Ezra 8:17-19

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁷ I sent them to Iddo, the leader serving in the place called Kasiphia, and I gave them a message to speak to Iddo and his brothers, the temple servants in the place called Kasiphia, so that they would bring us ministers for the house of our God.

¹⁸ So, since the good hand of our God was resting upon us, they brought us the following people: Sherebiah, a discerning man from the descendants of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, along with his sons and his brothers,^[a] eighteen men; ¹⁹ also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari and his brothers and their sons, twenty men;