Ezra 8:15-20

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Journey to Jerusalem

¹⁵ So I gathered them together at the canal^[a] that runs to Ahava, and we camped there three days. I looked over the people and the priests who were there, but I did not find any Levites among them. ¹⁶ So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were teachers. 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,^[b] eighteen men; ¹⁹ also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari and his brothers and their sons, twenty men; ²⁰ and from the temple servants whom David and the leaders appointed to the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were registered by name.