Ezra 8:1-20

1These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

2of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;

3of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and registered with him were one hundred and fifty males;

4of the sons of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males;

5of the sons of Shechaniah, Ben-Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males;

6of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males;

7of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males;

8of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty males;

9of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males;

10of the sons of Shelomith, Ben-Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males;

11of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males;

12of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him one hundred and ten males;

13of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these—Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah—and with them sixty males;

14also of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

15Now I gathered them by the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there.

16Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leaders; also for Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding.

17And I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo and his brethren the Nethinim at the place Casiphia—that they should bring us servants for the house of our God.

18Then, 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, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and brothers, eighteen men;

19and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty men;

20also of the Nethinim, whom David and the leaders had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim. All of them were designated by name.