Ezra 8:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I told them

Jeremiah 15:19

The nethinims

Ezra 2:43

Ezra 7:7

Ministers

Bible References

I told them

You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.

The nethinims

The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,

And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

Ministers

And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you--