ezra 8:33; Ezra 1:8; 2 Corinthians 8:20–21; Philippians 4:8
- 26 Ezra 1:9–11
- 27 Lamentations 4:2
- 28 Leviticus 22:2–3; Leviticus 21:6–8; Numbers 4:4–15; Ezra 1:7–11; Isaiah 52:11
- 29 Ezra 8:33–34; Acts 20:31; Mark 13:34–35; 1 Chronicles 26:20–26; 2 Timothy 4:5
- 30 1 Chronicles 29:2–3; Psalm 122:9; Isaiah 60:13; Ezra 8:22
- 31 Ezra 8:21–22; Ezra 8:15; Ezra 7:9; Isaiah 41:10–14; Acts 26:22
- 32 Nehemiah 2:11; Ezra 7:8–9
- 33 Nehemiah 3:4; Ezra 8:30; Nehemiah 3:21; Nehemiah 10:9; 1 Chronicles 28:14–18
- 35 Ezra 6:17; Psalm 116:12–19; Numbers 7:27; 2 Chronicles 29:31–32; Ezra 2:1
- 36 Ezra 7:21–24; Ezra 6:13; Ezra 5:6–17; Acts 18:27; Revelation 12:16
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