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Ezra Chapter 8

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Ezra

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The people of Israel returned to Jerusalem and began to rebuild the temple and its surrounding walls. They also gathered to write down the law and to organize the community, showing a desire to follow God's commandments.

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(1) These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
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Ezra 1:5I Chronicles 9:34I Chronicles 24:31I Chronicles 26:32II Chronicles 26:12Nehemiah 7:70Nehemiah 7:71Ezra 2:62I Chronicles 4:33I Chronicles 9:1Ezra 7:7Ezra 7:13

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II Kings 24:12

(2) Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
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I Chronicles 6:3I Chronicles 6:4I Chronicles 6:5I Chronicles 6:6I Chronicles 6:7I Chronicles 6:8I Chronicles 6:9I Chronicles 6:10I Chronicles 6:11I Chronicles 6:12I Chronicles 6:13I Chronicles 6:14

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Daniel 5:13Daniel 6:20

(3) Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
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Ezra 2:3Nehemiah 7:8Nehemiah 10:14

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II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17II Kings 1:10I Chronicles 5:7Nehemiah 7:5

(4) Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
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Ezra 2:6Nehemiah 7:11Nehemiah 10:14

(5) Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
(6) Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
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Ezra 2:15Nehemiah 7:20Nehemiah 10:16

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II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17II Kings 1:10I Samuel 19:7

(7) And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
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Ezra 2:7Ezra 2:31Nehemiah 7:12Nehemiah 7:34

(8) And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
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Ezra 2:4Nehemiah 7:9Nehemiah 11:4

(9) Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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Ezra 2:6Nehemiah 7:11

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I Kings 2:28

(10) And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
(11) And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
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Ezra 2:11Ezra 10:28Nehemiah 7:16

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Nehemiah 7:16II Chronicles 2:10Nehemiah 11:12I Kings 6:20II Chronicles 29:1Ezra 2:11

(12) And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
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Ezra 2:12Nehemiah 7:17

(13) And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
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Ezra 2:13Nehemiah 7:18

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I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Numbers 3:43

(14) Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
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Ezra 2:14Nehemiah 7:19Nehemiah 10:12

(15) And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
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Psalms 137:1Ezekiel 1:1Ezekiel 3:15Acts 16:13Ezra 8:21Ezra 8:31Ezra 8:2Ezra 7:7Ezra 7:24

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2

(16) Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
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Ezra 8:13Ezra 10:21Ezra 10:39Ezra 8:18I Kings 3:11I Chronicles 12:32I Chronicles 26:14II Chronicles 2:12Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 20:5Proverbs 28:2Daniel 2:21

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Jeremiah 36:12II Kings 24:8Jeremiah 26:22Jeremiah 36:25

(17) And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
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Exodus 4:15Deuteronomy 18:18II Samuel 14:3II Samuel 14:19Jeremiah 1:9Jeremiah 15:19Ezra 2:43Ezra 2:58Ezra 7:7Numbers 8:22Numbers 8:23Numbers 8:24

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Ezra 6:14Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(18) And 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; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;
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Ezra 8:22Ezra 7:28Nehemiah 2:8Proverbs 3:6Ezra 8:16Proverbs 24:3Jeremiah 3:15Daniel 1:20I Corinthians 14:20Numbers 3:20I Chronicles 6:19Ezra 8:24

(19) And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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Nehemiah 3:17Nehemiah 10:11I Chronicles 6:1I Chronicles 6:16I Chronicles 6:19

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II Chronicles 2:10I Kings 6:20Ezekiel 45:12

(20) Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
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Ezra 8:17Ezra 2:43Ezra 7:7I Chronicles 9:2Philippians 4:3

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II Chronicles 31:2Ezra 3:8II Chronicles 2:10I Chronicles 28:21Nehemiah 11:21I Samuel 29:4

(21) Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
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Judges 20:26I Samuel 7:6II Chronicles 20:3Joel 1:14Joel 2:12Joel 2:13Joel 2:14Joel 2:15Joel 2:16Joel 2:17Joel 2:18Jonah 3:5

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Zechariah 8:19Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2Joshua 17:9

(22) For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
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I Corinthians 9:15II Corinthians 7:14Ezra 7:6Ezra 7:9Ezra 7:28I Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 16:9Psalms 33:18Psalms 33:19Psalms 34:15Psalms 34:22Isaiah 3:10

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II Chronicles 14:11II Chronicles 25:8II Chronicles 26:13Isaiah 31:1Genesis 9:5Luke 10:19

(23) So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
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Nehemiah 9:1Esther 4:16Daniel 9:3Luke 2:37Acts 10:30Jeremiah 29:12Jeremiah 29:13Jeremiah 33:3Jeremiah 50:4Jeremiah 50:5Ezra 8:31Deuteronomy 4:29

(24) Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
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Ezra 8:18Ezra 8:19

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Numbers 7:87Numbers 7:84Revelation 7:5Revelation 7:6Revelation 7:7Revelation 7:8

(25) And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
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Ezra 8:33Ezra 1:8II Corinthians 8:20II Corinthians 8:21Philippians 4:8Ezra 7:15Ezra 7:16

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II Chronicles 24:14Numbers 7:85II Samuel 8:10I Kings 10:25II Kings 12:13II Chronicles 9:24

(26) I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
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I Chronicles 29:7Matthew 25:20Matthew 25:22Exodus 38:27II Kings 5:23II Kings 18:14

(27) Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
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Lamentations 4:2

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Revelation 18:12II Chronicles 2:10I Kings 6:20II Chronicles 3:8Ezekiel 45:12Haggai 2:16

(28) And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
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Leviticus 21:6Leviticus 21:7Leviticus 21:8Deuteronomy 33:8Isaiah 52:11Ezra 1:7Ezra 1:8Ezra 1:9Ezra 1:10Ezra 1:11Leviticus 22:2Leviticus 22:3

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II Samuel 8:10II Kings 12:13II Chronicles 24:14Exodus 38:17Numbers 7:85I Kings 10:21

(29) Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
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I Chronicles 26:20I Chronicles 26:21I Chronicles 26:22I Chronicles 26:23I Chronicles 26:24I Chronicles 26:25I Chronicles 26:26Mark 13:34Mark 13:35Acts 20:31II Timothy 4:5Ezra 8:33

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Nehemiah 10:38Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:37Nehemiah 12:44Ezekiel 42:13

(30) So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.
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Ezra 8:22I Chronicles 29:2I Chronicles 29:3Psalms 122:9Isaiah 60:13

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II Samuel 8:10II Kings 12:13I Chronicles 28:14I Chronicles 28:15I Chronicles 28:17II Chronicles 24:14

(31) Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
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Ezra 8:15Ezra 8:21Ezra 8:22Ezra 7:9Ezra 7:28Job 5:19Job 5:20Job 5:21Job 5:22Job 5:23Job 5:24Psalms 91:9

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Esther 3:7Ezekiel 32:1Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Deuteronomy 2:36

(32) And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
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Ezra 7:8Ezra 7:9Nehemiah 2:11

(33) Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
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Ezra 8:26Ezra 8:30I Chronicles 28:14I Chronicles 28:15I Chronicles 28:16I Chronicles 28:17I Chronicles 28:18II Corinthians 8:20II Corinthians 8:21Nehemiah 10:5Nehemiah 3:4Nehemiah 8:7

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Numbers 7:85II Samuel 8:10II Kings 12:13II Chronicles 24:14Ezra 8:26II Kings 6:25

(34) By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
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I Chronicles 28:15Genesis 24:22II Samuel 21:16I Chronicles 28:14I Chronicles 28:17Revelation 13:18

(35) Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
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Leviticus 1:1Leviticus 1:2Leviticus 1:3Leviticus 1:4Leviticus 1:5Leviticus 1:6Leviticus 1:7II Chronicles 29:31II Chronicles 29:32Psalms 66:10Psalms 66:11Psalms 66:12

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Numbers 7:87Ezra 6:17I Kings 8:64Numbers 7:84Revelation 7:5Revelation 7:6

(36) And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
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Ezra 7:21Ezra 7:22Ezra 7:23Ezra 7:24Ezra 4:7Ezra 4:8Ezra 4:9Ezra 4:10Ezra 4:11Ezra 4:12Ezra 4:13Ezra 4:14

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Esther 3:12Esther 8:8Esther 3:3Nehemiah 2:9I Kings 1:9I Kings 16:18

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