2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 194
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39 Of the sons of Adonikam
the last, and these are the
names of them, Eliphelet,
Or, Shemaia,
Or, sixty Yeuel, and Shemaiah and
men.
with them seventy men:
40 Of the sons of Bigvai,
Uthai son of Istalcurus, and
with him seventy men:
41 And these I gathered
Or, to the
river called together to the river, called
Ahave.
Ez. 8.11. Theras, where we pitched our
Or, be tents three days, and then I
numbered
the people surveyed them.
and the 42 But when I had found
priests: but
found none there, none of the priests and
of the sons of
Levi. Levites,
Or, Ariel,
Or, 43 Then sent I unto Eliezar,
Shemaiah.
Iduel, Maasmas,
Or, these
mens names 44 And Elnathan, Shemaiah,
with their
Nathan, Elnathan,
generations Yarib,
are rightly
Zechariah,
and Meshullam
distinguished
Ezra 8:16.
principal men and learned.
45 And I bade them that
they should go unto Iddo the
captain, who was in the place
Or, Casiphia.
of the treasury:
46 And commanded them
that they should speak unto
Iddo, and to his brethren, and
to the treasurers in that place,
Or, the
Nethinims at to send us such men as might
the place of
Casiphia, Or, execute the Priest’s office in
Machli.
the house of Yahuah.
47 And by the mighty hand of
our Yahuah they brought unto
us skillful men of the sons of
Mahli, the son of Levi, the
Sherebia
Ezra 8:18. son of Israel, Sherebiah and
his sons and his brethren, who
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were eighteen.
48 And Asebia, and Hashabiah Or, also
Hashabia,
and Annunus and his brother and with him
of
Yeshaiah, of the descendants Yeshaiah
the sons of
with
of Hananiah, and their sons Merari
his brethren
Ezra 8:19.
were twenty men.
49 And of the servants of
the Temple whom David had
ordained, and the principal
men, for the service of the
Levites (to wit) the servants
of the Temple, two hundred
and twenty, the catalogue of
whose names were shown.
Ezra Proclaims a Fast
50 And there I vowed a fast
unto the young men before
our Yahuah, to desire of him
a prosperous journey, both for
us, and them that were with
Proclaimed,
us: for our children and for Heb.
substance.
the cattle:
51 For I was ashamed to
ask the king’s footmen, and
horsemen,
and
conduct
for safeguard against our
adversaries:
52 For we had said unto
the king, that the power of
Yahuah our Elohim, should
be with them that seek him, to
support them in all ways.
53 And again we besought
our Yahuah, as touching
these things, and found him
favorable unto us.
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