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The Leaders Who Returned

28 These are the leaders, according to their ancestral houses and their groups, who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:(A) 29 Of the descendants of Phineas, Gershom. Of the descendants of Ithamar, Gamael. Of the descendants of David, Hattush son of Shecaniah. 30 Of the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah and with him a hundred fifty men enrolled. 31 Of the descendants of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred men. 32 Of the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah son of Jahaziel and with him three hundred men. Of the descendants of Adin, Obed son of Jonathan and with him two hundred fifty men. 33 Of the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Gotholiah and with him seventy men. 34 Of the descendants of Shephatiah, Zeraiah son of Michael and with him seventy men. 35 Of the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel and with him two hundred twelve men. 36 Of the descendants of Bani, Shelomith son of Josiphiah and with him a hundred sixty men. 37 Of the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai and with him twenty-eight men. 38 Of the descendants of Azgad, Johanan son of Hakkatan and with him a hundred ten men. 39 Of the descendants of Adonikam, the last ones, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them seventy men. 40 Of the descendants of Bigvai, Uthai son of Istalcurus and with him seventy men.

41 I assembled them at the river called Theras, and we encamped there three days, and I inspected them.(B) 42 When I found there none of the descendants of the priests or of the Levites, 43 I sent word to Eleazar, Iduel, Maasmas, Elnathan, Shemaiah, Jarib, Nathan, Elnathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders and men of understanding; 44 I told them to go to Iddo, who was the leading man at the place of the treasury, 45 and ordered them to tell Iddo and his kindred and the treasurers at that place to send us men to serve as priests in the house of our Lord. 46 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought us competent men of the descendants of Mahli son of Levi, son of Israel, namely, Sherebiah with his descendants and kinsmen, eighteen; 47 also Hashabiah and Annunus and his brother Jeshaiah, of the descendants of Hananiah, and their descendants, twenty men; 48 and of the temple servants whom David and the leaders had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants; the list of all their names was reported.(C)

Ezra Proclaims a Fast

49 There I proclaimed a fast for the young men before our Lord,

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