let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.

The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua) 973

These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of Seraiah’s family, Meraiah; of Jeremiah’s, Hananiah;

The family heads of the Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua, as well as those of the priests, were recorded in the reign of Darius the Persian.

The family heads among the descendants of Levi up to the time of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the book of the annals.